On 10/03/13 15:50, Waldir Pimenta wrote: > The motivation for the tool came from a post by Niklas [1], specifically > the section "Coping with the proliferation of tools within your community". > In the comments section, Nemo announced his initiative to create a custom > google search to fit at least some of the requirements presented in that > section, and I've offered to help him tweak it further. The URL list is > still incomplete and can be customized by editing the page > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_technical_search (syncing with the > actual engine still will have to happen by hand, but should be quick).
I'm not convinced about [[en:MediaWiki_talk:*]] and [[en:Template_talk:*]], they can bring quite a bit of noise (similarly for [[en:Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)]]). I see how interesting discussions could be happening there, though. > Besides feedback on whether the engine works as you'd expect, I would like > to start some discussion about the ability for Google's bots to crawl some > of the resources that are currently included in the URL filters, but return > no results. For example, the IRC logs at bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/. > Some workarounds are used (e.g. using github for code search since gitweb > isn't crawlable) but that isn't possible for all resources. What can we do > to improve the situation? Do we really want Google to index them? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
