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Apr 27, 2008, 12:01 PM
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Re: Request to allow Google to search list archives again
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absolutely no. G already indexes much too many of the incidental
discussions at WP.
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb [at] yahoo> wrote:
> I support this especially as url's to old messages are not stable. An effective search is greatly needed. I have spent a long time on occasion for searching for things I am certain exist and came up with nothing.
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> Birgitte SB
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> --- On Sun, 4/27/08, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler [at] gmail> wrote:
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> > From: Michael Bimmler <mbimmler [at] gmail>
> > Subject: [Foundation-l] Request to allow Google to search list archives again
> > To: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l [at] lists>
> > Cc: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l [at] lists>
> > Date: Sunday, April 27, 2008, 12:30 PM
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> > [courtesy copy to foundation-l, though I suggest that
> > discussion, if any, be
> > centralised on wikitech-l]
> >
> > Hi all,
> > the search index for the mailinglist archives was last
> > rebuilt in January.
> > Now, after having made quite a few queries about this here
> > and at other
> > places, I learnt (and obviously had to accept) that
> > rebuilding the search
> > index is quite a resources-consuming process which resulted
> > in crashes.
> >
> > To put it bluntly, I dare suggest from a non-technical POV
> > that the "htdig"
> > (that's the name, isn't it?) experiment has failed.
> > If we can only update
> > our search index every 6 months or so, it is pointless to
> > have it.
> >
> > Instead, I suggest that
> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/robots.txt be modified as
> > to allow Google (and other search engines) to crawl
> > /pipermail/ again. I do
> > not really see the privacy issues of this, nabble, gmane
> > etc. are
> > google-searchable as well and I really don't see the
> > point in barring Google
> > from our own archive.
> >
> > If I am very honest, I do not even remember anymore, why we
> > decided to bar
> > Google from http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail.
> > Was it due to privacy concerns? If so, which, and why is
> > lists.wikimedia.orgas an archive different from
> > Nabble/Gmane?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > --
> > Michael Bimmler
> > mbimmler [at] gmail
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