Author: fvulto
Description:
The file robots.txt on wikipedia.org contains:
Disallow: /wiki/Special:Randompage Disallow: /wiki/Special%3ARandompage
but the actual link is Special:Random - not Special:Randompage, so
shouldn't robots.txt contain:
Disallow: /wiki/Special:Random Disallow: /wiki/Special%3ARandom
The current setting lets Google index random pages. Now when you select
a search result, Google will serve you another (random) page - NOT the
page as suggested in the search results. For example, search Google for:
allinanchor:"Special:Random" site:wikipedia.org
and click on link '../wiki/Special:Random'.
Freddy Vulto
http://www.fvue.nl/wiki/Google_indexes_MediaWiki_page_with_url_of_Random_page
Version: unspecified
Severity: trivial
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt