https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42867
--- Comment #3 from Richard Guk <[email protected]> --- MZMcBride has pointed out elsewhere (bug 43935 comment 4) that the reported "Search engine status" corresponds to the <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" /> tag controlled by namespace settings or the __NOINDEX__ page behavior switch. That explains the cause of this bug: replacing "action=info" with "action=view" in each request returns a wikipage that contains the noindex meta tag IF AND ONLY IF "Not indexable" is shown as the search engine status on the corresponding "action=info" page. However, this behavior is still inappropriate, because the user expects to see information about the canonical page, regardless of which URL entry point or parameters are used to identify it. For example, "Redirects to this page" would be zero if the information related to the URL, but it is instead always reports the number of redirects to the canonical page, as expected. Compare, for example: Ex 7: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith&action=info -> Search engine status: "Indexable" -> Number of page watchers: "276" -> Redirects to this page: "30" Ex 8: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=502959&action=info -> Search engine status: "Not indexable" (bug!) -> Number of page watchers: "276" -> Redirects to this page: "30" The search engine status is the only info reported inconsistently. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
