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