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Adding Portuguese Wikinews to the Google News feed via Search Console[edit]
Hi! I recently noticed that Wikinotícias Português is not in the Google News feed, news.google.com, which if added could bring more views to our news. I tried to try to post, but I need the help of a Wikimedia employee to confirm the Search Console domain at https://publishercenter.google.com/publications , and to help me.
Grateful! can anybody help me? Juan90264 (talk) 06:43, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
- @Juan90264: Hi, I guess we've made the loop from phab:T285091. :-/ I admit that it is also unclear to me what who to handle non-access Google Search Console related requests (assuming that phab:T132373 is still correct which states that it's not the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team), and unclear where such requests should be filed (Phabricator? Which project tags? wikitech:Google Search Console access would welcome an additional section, I guess). However, phab:T188453 also mentions that the intention is too keep the pool of domains small. Hmm, hmm... Maybe User:EBjune (WMF) has some idea? I'm sorry that I don't have a good answer myself. :-/ --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 19:14, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
- I'm actually not sure at this point, but am going to suggest asking User:CBogen (WMF) and User:GLederrey (WMF) as it may be something that can be routed through those working on SEO issues in the Product team, or the Search folks may have an idea. --EBjune (WMF)17:07, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
- @CBogen (WMF): @GLederrey (WMF): Does any of you know who to handle non-access Google Search Console related requests? Thanks in advance! --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 13:03, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
- The Search Platform team is only responsible for our internal search engine. We have no interactions with Google and have no idea how to access Google Search Console --GLederrey (WMF) (talk) 18:51, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
- I dared to file phab:T290711 about sorting out how and where this is handled, as this generally seems to be unclear. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 06:16, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
- The Search Platform team is only responsible for our internal search engine. We have no interactions with Google and have no idea how to access Google Search Console --GLederrey (WMF) (talk) 18:51, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
- @CBogen (WMF): @GLederrey (WMF): Does any of you know who to handle non-access Google Search Console related requests? Thanks in advance! --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 13:03, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
User3 Template[edit]
Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this. On my local Wikipedia, the Template:User3 is not displaying ⧼dot-separator⧽ properly. See w:km:ទំព័រគំរូ:User3. This is what it looks like on English Wikipedia: w:en:Template:User3. Can someone help me with this? Thanks. --Trezoo (talk) 01:34, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
- @Trezoo thats because on enwiki, `dot-separator` is a custom system message, created at w:MediaWiki:Dot-separator, while for kmwiki, the message doesn't exist (w:km:MediaWiki:Dot-separator) and when trying to render a message that doesn't exist the name is shown instead. DannyS712 (talk) 02:04, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
- The dot-separator message is invoked indirectly, by w:km:Special:Permalink/260786#L-740 and w:km:Special:Permalink/260792#L-38 --DannyS712 (talk) 02:07, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
DARK MODE !![edit]
hi there,
my question/remark is really simple, WHY a website like wikipedia doesn't have a dark mode ???? trying to check something at night is nightmare, so much white at late hours is guaranteed to mess with the eyes ! at this day and age "dark mode" it's ubiquitous throughout the internet, there is no reason why wikipedia would be left behind.
thanks :)
P.S : it's not that hard to implement, a few line of CSS and VOILA!
good luck and good job to all supporters of the platform ! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 160.179.240.94 (talk)