[OSM-dev] Google doesn't find new wiki urls

[Tom Hughes]

Erik Johansson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> wrote:
>> Somebody just asked on the German mailing list about Google not finding
>> pages from our wiki any more. I just checked this and it does find some,
>> but they are all still ../index.php/.. URLs. Looking at the robots.txt and
>> the Sitemap, it should find the new ../wiki/.. URLs, but maybe something
>> is wrong somewhere.
>>
> 
> 
> +1  It's impossible to find stuff on the wiki with google
> 
> http://www.google.se/search?&q=site%3Awiki.openstreetmap.org+-inurl%3Aindex+-inurl%3Aimages
> 
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1496

The googlebot is probably blocked as bots tend to kill the wiki due to 
the extreme crapness of mediawiki.

Tom

-- 
Tom Hughes (tom at compton.nu)
http://www.compton.nu/