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

[James Alexander]

Sorry for the double post: For what it's worth .... It does not appear that
we have a canonical url appearing on most pages. Mobile has canonical
pointing to the main site but neither zero or the main site have
a canonical expressly stated.

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


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:53 PM, James Alexander
<jalexander at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> 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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