Ah, that’s outputted by mediawiki automatically because it is appended to the $bodyContent. Not sure why Google would zero in on that. It is hidden by default, even on MediaWiki.org. Perhaps more content on page or a hook to add a meta description tag for main page. 


Not sure that can be controlled because it is appended in the SkinTemplate class automatically. Would be a good question as to why there’s no control. 


First answer I just did a search on your domain and saw this...in English search. 

image1.jpeg

Checking more with site: in Google everything looks good. 


Tom


On Feb 13, 2018, at 1:20 PM, Vivian Epiney <epiney@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you Tom for your nice and developed answer.

The problem is that the content Google sucked up IS in the source code of the front page (lines 149-150) :
<div class="printfooter">
Récupérée de «&#160;<a dir="ltr" href="https://dicoado.org:443/wiki/index.php?title=Dico:Accueil&amp;oldid=13235">https://dicoado.org:443/wiki/index.php?title=Dico:Accueil&amp;oldid=13235</a>&#160;»</div>

So robots.txt policies and sitemaps (which I already use) won't help.

Any idea how to "delete" these lines ?

Best regards.

Vivian

2018-02-13 18:55 GMT+01:00 Tom Hutchison <tom@hutch4.us>:

Hi Vivian

This is not a Foreground issue. You need to take control of robots indexing your site. Google is greedy and will index everything it can! This would include, history pages, diffs, old versions, etc… Basically, anything and everything it can crawl on your site with a link.

Please read[0] and consider using the Sitemap Generator[1]. You will need to specify what pages are good content to index in the sitemap too[2][3][4]. Probably of interest is this[4].

Tom

 

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Robots.txt

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:GenerateSitemap.php

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSitemapNamespaces

[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSitemapNamespacesPriorities

[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDefaultRobotPolicy

 

From: Foreground [mailto:foreground-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of epiney@gmail.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 10:20 AM
To: foreground@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Foreground] Front page shows footer as content

 

Hello,

 

Any idea why the front page of my website https://dicoado.org/dico/Dico:Accueil is shown as 

 

"Récupérée de « https://dicoado.org:443/wiki/index.php?title=Dico:Accueil&oldid=13219 ». Contenu disponible sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0. Contributeurs · À propos du Dico des Ados · Aide. "

 

on google.com results ?

 

It seems like it's a part of the footer that isn't (partly) even visible for users.

 

Not sure it's a foreground issue but not sure it isn't either ! :)

 

Thanks for your feedback.

 

Vivian


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