[Foundation-l] Question to post...

[David Goodman]

Perhaps we should try using the titles for things that other people
use--not for g-rank, but as signs that we recognize that an
encyclopedia is made for the readers.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Brion Vibber<brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 8/13/09 12:23 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> (I went on, on IRC, to point some examples of the behavioural change
>> that happened towards the end of 2007 (per my cruddy memory) where
>> non-widely-linked redirects basically fell out of the google index...
>> search terms like "Jesus bug" or many other things like
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Redirects_to_scientific_names
>>   ... if we cared about the traffic flux from google we'd see what we
>> could do to fix that)
>
> Worth looking into; have we got some collected info and sample queries
> to poke at? [I would recommend moving further detail discussion on this
> end of things to wikitech-l.]
>
> -- brion
>
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