Russavia asked me to check this to confirm it wasn't just him or his regional Google setup, and it's both correct and looking into it further it's hitting every single page on Wikipedia that Google has indexed.
If you search for "DEAR WIKIPEDIA READERS: You're probably busy, so we'll get right to it. This week we ask our readers to help us. This week we ask our readers to protect our site:en.wikipedia.org" we're both getting 6,100,000 results.
If you take, at random, some pages for that search result, and then try to find those pages through a fairly typical, sensible search result using the page title or keywords in the article, some search text results show the fundraising banner text, and other pages show a relevant text excerpt from the page.
I'll pass this on to the developers too, but hopefully this helps here too.
Nick
On 7 December 2014 at 10:23, Russavia russavia.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
If you do a Google search and look at the Wikipedia results, e.g.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Malvinas+Argentinas+International+Airport... you will see that the results state:
"DEAR WIKIPEDIA READERS: You're probably busy, so we'll get right to it. This week we ask our readers to help us. To protect our independence from corporate"
Instead of the article information.
It doesn't sit right with me that fundraising is interfering with Google results, and even moreso due to it stating "to protect our independence from corporate...."
Is there some way that this can be prevented, short of not using Google?
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