Le mar. 1 août 2023 à 12:03, Sohom Datta <dattasoh...@gmail.com> a écrit :

> For everyone :
>>
> Plus, the problem is not *better* indexing (that would be great of
>> course), the problem here is that a lot (if not most) Wikisource pages are
>> *not* indexed!
>> If you type "when men went up in balloons" or "The banners rustle in the
>> breeze" in Google (taken from the previous examples), Wikisource doesn't
>> appear at all (and for other examples, when it does, it's incomplete and
>> with a long delay of - at least - several months, the first example was
>> done last week, the second was created in February!).
>> That's why some of us suspect something is wrong somewhere (maybe because
>> of the proofread extension ? and that Google doesn't "see" our pages.
>
> I've tested a bunch of non-indexed pages (some of which are from 2011)
> across multiple Wikisources, it shows up as "URL is available to Google''
> (indicating that Googlebot can see the page). I am pretty sure that there
> is no issue wrt to this specific thing on ProofreadPage/Wikisource
> extension's side (there could be one on Google's end?)
>

Strange. What does Googlebot index if *nothing* appears on Google search
engine?

I'll be at Wikimania in Singapore but not at the Google-Mind The Gap event.

Cheers,

Nicolas
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