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-status: wip
+status: not-implemented
Crawlability Improvements
--------------------------
+NOTE: After some back and forth on this topic, we have decided for now to focus
+on having scholar.archive.org indexed, not fatcat.wiki. This proposal document
+document is being kept as documentation of that decision.
+
+
+## Original Intro
+
We are interested in making the fatcat corpus more crawlable/indexable by
aggregators and academic search enginges. For example, CiteseerX, Google
Scholar, or Microsoft Academic (when themselves get used by other projects).
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- is the web.archive.org iframe for PDFs ok, or should we redirect to PDFs with `id_` in the datetime?
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## Redirect URLs and `citation_pdf_url`
We suspect that some crawlers do not like that fatcat.wiki landing pages have