Thank you!

On Friday, May 29, 2015, Brandon Black <[email protected]> wrote:

> We've merged up https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/214705/1 to address
> this, and I've purged the caches to ensure the update is fully live
> already.  It should address the issue, assuming that the block on RL's
> /w/load.php entry point was the only part of the problem.
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Yup what brandon said.
> >
> > On 29 May 2015 1:35 pm, "Jon Robson" <[email protected]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >> It's all in the report. We block w/ in robots.txt always have.
> >>
> >> There have been a bunch of changes to improve performance of the site
> >> overall which might have led to that. Mailing this to the public mailing
> >> list wikitech would give you a better idea.
> >>
> >> Our site /is/ mobile friendly it's just we tell google not to load
> styles
> >> from w/load.php so no need to panic.
> >>
> >> The question is what is the penalty of us failing this tool? Does it
> >> impact our google search rankings?
> >>
> >> Fix is trivial.. Update robots.txt but first the question is why are we
> >> blocking scripts and styles on that url?
> >>
> >> On 29 May 2015 1:17 pm, "Jon Katz" <[email protected] <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Readership team and broader community,
> >>> Any changes we might have recently made to cause this warning to appear
> >>> about googlebot not being able to access our site?
> >>> I consider this to be a very serious issue.
> >>> The examples below are not mobile, but same issue applies when you try
> an
> >>> en.m. version of the pages.
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Jon
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >>> From: Wes Moran <[email protected] <javascript:;>>
> >>> Date: Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:47 PM
> >>> Subject: Mobile Firendly
> >>> To: Jon Katz <[email protected] <javascript:;>>
> >>> Cc: Adam Baso <[email protected] <javascript:;>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Jon,
> >>>
> >>> Google notified us of the followin...
> >>>
> >>> "We recently noticed that there was a change with how you embed CSS &
> JS
> >>> which results in us not being able to use the CSS & JS to recognize
> what the
> >>> page looks like. That's making some of your pages fail the
> >>> mobile-friendly-test, for example. You used to load CSS & JS from
> >>> bits.wikimedia.org, but now they're loaded through /w/load.php?...
> directly
> >>> from the Wikipedia host, where that path is blocked by robots.txt.
> >>>
> >>> You can see how we render the pages with Fetch as Google in Webmaster
> >>> Tools / Search Console, you can also see most of that with the
> test-page at:
> >>>
> >>>
> https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBusot
> >>>
> >>> Some of the pages still pass the test there (example), but the CSS is
> >>> broken there too since it's blocked. "
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas what can be causing this?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Wes
> >>>
> >>>
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