[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

[Adam Baso]

All,

My mistake. The pages in Google's index that I used for sampling - the ones
that have "Sorry, ..." in their description in Google search results - are
cached pages. I assumed incorrectly that those pages were based on recent
indexing (e.g., in the past few days).

I think we can actually stick to the original plan of Google re-indexing
and the search results de-emphasizing the
<language>.zero.wikipedia.orglinks within the next 30 days.

I still find it strange that there are <language>.zero.wikipedia.org links
that turned up higher in the search engine rankings than their
better-established <language>.wikipedia.org counterparts. But I suppose
with fewer competing page elements, especially on long-tail articles with
fewer or no direct links to the desktop page, this is maybe not totally
unexpected.

-Adam




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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