Hi Pax, I believe that WMF Discovery is the team that is best suited to address matters like this, so I am forwarding your email to the Discovery mailing list.
Pine On Aug 7, 2016 16:46, "Pax Ahimsa Gethen" <list-wikime...@funcrunch.org> wrote: > In a recent thread about improving search, I posted a comment about a > possible hazard of relying on Google to search Wikipedia.[1] I explained > that Google had been displaying a text snippet from an outdated, disruptive > revision of the Gender page.[2] Well, that error has now resurfaced, and at > an editor's suggestion I posted to the Village Pump about it.[3] The > initial response at VP was essentially "not our problem; go away" which was > not exactly encouraging. > > I'm sorry but if a major search engine is erroneously telling people that > Wikipedia is stating " There are only 2 genders. Male and Female", that is > a cause of concern for me, and I want to know if or how this problem can be > fixed. As I explained on the talk page and in the Village Pump, Google's > cache of the actual page is up to date; it's just the snippet that is wrong. > > - Pax > > [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-July/ > 084890.html > > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gender&oldid=722247975 > > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(techni > cal)#Google_returning_outdated_text_snippet_for_Gender_page > > -- > Pax Ahimsa Gethen | http://funcrunch.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
