Thank you!
On Friday, May 29, 2015, Brandon Black <bblack@wikimedia.org> wrote:
We've merged up https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/214705/1 to address
this, and I've purged the caches to ensure the update is fully live
already. It should address the issue, assuming that the block on RL's
/w/load.php entry point was the only part of the problem.
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Yup what brandon said.
>
> On 29 May 2015 1:35 pm, "Jon Robson" <jrobson@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> It's all in the report. We block w/ in robots.txt always have.
>>
>> There have been a bunch of changes to improve performance of the site
>> overall which might have led to that. Mailing this to the public mailing
>> list wikitech would give you a better idea.
>>
>> Our site /is/ mobile friendly it's just we tell google not to load styles
>> from w/load.php so no need to panic.
>>
>> The question is what is the penalty of us failing this tool? Does it
>> impact our google search rankings?
>>
>> Fix is trivial.. Update robots.txt but first the question is why are we
>> blocking scripts and styles on that url?
>>
>> On 29 May 2015 1:17 pm, "Jon Katz" <jkatz@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Readership team and broader community,
>>> Any changes we might have recently made to cause this warning to appear
>>> about googlebot not being able to access our site?
>>> I consider this to be a very serious issue.
>>> The examples below are not mobile, but same issue applies when you try an
>>> en.m. version of the pages.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Wes Moran <wmoran@wikimedia.org>
>>> Date: Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:47 PM
>>> Subject: Mobile Firendly
>>> To: Jon Katz <jkatz@wikimedia.org>
>>> Cc: Adam Baso <abaso@wikimedia.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jon,
>>>
>>> Google notified us of the followin...
>>>
>>> "We recently noticed that there was a change with how you embed CSS & JS
>>> which results in us not being able to use the CSS & JS to recognize what the
>>> page looks like. That's making some of your pages fail the
>>> mobile-friendly-test, for example. You used to load CSS & JS from
>>> bits.wikimedia.org, but now they're loaded through /w/load.php?... directly
>>> from the Wikipedia host, where that path is blocked by robots.txt.
>>>
>>> You can see how we render the pages with Fetch as Google in Webmaster
>>> Tools / Search Console, you can also see most of that with the test-page at:
>>>
>>> https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBusot
>>>
>>> Some of the pages still pass the test there (example), but the CSS is
>>> broken there too since it's blocked. "
>>>
>>> Any ideas what can be causing this?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Wes
>>>
>>>
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