Special:MobileCite not optimized to prevent indexing
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	Jun 6 2016, 2:37 AM

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Special:MobileCite should not have a rel canoncial link, nor should it be indexable for search engines. Visit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileCite/722891576?mobileaction=beta for an example.

Presently you'll see something like the following in the <head>:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileCite/722891576"/>

But we wouldn't want to point at the desktop domain for this page.

And you'll notice the following is absent:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>

Although the Description in T136617 suggests that the non-indexing directive is in place it in fact is missing. The discussion on that task suggests we really don't want these pages indexed, so we should make sure the directive is in place.

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Declined		None	T123328 [GOAL] Lazy load references in mobile skin
Duplicate		None	T137154 Deploy lazy loaded images to tl.m.wikipedia.org
Duplicate		None	T137081 Special:MobileCite not optimized to prevent indexing
Resolved		phuedx	T137822 Deploy lazy loaded images and references to tl.m.wikipedia.org
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dr0ptp4kt created this task.Jun 6 2016, 2:37 AM

Restricted Application added subscribers: Zppix, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJun 6 2016, 2:37 AM

dr0ptp4kt renamed this task from Special:MobileCite not optimized against indexing to Special:MobileCite not optimized to prevent indexing.Jun 6 2016, 2:38 AM

dr0ptp4kt added a parent task: T134003: Deploy lazy loaded images to a few more wikis.

Danny_B added a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.Jun 6 2016, 4:07 PM

dr0ptp4kt added a project: Web-Team-Backlog.Jun 6 2016, 4:13 PM

Gather had this on the special page if you want to look at some code that does this.

dr0ptp4kt triaged this task as High priority.Jun 6 2016, 4:35 PM

dr0ptp4kt set the point value for this task to 1.Jun 6 2016, 4:40 PM

dr0ptp4kt removed a parent task: T134003: Deploy lazy loaded images to a few more wikis.Jun 6 2016, 4:46 PM

dr0ptp4kt edited projects, added Reading-Web-Sprint-75-Quantitative-Paralysis; removed Reading-Web-Sprint-74-Page-views-page-views-PAGE-VIEWS.Jun 6 2016, 5:03 PM

dr0ptp4kt moved this task from Incoming to 2016-17 Q2 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Jun 6 2016, 5:09 PM

Florian moved this task from To triage to Extension-related special pages on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.Jun 6 2016, 6:25 PM

dr0ptp4kt mentioned this in T136617: Properly canonicalize Special:MobileCite pages and article backlink.Jun 6 2016, 8:44 PM

dr0ptp4kt added a parent task: T137154: Deploy lazy loaded images to tl.m.wikipedia.org.Jun 6 2016, 8:56 PM