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.
>
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