Draft namespace not excluded from indexing on all wikis
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	• Petar.petkovic
	May 16 2019, 6:14 PM

Description

There are many wikis defining Draft namespace, which can always be considered to not be indexed and need "noindex, nofollow".

Wikis that have proper robot policy set up for draft namespace:

zhwiki - T91223
zh_classicalwiki - T163655
kowiki - T92798
hewiki - T86329
fawiki - T92760
enwiki - T59569
srwiki - T248860
hrwiki - T284384
knwiki - T341958

Wikis that need to add "noindex, nofollow" to draft namespace:

etwiki
newiki
urwiki
testwiki?
hiwikiversity?
enwikiversity?

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Don't index pages in draft namespace	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+20 -0

Customize query in gerrit

Related Objects

Mentioned Here: T341958: robots.txt: Disable indexing draft-related pages on knwiki
T284384: Disable indexing user (sub)pages and drafts on Croatian Wikipedia
T248860: Disable indexing user (sub)pages and drafts on Serbian Wikipedia
T163655: Request for adding a draft namespace to zh-classical.wikipedia.org
T59569: Create "Draft" namespace on the English Wikipedia
T86329: hewiki requests to add "Draft" namespace
T91223: Add Draft namespace on zhwiki
T92760: Create "draft" namespace on fa.wikipedia
T92798: Create Draft: Namespace on kowiki

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• Petar.petkovic created this task.May 16 2019, 6:14 PM

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• Petar.petkovic added a project: MediaWiki-Configuration.May 16 2019, 8:54 PM

• Petar.petkovic updated the task description. (Show Details)May 16 2019, 10:55 PM

Change 510784 had a related patch set uploaded (by Petar.petkovic; owner: Petar.petkovic):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Don't index pages in draft namespace

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/510784

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 16 2019, 11:02 PM

• Petar.petkovic moved this task from Backlog to Config - to process on the Serbian-Sites board.May 16 2019, 11:03 PM

• Petar.petkovic removed a project: Chinese-Sites.

Legoktm removed a project: MediaWiki-Configuration.May 16 2019, 11:06 PM

Wouldn't this need informing communities at least, if not gaining explicit consensus?

Urbanecm assigned this task to • Petar.petkovic.May 28 2019, 6:39 PM

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FriedrickMILBarbarossa added a project: Hindi-Sites.May 26 2020, 4:36 PM

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Pppery moved this task from Unsorted to All WMF wikis on the Community-consensus-needed board.May 8 2024, 4:13 PM

Change #510784 abandoned by Hashar:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Don't index pages in draft namespace