Special:Allpages would be a great page to let search engines crawl,
for smaller sites.
Allow me to make the case that one should be able to make
Special:Allpages spiderable. Currently it is _hardwired_
noindex,nofollow, just like the other Special pages,
$wgNamespaceRobotPolicies won't help as it is hardwired in
SpecialSpecialpages.php and even if $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies could be
used, one would like to limit the granularity to just Special:Allpages
and keep the rest of Special: set to noindex,nofollow.
Consider http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/
On the Main page the first link I make is to
http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/index.php?title=Special:Allpages
expecting users and search engines alike to use it.
Sure, other wikis might have a vibrant tree of information. However
http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/ is more of a flat list, with many
categories that don't need pages just to say they represent e.g.,
486.3785 MHz. I like my structure, and users can see all the content,
but search engines can't! Anyways,
http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/index.php?title=Special:Allpages
would have been the perfect way to get it indexed, were it not for
some assumption that all Special pages should be noindex,nofollow. No
I do not wish to maintain my own private version of
SpecialAllpages.php, I'm just giving an observation.
Version: 1.11.x
Severity: enhancement