FWIW I have also seen many cases of userspace drafts being indexed. Perhaps something to do with the fact that they are always subpages?
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:35 AM Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
