Wikipedia talk:Search Engine NOCACHE by default proposal

Latest comment: 15 years ago by Thivierr in topic A better idea

Open I guess

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Since people seem to want it open. rootology (C)(T) 08:12, 18 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Refactor

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I have remove the poll to allow discussion. People, we need to chew on things not vote, otherwise we get polarisation without discussion. This issue is new to a lot of folks, so let's give it time. If we must poll, we can do it in a few days/weeks.--Scott Mac (Doc) 09:24, 18 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Sarcasm?

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I'm thinking that the description of Obama's article as being a "slightly prominent BLP article" is meant to be sarcasm? MickMacNee (talk) 10:46, 18 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Understatement is a standard component of humor. --Carnildo (talk) 22:12, 18 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
Our chief weapon is understatement. Hyperbole and understatement. Understatement and hyperbole. Our two weapons are hyperbole and understatement... and ruthless efficiency. rootology (C)(T) 23:00, 18 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Would this actually work?

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Note that NOCACHE'd stuff still has a bit of text from the page on the search results page, there's just no cached version link. --Random832 (contribs) 13:55, 18 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

I understood every word you said. Unfortunately that was every individual word. I failed when I tried it as a sentence. Now obviously it's not you, it's me but could you please have another try? Fiddle Faddle (talk) 23:07, 18 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Question

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So would this stop google from indexing Wikipedia totally? Bsimmons666 (talk) 16:33, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

No Fiddle Faddle (talk) 16:39, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
So what's it do than? Bsimmons666 (talk) 18:58, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
It prevents, if implemented, Google from saving in its cache a copy of the page. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 19:23, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
Ahh, thanks. Bsimmons666 (talk) 20:53, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
You're welcome. Many people have misunderstood this completely. You asked. They did not always. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 21:02, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

A better idea

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Why can't we just trigger some sort of warning to come up on the top like we do for revision view on the main site? Like force a message on the top saying something like:

ViperSnake151 15:27, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Because that would be "fooling search engines" in some way.
The right idea is better anti-vandalisim detection and correction. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 16:06, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

The thing, Google already has a warning on cache pages, that serves the same purpose. --Rob (talk) 18:49, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Reply