https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33406
Reedy <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|Remove robots.txt |Remove bugzilla robots.txt --- Comment #3 from Reedy <[email protected]> 2011-12-29 20:07:06 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1) > If you know the bug number, it is quicker to use > http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/4711 to find the bug. > > Fulltext, freeform search would be great, but a lot can be done with advanced > search. > > Given the recent struggles here with vandalism and load, though, increasing > our > problems by introducing bots isn't a high priority right now. True about going directly, if you know, most people wouldn't know that bug 1234 actually is [1] I'm not sure what the issue is with having Google among others index our bugzilla instance. It doesn't open us up to any more spam Looking at [3] it seems we have the default BZ robots.txt installed one A bit of searching around [2] among others, seems to suggest we'll need to install the sitemap extension [4] I also don't think a blanket removal of the robots.txt is a good idea. However, doing by example [5], and updating to something along those lines seems very sane. I'm not sure why the default is so limiting. The sitemap extension also includes an improved robots.txt We can easily get ops to update the robots.txt, because it's a quick fix, but might need to find a bit more time to get ops to actually install the extension, and then presumably possibly a submission to Google webmaster tools [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/1234 [2] http://bugzillatips.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/search-bugzilla-using-google/ [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/robots.txt [4] http://code.google.com/p/bugzilla-sitemap/ [5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/robots.txt -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
