https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18883
Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> changed:
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CC| |tstarl...@wikimedia.org
Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |WONTFIX
--- Comment #5 from Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> 2009-05-25 01:55:15
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Redirects may dilute pagerank slightly, but they increase relevance, because
they introduce keywords from the redirect title into the URL and <title>
element, both locations which Google gives a high weight. You could argue that
keyword stuffing via multiple near-identical pages is an abuse of the search
engines, but they don't seem to have objected so far despite the fact that
we've always done this. And Wikipedia doesn't do too badly in the search
engines, generally speaking.
I don't know why you think URL parameters or cookies or XVO are relevant, the
only reasonable solution anyone's come up with in the past is to use the
Referer header. That's not something we're interested in doing.
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