https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44232
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Bug ID: 44232
Summary: "noindex" should be set on cross-wiki links
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Parser
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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Classification: Unclassified
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It appears that cross-wiki links are getting indexed by Google. But Google
should be paying attention to them at the wiki where they live, not the wiki
from which they are linked.
For instance, I left an interwiki link on an English Wikipedia user talk
page[1], to a Wikisource page. The Google results are showing this as a
Wikipedia page, rather than a Wikisource page. (It goes to the right place, but
is not listing Wikisource as the destination.)
I think the best thing would be for interwiki links to have the "noindex" set,
but not "nofollow" -- that is, search engine spiders would correctly understand
that the destination page is the proper URL to index, not the outgoing link.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Valfontis/Archive_16#Airlie (see the
third link under the "Airlie" section)
[2]
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_narrow_gauge_railroad_in_the_Willamette_Valley
[3]
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=history+of+the+narrow+gauge+railroad&oq=history+of+the+narrow+gauge+railroad&sugexp=chrome,mod=19&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&client=ubuntu&hs=pxr&tbo=d&channel=cs&sclient=psy-ab&q=history+of+the+narrow+gauge+railroad+in+the+willamette&oq=history+of+the+narrow+gauge+railroad+in+the+willamette&gs_l=serp.3...547990.554978.1.555182.30.17.0.0.0.0.344.522.0j1j0j1.2.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.0gXsg9BVqGw&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.41248874,d.cGE&fp=6ff34c8bbab788b7&biw=1280&bih=667
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