On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you everybody for your comments. > Pipermail is fine, if you would only let Google™ index it. > Every mailing list in the world occasionally sees the accidental slip of > the cut and paste finger, and the need for an administrator to remove > the spilled beans, which he should then do. But there is no need to not > let Google index it. When we think search, we think Google. I hate > proprietary software, and RMS http://jidanni.org/comp/index.html#rms is > my idol, but when I think search, I think Google, and will not remember > to use a special search for a special list. I end up reposting this > thread every time I realize I can't find something again due to > someone's arbitrary decision, so this time Cc'd jwales to perhaps get a > second arbitrary opinion. Anyway, you are throwing the baby out with the > bathwater, and as you mention the stuff is mostly in Google indirectly > anyway, why do this crippleware concept of not letting it be indexed? > Also no need to reinvent the wheel of a substitute search engine... OK > to have it alongside Google, but don't block Google. There are a lot of > tools, noindex, nofollow, just don't block entirely. OK, maybe you all > operate on some higher logic. > > P.S., if removing a message will cause renumbering, just leave a stub > message. > > I have an idea, put a message on each subscription page, and post to all > subscribers: "Starting 9.9.2009 all lists will once again be open to > indexing in Google™. This means due to Mediawiki.org ranking, anything > you say can and will end up at the top of search engine results, you > have been warned." > > Tim, good job finding that. I in fact long ago have given up on > searching for anything related to these mailing lists. > > If you have such a huge crush on Google then use Gmail to search these lists. You've already been shown how to import the list archives. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
