https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65016
Bug ID: 65016
Summary: ignore query string in canonical url
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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Mobile Platform: ---
Right now if you go to a page (including a content page) with a query string
that query string goes into the canonical url string. For example:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude?cat"; />
should be
<link rel="canonical" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude"; />
This has caused issues where search engines have indexed bad urls (with
people's name or libel threats in the query string) which should obviously
never have gotten into their system in the first place but when they check to
see if it 'exists' they are getting an answer of 'yes' (as far as they are
concerned).
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