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Document that wikis aren't crawled by search engines #4115

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nelsonjchen opened this issue Feb 28, 2021 · 5 comments
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Document that wikis aren't crawled by search engines #4115

nelsonjchen opened this issue Feb 28, 2021 · 5 comments
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What is the current behavior?

Wikis aren't crawled by search engines and that can be surprising to wiki owners, contributors, and readers.

What changes are you suggesting?

Document that wikis aren't crawled by search engines.

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isaacs/github#1683
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It might also be worth documenting that GitHub pages are though as an alternative.

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mnya66 commented Mar 1, 2021

#4129

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👋 @nelsonjchen Thanks so much for opening an issue! You're welcome to open a PR!

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Content on wikis of public repositories are not indexed by search eng…
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…ines and are excluded by `robots.txt`.

github#4115

https://web.archive.org/web/20210403000950/github.com/robots.txt

isaacs/github#1683
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@janiceilene I'll give it a shot.

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Wikis aren't crawled. Suggest GH Pages alternative
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github#4115

isaacs/github#1683

https://web.archive.org/web/20210403000950/github.com/robots.txt
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