As a clarification, if you check Google News ( <a href="http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=site%3Aen.wikinews.org&cf=all&scoring=n">http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=site%3Aen.wikinews.org&cf=all&scoring=n</a> ), you will see a few results after the 16th come up. These are all articles with at least 3 numbers in their titles. It just so happens that on the 16th there was a software rollout where they added a sensible feature that screwed up. ::shrugs::<br>
<br>That being said, it sucks that we're temporarily Google News-less, but try not to piss off the dev's too much. Obviously it isn't the end of the world if it took 9 days to be noticed (I found this about 24 hours ago). Hopefully with some votes to the bug we can get this fixed.<br>
<br>In the mean time, I don't think we should bother with the crazy date hacks or what not that we've done before. IMHO that stuff caused more problems that it was worth.<br><br>-Jon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 00:33, bawolff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bawolff%2Bwn@gmail.com">bawolff+wn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
ShakataGaNai recently discovered that it appears we are no longer<br>
being syndicated by google news as of september 16. Anyways, thought<br>
i'd mail the list in case people are wondering why we dissapeared off<br>
google news.<br>
<br>
The cause appears to be do to changes in mediawiki, giving the<br>
googlebot the noindex flag. See<br>
<a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20818" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20818</a> .<br>
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