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robots.txt is the filename used for implementing the Robots Exclusion Protocol, a standard used by websites to indicate to visiting web crawlers and other web robots ...
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# robots.txt for http://www.wikipedia.org/ and friends # # Please note: There are a lot of pages on this site, and there are # some misbehaved spiders out there that ...
MediaWiki:Robots.txt forbids analytic tools from visiting sensitive or potentially sensitive types of pages, primarily in the Wikipedia namespace – for example deletion debates. A side effect of not visiting is normally that a page cannot be indexed. Where possible, you should in addition use __NOINDEX__ for those pages.
Robots.txt file – specifies search engines that are not allowed to crawl all or part of Wikipedia, as well as pages/namespaces that are not to be indexed by any search engine; MediaWiki:Robots.txt – direct editing of robots.txt; Wikipedia:Talk pages not indexed by Google (feature request) Wikipedia:Requests for comment/NOINDEX; Tools:
MediaWiki:Robots.txt provides the Robots.txt file for English Wikipedia, telling search engines not to index the specified pages. See the documentation of {{ NOINDEX }} for a survey of noindexing methods.
The organization's crawlers respect nofollow and robots.txt policies. Open source code for processing Common Crawl's data set is publicly available. The Common Crawl dataset includes copyrighted work and is distributed from the US under fair use claims.
The use of robots.txt for this purpose is essentially a hack that led to unintended consequences, for example domains that are hijacked or change ownership with the new domain owner adding a robots.txt which triggers archive providers to block the display of archives from the original site, even though the old site never had a robots.txt.