https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48856
--- Comment #3 from Jon <[email protected]> --- I can't speak about the IP address content restriction (although personally i don't understand this and think at the very least there should be a link rather than the current broken experience! - what if someone shares a link for example). I also believe that if people are sharing a zero link that is the same as a normal wikipedia page link it will boost the wikipedia page's page ranking. Anyway in terms of indexing, if Google finds a page the first thing it should do is look for the canonical link tag [1]. If it finds it instead of indexing the current page (the zero one in this case) it boosts the non-zero page's ranking. If you looked at the cached versions of these indexed page the canonical link tag is not there so they got indexed (see bug 35233). When the page HTML for these pages is rewritten it will have the canonical url and they will disappear from search results without any further work. As far as I know we don't set a noindex directive and I don't believe we should. I believe that since people share links, and might share a link on zero via some other service (which maybe also has data free charges) I think we should improve the experience for users landing on this page who are not on zero. Instead of wiping content we should either automatically redirect or show a different banner linking to the original content. So with this in mind MZ should a new bug be created or do we still want to brute force via a noindex? [1] http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
