On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote: > When the Italians did their blackout, Google asked us to block them > (!) from bits.wm.o (our JS/CSS domain), which in the specific case of > the Italian blackout had the effect of not honoring the blackout at > all. > > I'm guessing we'd probably have to block search engines from enwiki > entirely to avoid the blackout screwing things up, yeah.
It seems Google has advised to serve a 503 (Service unavailable) HTTP code during blackouts to avoid them influencing their search engine. -- André Engels, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
