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Wikis can now be indexed by search engines. #10836

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@nelsonjchen nelsonjchen commented Oct 7, 2021

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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

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Remove no longer accurate statement that came from #5054.

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Thanks so much for opening a PR! I'll get this triaged for review ⚡

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Thanks! I'll get this merged ASAP.

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nelsonjchen commented Oct 8, 2021

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.

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