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
Wikipedia's 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/...ser+queerrightsbecomes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/...ser+queerrightsThis 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:
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Kelly+Martin&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Snowspinner&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Tony+Sidaway&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Slimvirgin&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=protect&user=Slimvirgin&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Felonius_monk&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=protect&user=Felonius_monk&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Anonymous_editor&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=protect&user=Anonymous_editor&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=FayssalF&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=protect&user=FayssalF&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Mackensen&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Grenavitar&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Drini&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=MarkSweep&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Improv&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Interiot&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=Physchim62&page=en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=&page=Template:User+atheismen.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=&page=Template:User+queerrightsWould become this list:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Kelly_Martinen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Snowspinneren.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Tony_Sidawayen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Slimvirginen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/protect?user=Slimvirginen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Felonius_monken.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/protect?user=Felonius_monken.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Anonymous_editoren.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/protect?user=Anonymous_editoren.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=FayssalFen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/protect?user=FayssalFen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Doc_glasgowen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Mackensenen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Drinien.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Grenavitaren.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Interioten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Improven.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete?user=Physchim62en.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 forumPost by Blu Aardvark on Feb 25, 2006, 1:31amQUOTE
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"
When linking to stuff on Wikipedia you want public
