[Labs-l] google search for 'wikimedia labs' gives the wrong result

[Ryan Lane]

We need to make those wikis disappear. We can probably just remove
them from DNS, but we have no way of actually deleting them. We should
advertise deployment (and other labs accessible services) via
labsconsole, or some wmflabs.org portal.

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Ben Hartshorne
<bhartshorne at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We've collectively been referring to the labs project
> (labsconsole.wikimedia.org) as Wikimedia Labs.  Sadly there was an older
> project that shared the same name, and Google (and bing and yahoo) all
> believe that 'Wikimedia Labs' is something different:
> http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.  If you go there, it clearly
> says it's out of date, but it points you to
> http://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page (also not
> 'wikimedia labs' but the wikipedia beta).
>
> What can we do to make the google juice flow and send people looking for
> wikimedia labs to the right place?  It's embarrassing that we're advertising
> (talking about, giving presentations about, etc.) a thing to people all over
> and making it hard for them to find the thing.
>
> -ben
>
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