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.
Personally I hope we invest heavily in Mobile Web in the next annual plan. I would like to see growth in mobile readership and growth in mobile contributions, and year-over-year growth in combined desktop and mobile readership and contributions.
Thanks,
Pine
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*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know.*
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On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi,
It is all over the news. Google will push mobile phone support by changing its ranking algorithm. A website that does not support mobiles well will suffer the consequences. Several sources like /. indicate that Wikipedia has a problem.
I am anxious to learn what we are going to do.
From my perspective this is not a time of endless deliberations; we have done that, we have been there. Mobile is where we grow. It seems to me a no brainer that we will move lock stock and barrel to a more mobile friendly environment.
Thanks. GerardM
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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
Minh Nguyen, 28/04/2015 09:36:
Therefore any problems on these portals are unlikely to ding individual articles, which generally pass the test. [2]
Not to mention that some portals would use *less* visits than they have, for instance the fact that 1/3 of our pageviews from India goes to the portal is crazy ...though it may be interesting to have more complete statistics on the "general population" of Wikimedia projects pages from those with access to Google Webmaster tools for them.
Nemo