Has anyone tried telling the Google Search Console to index all the
Wikisource language domains? Presumably a Foundation sysadmin would
need to add the ownership verification tokens to do so:
https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome
-LW
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 7:53 AM Dušan Kreheľ <dusankrehel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hm.
>
> Page: La akonca (1888) (
be.wikisource.org)
> Created day with the last modification: 17:26, 7 July 2023 CEST
> Indexed by Google: 7. júl 2023 18:21:14 UTC
>
> Not indexed:
https://be.wikisource.org/wiki/Alkahol_(1913)
>
>
> 2023-08-01 8:47 GMT+02:00, Bodhisattwa <bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com>om>:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Apologies for cross-posting.
> >
> > For those who have not noticed till now, Google is not indexing any
> > Wikisource language editions for the last couple of years which practically
> > means that any Wikisource contents in any languages, which are being
> > created in these years, are not searchable on Google and hence largely
> > remain invisible on the web.
> >
> > This is an extremely demotivating and frustrating situation for the
> > existing Wikisource volunteers to witness, draining away all of our past
> > and current efforts to bring and retain viewers, readers, GLAM partners and
> > any potential new editors. We already have a very low awareness and
> > visibility about Wikisource among general internet users due to lack of
> > organized support in these years but the invisibility on Google search
> > engine could become the last nail in our coffin, unless it is fixed soon.
> >
> > There is a phabricator ticket raised by Darwinius back in December 2022 -
> >
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325607.
> >
> > Can't this issue be put into priority by sys admins and WMF to work upon?
> > Wikisource is still a sister project of Wikimedia and it needs some very
> > basic care, after all.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bodhisattwa
> > (Bengali Wikisource volunteer)
> >
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