[Wikimedia-l] No access to the Uzbek Wikipedia in Uzbekistan

[Anonymous User]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>
 wrote:

> Is it enough to set the <link rel="canonical">, or is it also
> necessary to redirect?
>

When I asked the nice folks at Google's search team, they answered me the
following:

* The best answer would for them to use rel=canonical tags so that
http://example.wikimedia.uz points to http*s*://example.wikimedia.uz. So
I'd send them this page:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394 and
tell them to start doing that. If they're very serious (and it's a small
property, so there's not much risk) then they could make every http page
301 to the https version as well.



I don't know how much effort each of these two measures would be. If you'd
ask me, I would suggest to be "very serious", but we are not under a
deadline (the situation has been like this for more than a year now), and
setting the rel="caonical" would already be really, really helpful.

Thank you all for your encouraging comments so far.