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No-indexing on ur-wiki
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Description

For quite a long time, recent articles created on ur-wiki start immediately appearing on search engines such as Google, despite not having been marked as patrolled. It is problematic because it pushes promotional/and similar pages to search engines as quickly as possible.

The default of no-indexing until 90+ days does not appear to be respected here. User-page indexing is also an issue. I'd appreciate if the technicals folks here can help with this. Glad to help if any community consensus is required.

Event Timeline

Noindexing unpatrolled articles is something done by PageTriage, which is only installed on enwiki right now. There's no MediaWiki core default rules about noindexing.

I don't see a bug but expected behavior given the current configuration, thus closing. For general technical help, please refer to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech . To request configuration changes, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes . Thanks.