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Posted by: Selina

If linking to Wikipedia stuff that you want known, if it's a wikipedia.org/w/whatever link instead of a wikipedia.org/wiki/whatever link, you change it into a /wiki/ link!
/w/ links will not be indexed in any search engines due to http://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt file which tells search engines what pages to ignore or bans some entirely.

Instructions for converting /w/ to /wiki/:

1.
/w/index.php?title=
to
/wiki/

2. If there's a bit called
&type=
replace it with
/

3. At the first
&
change it to a
?

4. (Optional) If there's any bit with an equals sign but just a & straight after, you can safely delete the word before it, the equals sign and the &. Example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=&page=Template:User+queerrights
becomes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?page=Template:User+queerrights
This isn't totally needed, just makes the link shorter.

5. (Optional) Change
+
or spaces to
_
because some stuff doesn't recognise plus signs in URLs

Example, this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Kelly+Martin&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Snowspinner&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Tony+Sidaway&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Slimvirgin&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=protect&user=Slimvirgin&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Felonius_monk&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=protect&user=Felonius_monk&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Anonymous_editor&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=protect&user=Anonymous_editor&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=FayssalF&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=protect&user=FayssalF&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Mackensen&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Grenavitar&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Drini&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=MarkSweep&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Improv&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Interiot&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Physchim62&page=
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=&page=Template:User+atheism
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=&page=Template:User+queerrights

Would become this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Kelly_Martin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Snowspinner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Tony_Sidaway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Slimvirgin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/protect?user=Slimvirgin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Felonius_monk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/protect?user=Felonius_monk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Anonymous_editor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/protect?user=Anonymous_editor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=FayssalF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/protect?user=FayssalF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Doc_glasgow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Mackensen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Drini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Grenavitar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Interiot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Improv
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Physchim62
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=MarkSweep

... which not only has neater shorter links, will now not be ignored by Google and other search engines like it would otherwise.


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Archived post from old forum
Post by Blu Aardvark on Feb 25, 2006, 1:31am

QUOTE
Oh, cute.

I have a lovely little Firefox extension installed that lets me change my reported UserAgent. So I changed it to one of the blacklisted ones (Xenu), and tried to access Wikipedia.

Obviously, I couldn't get through... but the error page was quite interesting.

Is Wikipedia associated with Bomis, or is Wikipedia not associated with Bomis? The reason I ask this, is that I was just informed that "Your cache administrator is wikidown@bomis.com"

Posted by: Random832

QUOTE(Selina @ Thu 2nd March 2006, 2:55am) *

If linking to Wikipedia stuff that you want known, if it's a wikipedia.org/w/whatever link instead of a wikipedia.org/wiki/whatever link, you change it into a /wiki/ link!
/w/ links will not be indexed in any search engines due to http://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt file which tells search engines what pages to ignore or bans some entirely.


The kind of pages that generally get these kind of links generally also have a meta tag in the header with noindex,nofollow, so it's a waste of effort.