On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
I can confirm that my edit to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushuaia_%E2%80%93_Malvinas_Argentinas_Internat... has now fixed the issue in Google search as it relates to that article, but the issue still remains on 8,600,000 articles (up from 8,540,000 articles yesterday).
site:wikipedia.org "Dear Wikipedia readers" produces 936,000 results for me. Please note that Google uses a distributed index, and depending where you are geographically, and where Google sends you based on server load, you will get inconsistent results from query to query. See this paper for a bit more detail on how these index inconsistencies manifest:
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~snoeren/papers/bobble-pam14.pdf
Pages we know to have been re-crawled don't exhibit the issue, so it should be only a matter of time for the index to catch up. Please also note that the text being in the index does not automatically mean that it will show up in a typical search. Any search for the phrase itself will highlight it in the snippet (extract) shown in the search result page as a match, while a typical search will not include the phrase and will much less frequently identify the text to be a good match for the user's search query, mitigating global user impact significantly. We'd still like to resolve this completely as quickly as possible, of course.
Erik