[Labs-l] google search for 'wikimedia labs' gives the wrong result

Wed May 2 07:57:30 UTC 2012

For now I have changed http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page so
that it clearly say that deployment is a part of wikimedia labs with
url to both projects, so that google at least should index console as
well. If we need to fix this, removal of wiki is not only solution,
google display pages with most of links from other sites on top, so
that if we linked labs console from more places, especially
mediawiki.org, we might get it to the top as well

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Chad Horohoe <chorohoe at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> More out of interest than anything else, why is it so hard/impossible to
>>> fully delete wikis?  Is it simply that it's never been done before and so
>>> there's no process for doing it?  (In which case what about instances like
>>> september11wiki?)  Or is there some circular dependency that can't be
>>> broken?
>>>
>>
>> As far as I know we've just never done it, so nothing exists for doing
>> it cleanly.
>>
>
> I think it's out of paranoia more than anything. In theory we should
> be able to do it, but we're afraid of things like CentralAuth that may
> have dangling references to the now-gone wiki.
>
> If we documented the process really well the first time we did it, I
> don't think it'll be as hard as we think.
>
> -Chad
>
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