On 2015-02-09 2:16 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > This of course would add some additional payload to pages with lots of > language links, but could help avoid results like [2] where the English > language version of an article is #1 and the Indonesian one makes no > appearance at all. Results vary greatly and it's hard to say how big a > problem this is, but even if boosts discoverability of content in the > user's language by only 10% or so, that would still be a pretty big win for > local content. I think we used to have <link>s in the head (though the exact implementation may have been wrong), if it wasn't a problem then it wouldn't be one now.
Also if it really is a problem for Wikipedia Google also supports getting this data from the sitemap. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en So if it's a problem we could upgrade the sitemap generator to include this data (maybe as an extra parameter) and we could have a config setting that disables the <head> output. That should work out pretty well. Small wiki setups don't have many language links so <link>s in the <head> aren't an issue. And if a wiki setup is big enough to have an issue, then it's probably big enough to be using sitemaps. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
