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Unreviewed new articles on English Wikipedia should be marked as noindex
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Back in 2012, the English Wikipedia community passed an RFC to noindex any new pages that had not been reviewed by the community (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/NOINDEX). This was actually implemented within the PageTriage extension, but then disabled due to T39349. It looks like T39349 is now fixed, so we should re-enable this feature.

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kaldari renamed this task from Unreviewed articles on English Wikipedia should be marked as noindex to Unreviewed new articles on English Wikipedia should be marked as noindex.Oct 6 2016, 6:24 AM
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Change 314495 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kaldari):
Re-enable noindexing of pages under certain conditions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/314495

kaldari triaged this task as High priority.
kaldari set the point value for this task to 3.
kaldari moved this task from Ready to Needs Review/Feedback on the Community-Tech-Sprint board.

Change 314495 merged by jenkins-bot:
Re-enable noindexing of pages under certain conditions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/314495

Change 314643 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope):
Enable $wgPageTriageNoIndexUnreviewedNewArticles on all wikis that have PageTriage

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/314643

Change 314643 merged by jenkins-bot:
Enable $wgPageTriageNoIndexUnreviewedNewArticles on all wikis that have PageTriage

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/314643

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2016-10-11T18:20:03Z] <thcipriani@mira> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: SWAT: [[gerrit:314643|Enable $wgPageTriageNoIndexUnreviewedNewArticles on all wikis that have PageTriage (T147544)]] PART I (duration: 00m 50s)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2016-10-11T18:40:35Z] <thcipriani@mira> Synchronized wmf-config/CommonSettings.php: SWAT: [[gerrit:314643|Enable $wgPageTriageNoIndexUnreviewedNewArticles on all wikis that have PageTriage (T147544)]] PART II (duration: 00m 52s)

Checked in betalabs

  • a newly created page (if a subject to be patrolled) has the following added
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>
  • with that meta tag, the page cannot be found via google search, but it's found with wikipedia search (internal)
  • after the page was patrolled (reviewed via Special:NewPagesFeed), the meta tag gets removed.