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Bug 49130 - Search engines should not index NS_MEDIAWIKI pages where no local page exists
Search engines should not index NS_MEDIAWIKI pages where no local page exists
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
1.22.0
All All
: Low minor (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2013-06-04 15:02 UTC by Krinkle
Modified: 2013-09-17 08:09 UTC (History)
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Description Krinkle 2013-06-04 15:02:36 UTC 
When searching for "wgHandheldForIPhone"[1] I found lots of results from random wikis (potentially every public wiki in the world).

This is because NS_MEDIAWIKI pages are both HTTP 200 and indexable by default, regardless of whether this page exists.

It should probably be 404 if the page doesn't exist (even if it is a message that core does provide internally) because the page does in fact not exist.

Or alternatively, if there are use cases for it being HTTP 200, perhaps it should be robots=noindex?

For example http://www.ukbankingwiki.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Configure-setting-wgHandheldForIPhone was one of the first 10 results for the query[1] eventough the page does not exist (e.g. no history[2]_



[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=wgHandheldForIPhone
[2] http://www.ukbankingwiki.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Configure-setting-wgHandheldForIPhone?action=history
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