It's not Google News' fault, it's ours (technically).  The short version is that someone changed MediaWiki to tells the bots not to index any page when using ?currid=12345 to access it.  The normal (non ?currid) version still works fine. 

So what can we do to fix this?  Get a dev to either undo this, or create a work around for us.

-Jon

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:42, Jason Safoutin <jason.safoutin@wikinewsie.org> wrote:
And what can we do to fix this? brianmc last I knew had a contact at
Google News...or at least a live person. This upsets me though.

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bawolff wrote:
> ShakataGaNai recently discovered that it appears we are no longer
> being syndicated by google news as of september 16. Anyways, thought
> i'd mail the list in case people are wondering why we dissapeared off
> google news.
>
> The cause appears to be do to changes in mediawiki, giving the
> googlebot the noindex flag. See
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20818 .
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