On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Andrew Cates
<andrew.cates(a)soschildren.org> wrote:
Sorry about this but I think it is a reasonable
request for help..
Google seems to be delivering wikipedia URLs for pages with a 302
interwiki link eg
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=schools+wikipedia&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-…
gets
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SchoolsWP%3Aindex%3Ahome as the URL with
http://schools-wikipedia.org/ as content
As far as I can see interwiki redirects are no longer used by
Wikimedia software which just delivers straight links to target off
the wikipedia pages. So nothing links through the 302 but Google
returns it anyway.
Anyway could we therefore disable the temporary redirects to fix this
problem, or not serve them to Google or if there is some reason why
the redirects have to stay, show Google perm redirects instead (it is
not as if we will want the redirects to point at anywhere else)
This looks like a Google bug. I don't think we should just disable
302s to interwikis -- you shouldn't have to run MediaWiki (and know
Wikipedia's interwiki link table) to be able to reliably link to
things in the same way you can link to them on Wikipedia. Right now
third-party software can do stuff like <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1"> and replace $1 by user input,
and it will work basically like [[$1]] typed on Wikipedia, and that's
good.