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Disable search engine indexing (via noindex) in some namespaces of Icelandic Wikipedia
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Description

Requesting the following addition to the robots policies of the Icelandic Wikipedia:

$wgNamespaceRobotPolicies = array(
  NS_TALK => 'noindex',
  NS_USER => 'noindex',
  NS_USER_TALK => 'noindex',
  NS_PROJECT_TALK => 'noindex',
  NS_FILE_TALK => 'noindex',
  NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK => 'noindex',
  NS_TEMPLATE_TALK => 'noindex',
  NS_HELP_TALK => 'noindex',
  NS_CATEGORY_TALK => 'noindex',
);

That is to say, exclude pages in userspace and talk pages from indexing. Users should still be allowed to control userspace indexing so no change to $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl is requested.

Link to community discussion (June 2019) (we're not a large community, User:Snaevar, the only other technical editor, can be seen there supporting).

Event Timeline

Aklapper renamed this task from Search engine indexing on the Icelandic Wikipedia to Disable search engine indexing (via noindex) in some namespaces of Icelandic Wikipedia.Aug 26 2019, 9:23 AM

Change 532771 had a related patch set uploaded (by Zoranzoki21; owner: Zoranzoki21):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Disable search engine indexing in some namespaces of Icelandic Wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/532771

Change 532771 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Disable search engine indexing in some namespaces of Icelandic Wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/532771

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2019-08-28T12:01:31Z] <urbanecm@deploy1001> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: SWAT: 34f1552: Disable search engine indexing in some namespaces of Icelandic Wikipedia (T231179) (duration: 00m 54s)