Hi Pax,
I believe that WMF Discovery is the team that is best suited to address
matters like this, so I am forwarding your email to the Discovery mailing
list.
Pine
On Aug 7, 2016 16:46, "Pax Ahimsa Gethen" <list-wikimedia(a)funcrunch.org>
wrote:
In a recent thread about improving search, I posted a
comment about a
possible hazard of relying on Google to search Wikipedia.[1] I explained
that Google had been displaying a text snippet from an outdated, disruptive
revision of the Gender page.[2] Well, that error has now resurfaced, and at
an editor's suggestion I posted to the Village Pump about it.[3] The
initial response at VP was essentially "not our problem; go away" which was
not exactly encouraging.
I'm sorry but if a major search engine is erroneously telling people that
Wikipedia is stating " There are only 2 genders. Male and Female", that is
a cause of concern for me, and I want to know if or how this problem can be
fixed. As I explained on the talk page and in the Village Pump, Google's
cache of the actual page is up to date; it's just the snippet that is wrong.
- Pax
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-July/
084890.html
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gender&oldid=722247975
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(techni
cal)#Google_returning_outdated_text_snippet_for_Gender_page
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Pax Ahimsa Gethen |
http://funcrunch.org
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