https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56526
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Bug ID: 56526
Summary: Google uses unsighted version of the page
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: FlaggedRevs
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Created attachment 13677
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Screenshot of Google search for "alexandre pato" on Oct. 15
The hu.wikipedia page for Alexandre Pato has been vandalized recently [1], and
only restored after about three weeks. hu.wikipedia uses flagged revisions,
with the last sighted version shown to non-logged-in users; the review log [2]
shows that the vandalized version was never sighted. Despite this, Google's
Knowledge Graph still picked up the first few sentences from the vandalised
version (see attached image - interestingly, the result snippet is from the
sighted version, but the KG snippet is from the vandalized one).
This might not be a bug in the strict sense, but Google being tricky, and
requesting something other than the standard non-logged-in HTML version (for
example, action=raw always shows the newest version); at any rate, it is
annoying (I found out about it from some newspaper article using the Pato
article as the example of the unreliable nature of Wikipedia). It would be nice
if we could figure out where exactly is Google getting its data from.
[1]
https://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexandre_Pato&diff=13967284&oldid=13847764
[2]
https://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speci%C3%A1lis%3ARendszernapl%C3%B3k&type=review&user=&page=Alexandre+Pato&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=&hide_review_log=1&hide_thanks_log=1
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