... That way they can pull the deletion log, rather than us pushing it?
All the best,
Nick.
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From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)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(a)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?
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(1)
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8459
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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com
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