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:
Kind regards,
Butch
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023, 5:13 PM James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> 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 Not sure if they have been
replaced by anyone.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 <bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com>
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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