All, My mistake. The pages in Google's index that I used for sampling - the ones that have "Sorry, ..." in their description in Google search results - are cached pages. I assumed incorrectly that those pages were based on recent indexing (e.g., in the past few days).
I think we can actually stick to the original plan of Google re-indexing and the search results de-emphasizing the <language>.zero.wikipedia.orglinks within the next 30 days. I still find it strange that there are <language>.zero.wikipedia.org links that turned up higher in the search engine rankings than their better-established <language>.wikipedia.org counterparts. But I suppose with fewer competing page elements, especially on long-tail articles with fewer or no direct links to the desktop page, this is maybe not totally unexpected. -Adam On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Adam Baso <ab...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello All, > > We had shelved my patch, patch 64629<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/64629>, > in hopes that an earlier patch, patch > 61809<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/61809>(bug > 35233 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35233>), would > resolve the issue naturally as Google re-indexed. But it appears Google has > re-indexed and yet the .zero.wikipedia.org URLs are still present in > Google's index, instead of the <language>.wikipedia.org URLs. > > I have thus resubmitted patch 64629 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/64629> for > re-review. We will need to further discuss whether it is appropriate to > have Google completely remove .zero.wikipedia.org links from their cache, > or if perhaps we need to open a support thread with Google about canonical > URLs. > > > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Kul Wadhwa <kwad...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Adam Baso (copied on this email) is working on it and a fix is ready. >> He'll do some testing to make sure it's resolved. >> >> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Tomasz Finc <tf...@wikimedia.org>wrote: >> >>> Looping Dan Foy in who's managing the Zero backlog. >>> >>> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: >>> > K. Peachey wrote: >>> >>Can you please file this in bugzilla <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org>? >>> > >>> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48856 >>> > >>> > >>> > MZMcBride >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Wikimedia-l mailing list >>> > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list >>> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Kul Wadhwa >> Head of Mobile >> Wikimedia Foundation >> > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l