[Bug 6545] Mark redlinks with rel=nofollow
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6545 Chad H. innocentkil...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added CC||innocentkil...@gmail.com Status|REOPENED|RESOLVED Resolution||WONTFIX --- Comment #15 from Chad H. innocentkil...@gmail.com 2010-01-16 14:38:26 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9) Is this still of interest now that bug 2585 has been fixed? Bug 2585 got reverted, but that's neither here nor there. These two bugs can be implemented independently of another. Although, solving that is another way of getting at the desired result: not having the bot index the edit page. (In reply to comment #8) Ok, I guess there are two elements to the decision of accepting this patch or not. It is mainly redundant so in some cases might add a few bytes to a page increasing bandwidth and page load times, on the other hand some search engines might do what the tag says on the front of it rather than what is intended. Also some search engines may not understand the meta tags, having both doesn't appear to cause any harm. But it doesn't really have any added benefit. It just adds more bytes to the page. We already serve noindex,nofollow on the edit page itself, so serving it along with the link to the edit page would be redundant at best. As Rob pointed out in comment #5, the tag doesn't tell the bot to not follow the link. In all likelihood, the bot is probably loading the link anyway unless you're blocking it somewhere else; a noted workaround from the OP anyway. WONTFIX. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 6545] Mark redlinks with rel=nofollow
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6545 mac.me...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added CC||mac.me...@gmail.com Status|REOPENED|RESOLVED Resolution||DUPLICATE --- Comment #11 from mac.me...@gmail.com 2009-10-02 18:52:03 UTC --- *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2585 *** -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 6545] Mark redlinks with rel=nofollow
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6545 Robert Leverington rob...@rhl.me.uk changed: What|Removed |Added Status|RESOLVED|REOPENED Resolution|DUPLICATE | --- Comment #12 from Robert Leverington rob...@rhl.me.uk 2009-10-02 18:58:22 UTC --- This is not a duplicate. Resolution should be WONTFIX if it is not going to be implemented, and made explicitly by someone with the relevant jurisdiction. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 6545] Mark redlinks with rel=nofollow
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6545 --- Comment #13 from mac.me...@gmail.com 2009-10-02 19:03:14 UTC --- Is it not a duplicate? As far as I can tell, the bug opener wanted to block search engines from crawling through redlinked URLs. As Rob Church says above, rel=nofollow does not do this. Bug 2585 makes redlinks a 404, effectively stopping search spiders. To me, that sounds like it fixes the problem. And btw, I am just as entitled as anyone to share my opinion here. There are different levels of authority on-wiki, yes (admin, crat, etc.) but this is a open forum for discussion, and I am permitted to form my own opinion. If I was incorrect marking it as a duplicate, I'm sorry and I accept that blame, but I dislike the implication that I am not allowed to mark it as such. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 6545] Mark redlinks with rel=nofollow
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6545 --- Comment #14 from Robert Leverington rob...@rhl.me.uk 2009-10-02 19:33:46 UTC --- Sorry, that perception was not intentional; generally marking bugs as WONTFIX is done only be senior developers, and I wanted to make that clear. In any case this bug was about the specific implementation of the desired feature, rather than the result. For what it's worth I would support closing this bug as WONTFIX at this point. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 6545] Mark redlinks with rel=nofollow
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6545 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org changed: What|Removed |Added CC||ekomp...@gmail.com --- Comment #10 from Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org 2009-06-22 23:49:18 UTC --- *** Bug 19065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
