>
> Has anyone tried telling the Google Search Console to index all the
> Wikisource language domains? Presumably a Foundation sysadmin would
> need to add the ownership verification tokens to do so:
> https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome
This has already been done for a while.
> for what I've read, it suffices to generate a sitemap file with MediaWiki
> and how to submit it to Google. There is a script for
> that: generateSitemap.php.
>
Once done, the sitemap has to be updated regularly in order to include the
> new pages.
I did look into this, but it seems like we do not generate sitemaps for any
sites right now ? The closest I got was
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198965 which mentions that we did
generate them around 2018 and hosted them on sitemaps.wikimedia.org,
however they were recently (in Jun 2023) deleted due to the sitemaps being
out of date and not helping our SEO rankings for Wikipedia.
Also while digging this up right now, I came across
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332101#8898869 which assumes that Google
uses a RCFeed/EventStreams API provided by the Wikimedia Foundation to
index pages. Is this true in the case of Wikisource, could it be possible
that they (Google) might not be using this for Wikisource and/or Wikisource
pages are getting filtered out (on Wikimedia Foundation's end) due to some
configuration error ?
Regards,
Sohom Datta
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Open-source contributor @Wikimedia, @Chromium
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 8:59 PM Amir Sarabadani wrote:
> See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325607#8846296 and onwards
>
> Am Di., 1. Aug. 2023 um 17:27 Uhr schrieb Lauren Worden <
> laurenworde...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Has anyone tried telling the Google Search Console to index all the
>> Wikisource language domains? Presumably a Foundation sysadmin would
>> need to add the ownership verification tokens to do so:
>> https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome
>>
>> -LW
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 7:53 AM Dušan Kreheľ
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hm.
>> >
>> > Page: La akonca (1888) (be.wikisource.org)
>> > Created day with the last modification: 17:26, 7 July 2023 CEST
>> > Indexed by Google: 7. júl 2023 18:21:14 UTC
>> >
>> > Not indexed: https://be.wikisource.org/wiki/Alkahol_(1913)
>> >
>> >
>> > 2023-08-01 8:47 GMT+02:00, Bodhisattwa :
>> > > 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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