Re: Delete OLD pages.

Yes we can exclude that pattern in robots.txt. I'll send Doug an updated 
robots.txt and then look into Google and Bing Webmaster tools to filter 
out these urls.

On 04/23/2013 09:29 PM, Julee wrote:
> Hi, Patrick:
>
> It's a namespace thingie, so
>
> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:*
>
> As in:
>
> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:beginners
> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:concepts
> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:css
> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:dom
> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:html
> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:javascript
> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:svg
>
> That's all I've seen so far.
>
> Wait: can we exclude that URL pattern?
>
> J
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> From: Patrick D'Souza <pdsouza@about.com <mailto:pdsouza@about.com>>
> Reply-To: "pdsouza@about.com <mailto:pdsouza@about.com>" 
> <pdsouza@about.com <mailto:pdsouza@about.com>>
> Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 6:24 PM
> To: julee <julee@adobe.com <mailto:julee@adobe.com>>
> Cc: Jonathan Garbee <jonathan@garbee.me <mailto:jonathan@garbee.me>>, 
> "public-webplatform@w3.org <mailto:public-webplatform@w3.org>" 
> <public-webplatform@w3.org <mailto:public-webplatform@w3.org>>
> Subject: Re: Delete OLD pages.
>
> Can you send me the list of OLD namespaced urls and I'll work on 
> getting them removed if they have been indexed by search engines.
>
> On 04/23/2013 07:32 PM, Julee wrote:
>> +1. Looks like they are in the site maps we submitted. We should 
>> delete them or archive them if necessary. J
>>
>>
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>> julee@adobe.com
>> @adobejulee
>>
>> From: Jonathan Garbee <jonathan@garbee.me <mailto:jonathan@garbee.me>>
>> Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:30 PM
>> To: "public-webplatform@w3.org <mailto:public-webplatform@w3.org>" 
>> <public-webplatform@w3.org <mailto:public-webplatform@w3.org>>
>> Subject: Delete OLD pages.
>>
>> There are a few pages in the OLD namespace such as HTML, CSS, and JS. 
>> They seem to have made the top of the stats last month [1].
>>
>> We should first make sure that OLD pages aren't indexed by search 
>> engines.
>>
>> Second since the new top level pages for these have no issues 
>> shouldn't we remove these pages from this OLD namespace?
>>
>> -Garbee
>>
>> [1] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
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