Hi Everyone, I think this is a good opportunity to discuss with Google's Search Team here in Singapore in 2 weeks time.
You can register at Wikimania pre-Conference at this link: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Related_events/Mind_The_Gap Kind regards, Butch On Tue, Aug 1, 2023, 5:13 PM James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > Am having the same issue with Google poorly indexing MDWiki.org. I have > personally switched my default browser to duckduckgo as they index much > better. The two folks at Google who used to support their collaborations > with Wikipedia are no longer with the company. Not sure if they have been > replaced by anyone. > > James > > > On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 12:51 AM Bodhisattwa <[email protected]> > 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) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/ECNVHN45JW67B6RADFYSQ3V43FJOB6KD/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/RPHXHH7JTKELZQTO3PACVNNZL75IDPNJ/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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