Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Happy-melon <[email protected]> wrote: >> If people think it would be >> better as a special page we'd make >> http://foo.example.com/w/index.php?title=Bar&action=edit a hard redirect to >> Special:Edit/Bar; that has the significant advantage of being able to be >> formed as an internal link. > > I've always thought this was the best way to do things. Be careful > about overusing short URLs, though -- the only reason robots don't > spider /w/index.php?title=Foo&action=edit right now is because it > starts with /w/ instead of /wiki/.
I can't think of a reason that any of the Special namespace needs to be indexed. Most of it is already marked noindex in the meta tags, as far as I remember. Additional explicit exclusion in a robots.txt file is always a good idea, though. Some auto-generation of a robots.txt file might be nice (WordPress does this). It's easy enough to exclude based on the prefix "Special:", but it's the localizations that ruin everything. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
