Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner interfering with Google results

2014-12-07 Thread Lodewijk
I think Erik emailed last week to this list that this was an unintended side effect they are trying to solve. So I guess patience is the answer here. Lodewijk On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, If you do a Google search and look at the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner interfering with Google results

2014-12-07 Thread Nick Birse
Russavia asked me to check this to confirm it wasn't just him or his regional Google setup, and it's both correct and looking into it further it's hitting every single page on Wikipedia that Google has indexed. If you search for DEAR WIKIPEDIA READERS: You're probably busy, so we'll get right to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner interfering with Google results

2014-12-07 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Nick Birse w...@nbir.se wrote: Russavia asked me to check this to confirm it wasn't just him or his regional Google setup, and it's both correct and looking into it further it's hitting every single page on Wikipedia that Google has indexed. If you search for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner interfering with Google results

2014-12-07 Thread
On 7 December 2014 at 11:08, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: ... The devs have been aware since December 4, based on the date https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76743 was opened. Wow, 8 million returns on Google. Er, Lila, someone, how about making a decision to pause using

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner interfering with Google results

2014-12-07 Thread pajz
On 7 December 2014 at 12:19, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, 8 million returns on Google. Er, Lila, someone, how about making a decision to pause using fundraising banners until this is fixed or at least we understand why it is happening? See Erik's comment somewhere in this kilometre-long

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner interfering with Google results

2014-12-07 Thread Russavia
Thanks John for the link. I've made an edit to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushuaia_%E2%80%93_Malvinas_Argentinas_International_Airport as I've been told that Google will update text in their search results when articles are created and edited. Is that correct? If so, how long will the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner interfering with Google results

2014-12-07 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks John for the link. I've made an edit to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushuaia_%E2%80%93_Malvinas_Argentinas_International_Airport as I've been told that Google will update text in their search results when

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner interfering with Google results

2014-12-07 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi all, For the record, we've been able to confirm that our fixes, which were already deployed Thursday, immediately addressed the issue on our end. Google also picked up the updated robots.txt already on December 4, according to Google Webmaster Tools. GoogleBot, for better or for worse,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner interfering with Google results

2014-12-07 Thread Russavia
Thanks for the update Erik I can confirm that my edit to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushuaia_%E2%80%93_Malvinas_Argentinas_International_Airport has now fixed the issue in Google search as it relates to that article, but the issue still remains on 8,600,000 articles (up from 8,540,000 articles

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner interfering with Google results

2014-12-07 Thread Erik Moeller
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: I can confirm that my edit to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushuaia_%E2%80%93_Malvinas_Argentinas_International_Airport has now fixed the issue in Google search as it relates to that article, but the issue still

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner interfering with Google results

2014-12-07 Thread Richard Symonds
Thanks for the thorough updates Erik :-) On 7 Dec 2014 23:11, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: I can confirm that my edit to