Dear all, thank you again for your answers so far. I would have had hoped to have more voices participating, but everyone who did agreed that it should be done.
If you want to state your opinion -- whether support or worry -- on setting HTTPS canonical for the Uzbek Wikipedia, please do so. I am sure it will support the Foundation in making the right decision. All the best greetings. On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Anonymous User <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Is it enough to set the <link rel="canonical">, or is it also >> necessary to redirect? >> > > When I asked the nice folks at Google's search team, they answered me the > following: > > * The best answer would for them to use rel=canonical tags so that > http://example.wikimedia.uz points to http*s*://example.wikimedia.uz. So > I'd send them this page: > http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394 and > tell them to start doing that. If they're very serious (and it's a small > property, so there's not much risk) then they could make every http page > 301 to the https version as well. > > > > I don't know how much effort each of these two measures would be. If you'd > ask me, I would suggest to be "very serious", but we are not under a > deadline (the situation has been like this for more than a year now), and > setting the rel="caonical" would already be really, really helpful. > > Thank you all for your encouraging comments so far. > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
