On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > The tabs in the search results page (sorry I didn't mention them in the previous email) can be used to filter results to more relevant content, if desired. I think that might help coping with noise. > 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? > Why log them publicly if we don't make them searchable? Either we're committed to being open or we're not... having a public but hard-to-use archive seems somewhat contradictory to me. --Waldir _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
