All,
My mistake. The pages in Google's index that I used for sampling - the ones that have "Sorry, ..." in their description in Google search results - are cached pages. I assumed incorrectly that those pages were based on recent indexing (e.g., in the past few days).
I think we can actually stick to the original plan of Google re-indexing and the search results de-emphasizing the <language>.zero.wikipedia.orglinks within the next 30 days.
I still find it strange that there are <language>.zero.wikipedia.org links that turned up higher in the search engine rankings than their better-established <language>.wikipedia.org counterparts. But I suppose with fewer competing page elements, especially on long-tail articles with fewer or no direct links to the desktop page, this is maybe not totally unexpected.
-Adam
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Adam Baso abaso@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello All,
We had shelved my patch, patch 64629https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/64629, in hopes that an earlier patch, patch 61809https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/61809(bug 35233 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35233), would resolve the issue naturally as Google re-indexed. But it appears Google has re-indexed and yet the .zero.wikipedia.org URLs are still present in Google's index, instead of the <language>.wikipedia.org URLs.
I have thus resubmitted patch 64629 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/64629 for re-review. We will need to further discuss whether it is appropriate to have Google completely remove .zero.wikipedia.org links from their cache, or if perhaps we need to open a support thread with Google about canonical URLs.
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Kul Wadhwa kwadhwa@wikimedia.org wrote:
Adam Baso (copied on this email) is working on it and a fix is ready. He'll do some testing to make sure it's resolved.
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Looping Dan Foy in who's managing the Zero backlog.
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
K. Peachey wrote:
Can you please file this in bugzilla https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org?
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48856
MZMcBride
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