robert wrote:

I don't think this is a good idea as there is often useful information in that section and it helps advertise MediaWiki.

ayg wrote:

Google at least is usually pretty clever about noticing and filtering out boilerplate content. I'm not sure this would be particularly useful, on the whole, although it might occasionally help marginally with the one specific engine that supports it.

robchur wrote:

Of course, adding a vendor-specific thing isn't much use for other search engines.

happy.melon.wiki wrote:

Yahoo doesn't seem to have this problem any more; and vendor-specific solutions are not good ideas for problems like this.