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Bug 34593 - Google searches for a wiki's sitenotice content should not match all pages
Google searches for a wiki's sitenotice content should not match all pages
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest minor with 1 vote (vote)
: Future release
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2012-02-22 15:25 UTC by Krinkle
Modified: 2014-11-17 10:36 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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2012-02-22 15:25 UTC, Krinkle
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Description Krinkle 2012-02-22 15:25:49 UTC
Created attachment 10068 [details]
Example for fr.wikipedia

Not a huge deal but perhaps something we can do about. Does Google support some kind of partial noindex thing for content that is not page-specific (Something semantic like "<aside>" or "<header>" maybe?)
Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2012-02-22 19:45:15 UTC
Hrm..... is Google picking up things from DismissableSiteNotice now?
Comment 2 Krinkle 2012-03-05 06:10:22 UTC
Yeah, I guess the rumors are true about Google starting to process basic javascript/ajax stuff. I didn't think this was one of the things it was going to do.

From what I read last year they were planning to do that only for urls following the #!/ syntax like:
https://twitter.com/#!/Wikipedia
Comment 3 Yusuke Matsubara 2012-05-02 06:04:32 UTC
Google supports "googleon/googleoff" flags to make certain portion of a page to be invisible from their indexers.

https://developers.google.com/search-appliance/documentation/46/admin_crawl/Preparing#pagepart

I guess this hint should be put on the sitenotice section by default, regardless of whether it's shown via CentralNotice or normal sitenotice.

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