[Wikinews-l] google news

[Jon Davis]

As a clarification, if you check Google News (
http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=site%3Aen.wikinews.org&cf=all&scoring=n),
you will see a few results after the 16th come up.  These are all
articles with at least 3 numbers in their titles.  It just so happens that
on the 16th there was a software rollout where they added a sensible feature
that screwed up.  ::shrugs::

That being said, it sucks that we're temporarily Google News-less, but try
not to piss off the dev's too much.  Obviously it isn't the end of the world
if it took 9 days to be noticed (I found this about 24 hours ago).
Hopefully with some votes to the bug we can get this fixed.

In the mean time, I don't think we should bother with the crazy date hacks
or what not that we've done before.  IMHO that stuff caused more problems
that it was worth.

-Jon

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 00:33, bawolff
<bawolff+wn at gmail.com<bawolff%2Bwn at gmail.com>
> wrote:

> ShakataGaNai recently discovered that it appears we are no longer
> being syndicated by google news as of september 16. Anyways, thought
> i'd mail the list in case people are wondering why we dissapeared off
> google news.
>
> The cause appears to be do to changes in mediawiki, giving the
> googlebot the noindex flag. See
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20818 .
>
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