It's not Google News' fault, it's ours (technically). The short version is that someone changed MediaWiki to tells the bots not to index any page when using ?currid=12345 to access it. The normal (non ?currid) version still works fine.
So what can we do to fix this? Get a dev to either undo this, or create a work around for us.
-Jon
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:42, Jason Safoutin <jason.safoutin@wikinewsie.org
wrote:
And what can we do to fix this? brianmc last I knew had a contact at Google News...or at least a live person. This upsets me though.
-- Jason Safoutin Wikinews accredited reporter and administrator jason.safoutin@wikinewsie.org
bawolff wrote:
ShakataGaNai recently discovered that it appears we are no longer being syndicated by google news as of september 16. Anyways, thought i'd mail the list in case people are wondering why we dissapeared off google news.
The cause appears to be do to changes in mediawiki, giving the googlebot the noindex flag. See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20818 .
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