On 10/3/06, David Monniaux David.Monniaux@free.fr wrote:
One lingering issue with deletions (for instance, of prank or malevolent entries about totally random people with personal information) is that our content is massively replicated:
- on mirror sites such as Answers.com
- in Google cache.
Telling people to go contact Answers.com and Google is probably legally correct (we're not responsible for these sites) but, to me, somehow sounds like we're passing the bucket (we helped create the mess in the first place after all).
It would be neat if we could tell Google or Answers.com to flush out a particular article. This is probably just about the Foundation arranging a programmatic API with them.
Google offers a number of options for removing content from their cache [1], but none of them are really helpful to us.
I'm sure we could set up some kind of system to automatically send out a SOAP message or something similar to certain sites when articles are deleted. Knowing that the technology exists is about the limit of my knowledge in this field, so I'll send this to wikitech-l too.
Devs, would it be feasible to have some kind of system to notify these regular updaters when certain articles are deleted?
---- (1) http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8459
How about adding a "&feed=atom" type of parameter to: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete ... That way they can pull the deletion log, rather than us pushing it?
All the best, Nick.
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Stephen Bain Sent: Tuesday, 3 October 2006 1:47 PM To: English OTRS discussion list; Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [Otrs-en-l] flushing from Answers.com, Google etc.
On 10/3/06, David Monniaux David.Monniaux@free.fr wrote:
One lingering issue with deletions (for instance, of prank or malevolent entries about totally random people with personal information) is that our content is massively replicated:
- on mirror sites such as Answers.com
- in Google cache.
Telling people to go contact Answers.com and Google is probably legally correct (we're not responsible for these sites) but, to me, somehow sounds like we're passing the bucket (we helped create the mess in the first place after all).
It would be neat if we could tell Google or Answers.com to flush out a particular article. This is probably just about the Foundation arranging a programmatic API with them.
Google offers a number of options for removing content from their cache [1], but none of them are really helpful to us.
I'm sure we could set up some kind of system to automatically send out a SOAP message or something similar to certain sites when articles are deleted. Knowing that the technology exists is about the limit of my knowledge in this field, so I'll send this to wikitech-l too.
Devs, would it be feasible to have some kind of system to notify these regular updaters when certain articles are deleted?
(1) http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8459
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