Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E1A6D76A for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:33:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 17159 invoked by uid 500); 22 Oct 2012 09:33:37 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 17084 invoked by uid 500); 22 Oct 2012 09:33:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ooo-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 17058 invoked by uid 99); 22 Oct 2012 09:33:36 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:33:36 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.3 required=5.0 tests=HK_RANDOM_ENVFROM,HK_RANDOM_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [193.95.142.37] (HELO mail05.mail.esat.net) (193.95.142.37) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:33:30 +0000 Received: from (100AkerWood) [109.77.9.218] by mail05.mail.esat.net with smtp id 1TQENe-0007r1-R0; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:33:06 +0100 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:33:06 +0100 From: Rory O'Farrell To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Wiki robots.txt Message-Id: <20121022103306.f578c1f84895053acdf28807@iol.ie> In-Reply-To: <508511EE.6050307@apache.org> References: <5083F500.5060306@mail.imacat.idv.tw> <508511EE.6050307@apache.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:29:18 +0200 Herbert Duerr wrote: > On 21.10.2012 15:13, imacat wrote: > > I found the following rule in the robots.txt of our wiki: > > > > User-Agent: * > > Disallow: / > > > > Does any know if there is any special reason why it is set so? Does > > any have any reason to keep it? I'm thinking of removing this rule. > > +1, blocking all search robots makes no sense. > Google etc. are also much more successful in finding relevant results to > non-trivial searches. The wiki-builtin search had many problems [1], > many of which are fixed in the meantime though. > > [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search_issues > > Herbert > +1 -- Rory O'Farrell