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

[Jon Robson]

FWIW Adding debug=true on zero domains should show the canonical url
to be present. As stated before this will fix itself within less than
30 days as the caches update.
e.g. http://hak.zero.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A8u-Ya%CC%8Dp?debug=true

As James points out the main site doesn't use canonical urls and
probably should... but I'd say that's another bug.


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:58 PM, James Alexander
<jalexander at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 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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