Hi @Bugreporter, Would you also like to noindex all pages in User Talk namespace?

The local discussion seems have no intention of it.

In T401070#11056236, @Gerges wrote:

Hi @Bugreporter, Would you also like to noindex all pages in User Talk namespace?

In T401070#11091163, @Hamishcn wrote:

The local discussion seems have no intention of it.

In T401070#11056236, @Gerges wrote:

Hi @Bugreporter, Would you also like to noindex all pages in User Talk namespace?

The discussion says "follow the Chinese Wikipedia" (比照百科经验), where all pages in User Talk namespace are also noindexed.

Change #1179242 had a related patch set uploaded (by GergesShamon; author: GergesShamon):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [zhwikisource] Set noindex,nofollow for namespaces User and User Talk

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1179242

To prohibit User and User talk namespaces from being indexed, these two namespaces should also be added to $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl.

Hi @Dringsim, You mean wmgExemptFromUserRobotsControlExtra?

In T401070#11091476, @Gerges wrote:

Hi @Dringsim, You mean wmgExemptFromUserRobotsControlExtra?

Yes.

I'm not good at Chinese and the browser translation is bad, no one mentioned disable the use of magic words __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ in User namespace.

In T401070#11091480, @Gerges wrote:

I'm not good at Chinese and the browser translation is bad, no one mentioned disable the use of magic words __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ in User namespace.

The discussion mentioned “禁止索引” (prohibit index), not just "noindex by default".

Change #1179242 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [zhwikisource] Set noindex,nofollow for namespaces User and User Talk

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1179242

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-08-18T13:04:58Z] <jforrester@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1170339|[metawiki] Set site name to 'Meta-Wiki', not just 'Meta' (T399843)]], [[gerrit:1179655|Enable IP Reveal on Special:AbuseLog]], [[gerrit:1179155|eswiki, commons, wikidatawiki: IP cap lift for wikipedia workshop on 2025-August-23 (T401745)]], [[gerrit:1179242|[zhwikisource] Set noindex,nofollow for namespaces User and User Talk (T401070)]], [[

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