Prevent web crawler from indexing buttons in content
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	Sep 15 2017, 5:02 AM

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The user interface buttons in the content like the edit section buttons ([edit]) get crawled and indexed by search engines.

Example: https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=site:wikipedia.org+%22Gebr%C3%A4uchliche+dezimale+Vielfache%22 finds:

Meter - Wikipedia
Gebräuchliche dezimale Vielfache [Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]. Die Einheit Meter ist mit verschiedenen dezimalen Vielfachen (auch SI-Präfixen) in Verwendung, beispielsweise
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter

It would be nice to hide these user interface buttons ([Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]) for web crawler.

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	Project	Branch	Lines +/-	Subject
	mediawiki/core	master	+248 -223	Use CSS instead of HTML to generate edit section buttons

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Mentioned In: T50256: Make brackets in section edit links accessible to CSS
Mentioned Here: rMWce6ae6ada0a3: ResourceLoaderLessVarFileModule: Add parameter 'lessMessages'

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Fomafix created this task.Sep 15 2017, 5:02 AM

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https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/425470 (rMWce6ae6ada0a3) allows to generate localized user interface messages via CSS.

Fomafix mentioned this in T50256: Make brackets in section edit links accessible to CSS.Oct 7 2018, 6:18 PM

Change 508751 had a related patch set uploaded (by Fomafix; owner: Fomafix):
[mediawiki/core@master] [WIP] Use CSS to generate editsection buttons

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/508751

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 8 2019, 5:37 AM

Fomafix claimed this task.May 8 2019, 6:08 AM

Have you taken into consideration accessibility implications of supplying essentially empty links to users? As long as we’re supporting Internet Explorer 11, there are issues with that.

Pppery edited projects, added Patch-Needs-Improvement; removed Patch-For-Review.Mar 23 2023, 12:57 AM

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