https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14882
--- Comment #14 from Conrad Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-11-17 13:52:27 UTC --- The motivation for requesting this changes was that our pages did not contain the word "dictionary", "definition" or other words people use to search for dictionaries. This meant, that until we added a hidden tagline to each page, searches for "definition of word" "word dictionary" did not include Wiktionary at all (even when wiktionary was in the top 10 for "word" on its own). The extension should probably be named meta-description, as that was its main intended use - however I saved the file as keywords, and it stuck. It would be neater from every point of view to have "Definitions of $1 from Wiktionary, a free dictionary" in the <meta description> instead of in a hidden <span> on each page, though it is not necessary that necessary except to avoid misleading people. Compare http://www.google.com/search?q=chalcidology+dictionary and http://www.google.com/search?q=chalcidology . (At the time of writing the second search contains wiktionary, the first doesn't - google haven't recrawled this page recently) Luckily Google now (in the past few months) uses Wiktionary as a source of definitions, so we can provide useful information at http://www.google.com/search?q=definition+of+chalcidology even though the website itself doesn't appear. The problem with using the tagline for this can be seen at http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=chalcidology+dictionary&go=&form=QBRE where the talk page appears even though it is irrelevant. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
