Looks like a bug Looking closely this meta tag is present in user pages: <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">
but not present in that particular sub page [1]. I haven't had time to investigate further but please raise a phabricator task. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nobleeagle/India_as_an_emerging_superpower On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > In this thread > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Userpage_drafts_shown_in_search_engines>, > there was a discussion about indexing of user space by search engines. In a > nutshell, user space pages are not subject to content policies so that > users can write drafts freely, and having those pages indexed by search > engines like Google is viewed as problematic since those pages can seem > fairly official. > > I seem to recall that it was not the default in the past that user pages > were indexed by search engines. I'm trying to figure out if there's some > other cause for this that's happened recently, because I'd prefer to avoid > piling hacks on and not address the root issue. > > Does anyone know of anything that's changed recently that might've changed > the way that search engines index user space? > > Thanks, > Dan > > -- > Dan Garry > Product Manager, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
