See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325607#8846296 and onwards
Am Di., 1. Aug. 2023 um 17:27 Uhr schrieb Lauren Worden < [email protected]>: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>: > > > 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 -- [email protected], 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/[email protected]/message/4O7NJ2YXXQRNEEI5ZVKI4WVN2KLZUDTH/ > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], 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/[email protected]/message/252G5BCKCEPHBAOFCIDTNMYPBKY5XTUQ/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] -- Amir (he/him)
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