Re: [Wikimedia-l] Persistence of old vandalized Wikipedia articles in Google search, especially for zombie attacks

2019-10-06 Thread RhinosF1 -
Hi Fæ, I've requested it's taken down using https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals so it should be updated soon. Thanks, RhinosF1 On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 15:20, Fæ wrote: > Can someone explain how a vandalized version of the Wikipedia article > about Henry Kissinger that was only

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Persistence of old vandalized Wikipedia articles in Google search, especially for zombie attacks

2019-10-06 Thread Rebecca Yael Weissburg
I remember hearing why this happens, and that it is a concern to Google, but I don’t remember the technical details. They want to work with us to fix this issue. I will reach out and get more information. Thanks for flagging! On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 8:57 AM Dennis During wrote: > Isn't it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Persistence of old vandalized Wikipedia articles in Google search, especially for zombie attacks

2019-10-06 Thread Alex Monk
I've had a few successes in the past with getting Google to remove vandalised versions of pages from their cache/main search results using https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals?pli=1 - in this case it appears in the knowledge panel but not the cached copy of the page, so it might be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Persistence of old vandalized Wikipedia articles in Google search, especially for zombie attacks

2019-10-06 Thread Dennis During
Isn't it statistically inevitable that some offensively vandalized version of some WP article will happen to be the version that Google caches? I suppose they don't refresh the cache very often. Weekly? I know Google doesn't make it easy to complain effectively about such blunders. On Sun, Oct 6,

[Wikimedia-l] Persistence of old vandalized Wikipedia articles in Google search, especially for zombie attacks

2019-10-06 Thread
Can someone explain how a vandalized version of the Wikipedia article about Henry Kissinger that was only visible for a rather short time several days ago, is still being promoted in Google searches today?[1][2] The "zombie sex" vandalism was only visible for a few minutes, quickly fixed by admin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ի՞նչն է Ձեզ երջանկացնում այս շաբաթ: / What’s making you happy this week? (Week of 22 September 2019)

2019-10-06 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
Thanks Gerard. I think concerning Wikidata, we should be fine, since all these articles existed on the Russian Wikipedia before Wikidata was even created, and bots must have moved there relevant information, but I will sample it. Concerning the Africa project, I added quite some information to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ի՞նչն է Ձեզ երջանկացնում այս շաբաթ: / What’s making you happy this week? (Week of 22 September 2019)

2019-10-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Wonderful work congratulations .. I do appreciate your work, in my "Africa project" I have a record for all the known administrative administrative entities. It truly is a work in progress and it serves a few purposes. - In Wikidata the links for the administrative entities exist and they

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ի՞նչն է Ձեզ երջանկացնում այս շաբաթ: / What’s making you happy this week? (Week of 22 September 2019)

2019-10-06 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
Now, what is making me happy this week is that yesterday I completed the first step of my long-term project at the English Wikipedia. I finished creating articles on all district centers in Russia. Districts are the second level administration divisions in Russia (the first level are federal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Community Tech: New Format for 2020 Wishlist Survey

2019-10-06 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
The wishlist of course accepts wishes in any language, but in order to make it to the accepted zone a wish must have several dozens supporters, which is only realistically possible for English language wishes. (Supports can also be in any language). Cheers Yaroslav On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 10:51

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Community Tech: New Format for 2020 Wishlist Survey

2019-10-06 Thread Chris Keating
> > > the wishlist only reflects > > the needs and perceptions of highly active contributors [at present I > think > > it only accepts submissions in English ,which is another obstacle, but > that > > could be addressed]. > > The wishlist has explicitly accepted wishes in any language. Thanks