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Google knowledge panel says "this article is not reviewed" for some articles on ukwiki
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Feb 1 2026, 5:29 PM
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Description

What happens?: The Google was indexation text: «This article is not reviewed…»

I’m think this associated with FlaggedRevs. See the screenshots.

Other information
This screenshot gives me a user of ukwiki:

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And this is my screenshot, I using the IOS Google Chrome:

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The text on screenshots in Ukrainian language, and up I give the translate.

Event Timeline

For some reason, on Ukrainian Wiki the FlaggedRevs dialog content is embedded in #mw-content-text rather than #mw-content-subtitle as it is on other wikis. This behavior occurs on Vector-2022 but not on legacy Vector.

Novem_Linguae subscribed.

These are called "Google knowledge panels". We don't have a ton of control over what goes into them. The best we could do is probably place a "noindex" meta tag on unreviewed pages. So this is probably a duplicate of T420414: Hide new pages from Indexing for Wiki with review enabled.

If you think that solution would be good for ukwiki, please post in that ticket saying that ukwiki is interested, so that I know to apply any patch in that ticket to both ukwiki and plwiki (who originally requested it), or maybe even to all FlaggedRevs wikis.

Novem_Linguae renamed this task from Google gave a text of review status of articles to Google knowledge panel says "this article is not reviewed" for some articles on ukwiki.Mar 24 2026, 7:54 AM

Google parses page content from #mw-content-text. For some reason, as mentioned above, the FlaggedRevs dialog is embedded in #mw-content-text rather than #mw-content-subtitle, as it is on other wikis.

I ran a few checks:

Update: It seems that the placement of the content does not matter. Even on stable articles where the notice message is in #mw-content-subtitle, Google still shows the message in the search results.

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https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Автомагістраль

Are you talking about the mw-indicators I highlighted below in orange, or something else?

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About where the boxes that appear on hover are placed in the DOM.

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Steps to reproduce:

  • install FlaggedRevs on localhost. use default settings ($wgFlaggedRevsOverride = true; $wgFlaggedRevsProtection = false;).
  • log out
  • create an article
  • hover over the "Unchecked" indicator in the top right corner. the review dialog will pop up
  • review dialog - > right click -> inspect

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What happens?

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What should happen instead?

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Testing notes:

  • hard refresh whenever you make a code change, to clear that page's cache

Change #1259861 had a related patch set uploaded (by Novem Linguae; author: Novem Linguae):

[mediawiki/extensions/FlaggedRevs@master] FlaggablePageView: always insert review dialog in mw-content-subtitle

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1259861

Update: It seems that the placement of the content does not matter. Even on stable articles where the notice message is in #mw-content-subtitle, Google still shows the message in the search results.

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https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Автомагістраль

Just now saw your edited comment. I already wrote a patch moving the review dialog from mw-content-text to mw-content-subtitle. Think we should still merge it? I'm leaning yes, since it'd be good to place the review dialog consistently.

I think it will definitely help, especially as another attempt to figure out the best placement for this kind of content. Thanks for the patch!

What I don’t understand is how Google strips the notice message when the detailed view is enabled by default instead of indicators (in ruwiki for example). This box is also placed in #mw-content-subtitle. My only theory is that they apply a rule to strip content with the .noprint CSS class.

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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Mercure

Change #1259861 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/FlaggedRevs@master] FlaggablePageView: always insert review dialog in mw-content-subtitle

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1259861

Looks like this is fixed for now.

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