[j1elo]

Sadly very few authors seem to acknowledge or even know that github wiki pages are not indexed by search engines so if it wasn't for third-party sites like github-wiki-see.page (which could stop working at any time) their contents would be undiscoverable by the very same people they are usually intended...

[oblio]

What? That's crazy! Does Github block indexing?

[bckygldstn]

There's more details on https://github-wiki-see.page/ and https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/4992#discussi...

> we have also introduced an x-robots-tag: none in the http response header of Wiki pages

> Abusive behavior in Wikis had a negative impact on our search engine ranking

> GitHub is currently permitting a select criteria of GitHub Wikis to be indexed

[beembeem]

https://github.com/robots.txt

I don't see anything here about wiki specifically but maybe one of the rules hits wiki pages?

[crazysim]

They've moved from robots.txt to blocking by headers.