Enable $wgMFNoindexPages for all wikis
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In T234807: Determine impact of $wgMFNoindexPages search traffic to arwiki, zhwiki, hiwiki, itwiki, nlwiki, kowiki we measured the impact of adding alternate tags for mobile versions of the page for a set of wikis so that the site can be indexed properly. There results were that we did not see any negative effects to pageviews. This task is to turn on the alternate tags for all pages

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add link rel="alternate" to all projects (as in T234807: Determine impact of $wgMFNoindexPages search traffic to arwiki, zhwiki, hiwiki, itwiki, nlwiki, kowiki)

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	Project	Branch	Lines +/-	Subject
	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+1 -7	Enable $wgMFNoindexPages for all wikis

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Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	phuedx	T255458 Enable $wgMFNoindexPages for all wikis
Resolved	MNeisler	T234807 Determine impact of $wgMFNoindexPages search traffic to arwiki, zhwiki, hiwiki, itwiki, nlwiki, kowiki
Resolved	ovasileva	T206497 Enable $wgMFNoindexPages for: Italian, Dutch, Korean, Arabic, Chinese, and Hindi Wikipedias
Resolved	• Imarlier	T205495 Enable $wgMFNoindexPages for beta

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ovasileva created this task.Jun 15 2020, 4:00 PM

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ovasileva edited projects, added Readers-Web-Backlog (Kanbanana-2019-20-Q4); removed Readers-Web-Backlog.Jun 15 2020, 4:01 PM

ovasileva triaged this task as Medium priority.Jun 15 2020, 4:06 PM

What are the risks of turning this on? Do we need to do any validation when the change has been deployed? Is there any situation we might need to rollback?

In T255458#6224886, @Jdlrobson wrote:

What are the risks of turning this on? Do we need to do any validation when the change has been deployed? Is there any situation we might need to rollback?

I think we would probably want to monitor pageviews and ensure they're not going down, perhaps do a quick analysis. Given the results of T234807: Determine impact of $wgMFNoindexPages search traffic to arwiki, zhwiki, hiwiki, itwiki, nlwiki, kowiki, this seems unlikely. @MNeisler - what do you think?

ovasileva added a subtask: T234807: Determine impact of $wgMFNoindexPages search traffic to arwiki, zhwiki, hiwiki, itwiki, nlwiki, kowiki.Jun 16 2020, 12:55 PM

ovasileva closed subtask T234807: Determine impact of $wgMFNoindexPages search traffic to arwiki, zhwiki, hiwiki, itwiki, nlwiki, kowiki as Resolved.

ovasileva mentioned this in T234807: Determine impact of $wgMFNoindexPages search traffic to arwiki, zhwiki, hiwiki, itwiki, nlwiki, kowiki.

In T255458#6227868, @ovasileva wrote:
I think we would probably want to monitor pageviews and ensure they're not going down, perhaps do a quick analysis. Given the results of T234807: Determine impact of $wgMFNoindexPages search traffic to arwiki, zhwiki, hiwiki, itwiki, nlwiki, kowiki, this seems unlikely. @MNeisler - what do you think?

I agree. The results of the analysis do not indicate any reason to suspect a negative change to either desktop or mobile traffic due to this fix. I think maybe a quick review of pageviews (specifically search-referred) following deployment would be sufficient just to confirm no major negative changes have occurred.

MBinder_WMF edited projects, added Readers-Web-Backlog (Kanbanana-FY-2020-21); removed Readers-Web-Backlog (Kanbanana-2019-20-Q4).Jul 9 2020, 5:22 PM

• Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs Analysis to Upcoming on the Readers-Web-Backlog (Kanbanana-FY-2020-21) board.Jul 9 2020, 6:01 PM

Change 621298 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; owner: Jdlrobson):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable $wgMFNoindexPages for all wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/621298

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 19 2020, 3:36 PM

• Jdlrobson moved this task from Upcoming to Doing on the Readers-Web-Backlog (Kanbanana-FY-2020-21) board.Aug 19 2020, 3:36 PM

Change 621298 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable $wgMFNoindexPages for all wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/621298

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 19 2020, 6:10 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2020-08-19T18:15:05Z] <urbanecm@deploy1001> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: a6f8354e7599a5e92bea060807065f5b42c540e5: Enable $wgMFNoindexPages for all wikis (T255458) (duration: 01m 07s)

• Jdlrobson moved this task from Doing to Ready for Signoff on the Readers-Web-Backlog (Kanbanana-FY-2020-21) board.Aug 19 2020, 6:30 PM

phuedx claimed this task.Aug 20 2020, 5:16 PM

@MNeisler @ovasileva: Is there a task tracking the quick review of search-referred pageviews or would you prefer that this be the task so as not to fragment the conversation too much? If the former, then I'll happily sign this task off.

phuedx set the point value for this task to 1.Aug 21 2020, 11:54 AM

I've been bold and estimated this task since it's Ready for Signoff already (/cc @MBinder_WMF). I voted an XS as this was a configuration change and we don't include Product Analytics' work in our estimates.

MNeisler mentioned this in T261018: Check on search-referred pageviews following deployment of $wgMFNoindexPages on all wikis.Aug 21 2020, 8:31 PM

In T255458#6402310, @phuedx wrote:

@MNeisler @ovasileva: Is there a task tracking the quick review of search-referred pageviews or would you prefer that this be the task so as not to fragment the conversation too much? If the former, then I'll happily sign this task off.

I just created a task (T261018) to check pageviews.

Thank you @phuedx and @MNeisler! Resolving this and will follow up on the other task. +1 that we need just a quick check as we did the more thorough analysis in T234807: Determine impact of $wgMFNoindexPages search traffic to arwiki, zhwiki, hiwiki, itwiki, nlwiki, kowiki

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