Hi Everyone,
I think this is a good opportunity to discuss with Google's Search Team here in
Singapore in 2 weeks time.
You can register at Wikimania pre-Conference at this link:
Kind regards,
Butch
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023, 5:13 PM James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Am having the same issue with Google poorly indexing
MDWiki.org. I have personally
switched my default browser to duckduckgo as they index much better. The two folks at
Google who used to support their collaborations with Wikipedia are no longer with the
company. Not sure if they have been replaced by anyone.
James
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 12:51 AM Bodhisattwa <bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
Apologies for cross-posting.
For those who have not noticed till now, Google is not indexing any Wikisource language
editions for the last couple of years which practically means that any Wikisource contents
in any languages, which are being created in these years, are not searchable on Google and
hence largely remain invisible on the web.
This is an extremely demotivating and frustrating situation for the existing Wikisource
volunteers to witness, draining away all of our past and current efforts to bring and
retain viewers, readers, GLAM partners and any potential new editors. We already have a
very low awareness and visibility about Wikisource among general internet users due to
lack of organized support in these years but the invisibility on Google search engine
could become the last nail in our coffin, unless it is fixed soon.
There is a phabricator ticket raised by Darwinius back in December 2022 -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325607.
Can't this issue be put into priority by sys admins and WMF to work upon? Wikisource
is still a sister project of Wikimedia and it needs some very basic care, after all.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(Bengali Wikisource volunteer)
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