Mark api.php HTML doc pages as robots noindex, nofollow
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	• MZMcBride
	Oct 24 2018, 3:54 AM

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Pages such as https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=options&reset=&token=123ABC should probably contain this HTML to discourage search engine indexing:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>

We already do this for Special pages.

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	API: Set robots noindex,nofollow on HTML output	mediawiki/core	REL1_32	+2 -0
	API: Set robots noindex,nofollow on HTML output	mediawiki/core	master	+2 -0

I note that Wikimedia sites already have Disallow: /w/ in their robots.txt, but this could benefit third parties.

Change 469616 had a related patch set uploaded (by Anomie; owner: Anomie):
[mediawiki/core@master] API: Set robots noindex,nofollow on HTML output

Change 469616 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] API: Set robots noindex,nofollow on HTML output

Legoktm closed this task as Resolved.Oct 27 2018, 6:01 AM

Legoktm assigned this task to Anomie.

Change 470302 had a related patch set uploaded (by Paladox; owner: Anomie):
[mediawiki/core@REL1_32] API: Set robots noindex,nofollow on HTML output

Change 470302 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@REL1_32] API: Set robots noindex,nofollow on HTML output