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 <dusankre...@gmail.com> 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 <bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com>: > > 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) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/4O7NJ2YXXQRNEEI5ZVKI4WVN2KLZUDTH/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/252G5BCKCEPHBAOFCIDTNMYPBKY5XTUQ/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org