On 2015-04-26 23:41, Pine W wrote:
Hi Gerard,
Yes, I saw this news as well.
Check out these results:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=www.wikipedia.o...
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=en.wikipedia.or...
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=commons.wikimed...
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=www.wikimediafo...
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=www.wikimedia.o...
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=blog.wikimedia....
It looks like most but not all Wikimedia sites pass Google's test.
The good news is that, according to Google's FAQ [1], the new ranking signal only affects individual pages, not entire websites. Therefore any problems on these portals are unlikely to ding individual articles, which generally pass the test. [2]
The other good news for Gerard is that Wiktionary's portal somehow passes. ;-)
The project portals can always use help from more community members. If you'd like to propose specific code changes to the HTML markup, the standard process is to edit the portal's sandbox [3], then ping a Meta sysop like me to copy the source code over to the live page. (Quaint, I know.) The portals' CSS and JavaScript are maintained as a ResourceLoader gadget [4]; please propose changes on the talk page, flagging them with {{editprotected}}.
[1] http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/04/faqs-april-21st-mobile-friendly.html [2] https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_advertisement [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-wm-portal.css https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-wm-portal.js