[Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

[James Alexander]

At some level there seems to be a change in google (or our) settings that
are doing this everywhere. I've also been seeing a lot of links indexed and
appearing in google as the primary domain too
(wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostonrather then
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston, seen it on Wikivoyage as well and I assume
the others). At some level we're probably going to want to figure out
what's happening because at some point down the road 'something' changed
just not sure on what side.

James Alexander
Legal and Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Adam Baso <abaso at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> We had shelved my patch, patch 64629<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/64629>,
> in hopes that an earlier patch, patch 61809<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/61809>(bug
> 35233 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35233>), would
> resolve the issue naturally as Google re-indexed. But it appears Google has
> re-indexed and yet the .zero.wikipedia.org URLs are still  present in
> Google's index, instead of the <language>.wikipedia.org URLs.
>
> I have thus resubmitted patch 64629 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/64629> for
> re-review. We will need to further discuss whether it is appropriate to
> have Google completely remove .zero.wikipedia.org links from their cache,
> or if perhaps we need to open a support thread with Google about canonical
> URLs.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Kul Wadhwa <kwadhwa at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Adam Baso (copied on this email) is working on it and a fix is ready.
>> He'll do some testing to make sure it's resolved.
>>
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Looping Dan Foy in who's managing the Zero backlog.
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
>>> > K. Peachey wrote:
>>> >>Can you please file this in bugzilla <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org>?
>>> >
>>> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48856
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > MZMcBride
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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>> Kul Wadhwa
>> Head of Mobile
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
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