Seems like wikimedia lists (which are mostly technical, about a wide range of software products) cannot be equated with the wikipedia (website) experience.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > "Search is central to the Wikipedia experience – both as a way of > reaching the website as well as discovering content on Wikipedia." > > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/26/search-and-wikipedia/ > > Alas, Search is not central for these lists, > > $ GET http://lists.wikimedia.org/robots.txt > # robots.txt for lists.wikimedia.org > # > # Disabled crawling for several lists 2005-11-26 to > # discourage people from complaining about items they > # post on public mailing lists being the first Google > # search result about them. > # > # Disabled for all lists 2006-11-03, now that an internal > # search has been set up using htdig. > # > # Note that list archives remain public. > # > > User-agent: * > Disallow: /pipermail/ > > > Can they at least take that line about hitdg out. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
