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Sadly very few authors seem to acknowledge or even know that github wiki pages are not indexed by search engines so if it wasn't for third-party sites like gith

by j1elo 5y ago

Sadly very few authors seem to acknowledge or even know that github wiki pages are not indexed by search engines so if it wasn't for third-party sites like github-wiki-see.page (which could stop working at any time) their contents would be undiscoverable by the very same people they are usually intended...

oblio 5y ago
What? That's crazy! Does Github block indexing?
- beembeem 5y ago
  https://github.com/robots.txt https://github.com/robots.txt I don't see anything here about wiki specifically but maybe one of the rules hits wiki pages?
  - crazysim 5y ago
    They've moved from robots.txt to blocking by headers.
- bckygldstn 5y ago
  There's more details on https://github-wiki-see.page/ https://github-wiki-see.page/ and https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/4992#discussioncomment-1448177 https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/4992#discussi... > we have also introduced an x-robots-tag: none in the http response header of Wiki pages > Abusive behavior in Wikis had a negative impact on our search engine ranking > GitHub is currently permitting a select criteria of GitHub Wikis to be indexed