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Prevent search engines from indexing userspace on cswiki
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There is a consensus on cswiki at the Pod lípou (Village Pump) page, that all pages in "Wikipedista:" (User:) namespace should opt out of being indexed by search engines. Based on enwiki request (T104797) we want to ask for the same.

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@Dvorapa would you know if @Mdann52 is currently working on this issue?

@Dereckson I think he is not working on this. He was assigned to the english issue and Phab just copied him here...

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Okay, thank you for the precision.

@Dereckson Is there any progress on this? Do you know if anybody is working on this?

@Dereckson Is there any progress on this? Do you know if anybody is working on this?

I can prepare a change and schedule for deployment early next week.

@Dereckson Please do, the Czech community is waiting for the change to be done. Thank you.

Dereckson raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.EditedFeb 13 2016, 9:43 PM
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If there is any emergency this week-end to require a page not to be indexed, you can put __NOINDEX__ on the page page, for example at the top.

Change 270556 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dereckson):
Don't index NS_USER on cs.wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/270556

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If there is any emergency this week-end to require a page not to be indexed, you can put __NOINDEX__ on the page page, for example at the top.

Just impatient users

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So we apply the noindex,follow rule to NS_USER_TALK too?

@Dereckson Yes, I was a little bit confused, but cswiki community is for noindexing user talk namespace too. I would undelete my comment if it was possible.

Okay, fine, so the change is ready.

It has been scheduled for deployment Tuesday, February 16 @ 16:00–17:00 UTC (Morning SWAT deploy).

Change 270556 merged by jenkins-bot:
Don't index NS_USER on cs.wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/270556