[pmwiki-users] PMWiki default documents vs search engines

[Russ]

IMHO, the way documentation is currently distributed is ideal.  If you 
want to block it or remove it, that is easy to do.  However, if you have 
multiple PmWiki installations running different versions, the 
documentation is always valid *for that version*.  You won't have the 
situation where a user reads something on documentation linked from 
PmWiki.org, only to find that the feature they are trying to use was 
introduced two releases after your installation.  It is not always 
practical or desirable to upgrade to the latest version unless there is 
a valid security reason, so having a central documentation repository 
might be confusing as it begins to mention features or markup not 
available with the installed version.

Perhaps the documentation on "hiding" pages from the PmWiki group could 
be explained a little more ... this is the first time I'm seen the @lock 
(I've been excluding PmWiki.* from search and pagelists in the 
config.php file). 

Patrick, would the @lock also work to hide Site. pages (or a new Admin. 
group, for example) from search results and pagelists, without affecting 
their ability to be included in other pages like a read password would?

Regards,

Russ Jackman
InternetAdvisor.ca

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> For those sites that don't want to expose the documentation, there
> are at least two good options:
>    1. Put a read password of "@lock" on PmWiki.GroupAttributes --
>       this will generally keep the pages from being found or
>       appearing in pagelists.
>    2. After installing/upgrading, simply remove the PmWiki.* files
>       from wikilib.d/ .
>
> But I'm open to suggestions, and if a lot of people think that we'd
> be better off packaging the documentation as a separate download
> or in a different manner than it is now, we can explore that
> a bit.
>
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