renderZeroRatedRedirect URLs being indexed with search engines
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	• Mattflaschen-WMF
	Jun 4 2014, 7:57 PM

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URLs with renderZeroRatedRedirect are being indexed by search engines (https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Aindex.php+wikipedia#q=inurl:index.php+site:en.wikipedia.org). I think there should be a meta noindex for these cases.

Also, note that the usage of returnto in URLs like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:History_of_Hong_Kong?renderZeroRatedRedirect=true&returnto=%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DWikipedia%3AWikiProject_Hong_Kong%2Fto_do%26action%3Dedit does not match the standard usage of returnto on MediaWiki sites (a page name).

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Reference: bz66136

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• Mattflaschen-WMF created this task.Jun 4 2014, 7:57 PM

This is a more general issue - noone except users that come from the Zero partners should even see those links. The only possible exception is if a user manually copies a wiki link and posts it somewhere. To prevent that, I think we should do a JS rewrite of all "redirect" links to direct links. Redirect links need to stay in the original HTML because of no-script devices.

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