It's not Google News' fault, it's ours (technically). The short version is that someone changed MediaWiki to tells the bots not to index any page when using ?currid=12345 to access it. The normal (non ?currid) version still works fine.
So what can we do to fix this? Get a dev to either undo this, or create a work around for us. -Jon On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:42, Jason Safoutin <[email protected] > wrote: > And what can we do to fix this? brianmc last I knew had a contact at > Google News...or at least a live person. This upsets me though. > > -- > Jason Safoutin > Wikinews accredited reporter and administrator > [email protected] > > > > bawolff 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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