On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Nick Birse <w...@nbir.se> wrote: > Russavia asked me to check this to confirm it wasn't just him or his > regional Google setup, and it's both correct and looking into it further > it's hitting every single page on Wikipedia that Google has indexed. > > If you search for "DEAR WIKIPEDIA READERS: You're probably busy, so we'll > get right to it. This week we ask our readers to help us. This week we ask > our readers to protect our site:en.wikipedia.org" we're both getting > 6,100,000 results. > > If you take, at random, some pages for that search result, and then try to > find those pages through a fairly typical, sensible search result using the > page title or keywords in the article, some search text results show the > fundraising banner text, and other pages show a relevant text excerpt from > the page. > > I'll pass this on to the developers too, but hopefully this helps here too.
The devs have been aware since December 4, based on the date https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76743 was opened. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
