To better index, you must follow as much as possible structured page.
More gadget you use, more unreadable is the pages to the machines.
Try to have a blind person reading the Wikisource pages with their own
tools. Will it be difficult for them? Found the problem.
You want to create pages which are more user friendly? But you do it for
people having eyes. Machines doesn't have eyes.
KInd regards
On 01/08/2023 08:47, Bodhisattwa wrote:
Hello all,
Apologies for cross-posting.
For those who have not noticed till now, Google is not indexing any
Wikisource language editions for the last couple of years which
practically means that any Wikisource contents in any languages, which
are being created in these years, are not searchable on Google and
hence largely remain invisible on the web.
This is an extremely demotivating and frustrating situation for the
existing Wikisource volunteers to witness, draining away all of our
past and current efforts to bring and retain viewers, readers, GLAM
partners and any potential new editors. We already have a very low
awareness and visibility about Wikisource among general internet users
due to lack of organized support in these years but the invisibility
on Google search engine could become the last nail in our coffin,
unless it is fixed soon.
There is a phabricator ticket raised by Darwinius back in December
2022 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325607.
Can't this issue be put into priority by sys admins and WMF to work
upon? Wikisource is still a sister project of Wikimedia and it needs
some very basic care, after all.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(Bengali Wikisource volunteer)
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