On 3/22/2011 7:53 AM, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hey,
On 03/22/2011 12:46 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
could you remove robots.txt from old-en.opensuse.org?
There are valuable data in the wiki and as the wiki wasn't ported to the new one in a reasonable time, it should definitely be indexed by search engines.
Otherwise people repeatedly fail to find the info and we have to point them to that manually.
How about you tell us what you are missing instead? :)
Henne
That approach has already failed too badly. The brokenness is the rule not the exception. Sure go ahead and fix one more broken link. It's better than leaving it broken. But who cares any more? Users of those links have already been burned and who care simply do not commit any value to this wiki any more and do not link to it any more in any content they actively manage or write new. Oh suckers still do but of what value is that? That's one good thing the migration did, it gave a dose of common sense to people who got too lax and trusting. The countless random users that encounter dead links in the countless random places they exist, just chalk it up to the general crappiness of the web. They don't report them, nor should they have to, even in that fraction of situations where they could. Also, the point of the robots.txt is (hopfully) just to prevent the caching of stale incorrect info. old-en is no longer being updated so what's the problem? And I see from other responses that you are convinced the you're reasonable and everyone else is unreasonable for being outraged about unknowable countless broken links to what was considered reference material. That exactly proves the point even further right from your own lips better than anything I could say. This wiki is to be avoided like the plague. Not only was a disaster committed, the curators aren't even apologetic about it. whether they don't understand or don't care or don't agree it's a big deal, none of those are excusable or tolerable. Way to go. From one clever dick to another, dude. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org