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Wikis can now be indexed by search engines. #10836
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Thanks! I'll get this merged ASAP.
Oof, I need to abort this PR: community/community#4992 (comment) I didn't know you could block robots with headers. edit: though i guessed you could, but it wasn't obvious that they replaced the mechanism with this method. |
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Though, thanks for reviewing the change anyway docs team. |
Why:
community/community#4992 (comment)
https://github.com/robots.txt no longer contains an entry preventing crawlers from crawling GitHub Wikis. Compare to this snapshot from Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210403000950/github.com/robots.txt
What's being changed:
Remove no longer accurate statement that came from #5054.
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