As a clarification, if you check Google News ( http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=site%3Aen.wikinews.org&cf=all&scoring=n), you will see a few results after the 16th come up. These are all articles with at least 3 numbers in their titles. It just so happens that on the 16th there was a software rollout where they added a sensible feature that screwed up. ::shrugs::
That being said, it sucks that we're temporarily Google News-less, but try not to piss off the dev's too much. Obviously it isn't the end of the world if it took 9 days to be noticed (I found this about 24 hours ago). Hopefully with some votes to the bug we can get this fixed. In the mean time, I don't think we should bother with the crazy date hacks or what not that we've done before. IMHO that stuff caused more problems that it was worth. -Jon On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 00:33, bawolff <[email protected]<bawolff%[email protected]> > wrote: > ShakataGaNai recently discovered that it appears we are no longer > being syndicated by google news as of september 16. Anyways, thought > i'd mail the list in case people are wondering why we dissapeared off > google news. > > The cause appears to be do to changes in mediawiki, giving the > googlebot the noindex flag. See > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20818 . > > -- > - Bawolff > Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 > million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikinews-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l > -- Jon [[User:ShakataGaNai]] http://snowulf.com/ - Blog http://snowulf.imagekind.com/ - Pictures This has been a test of the emergency sig system.
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