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**Request Status:** New Request **Request Type:** break-fix **Related OKRs:** **Request Title:** Google search traffic sending users to the wrong Chinese language versions of Wikipedia -- - **Request Description:** Our counterparts at Google reached out to say their engineering team is having a technical issue where Google Search results are displaying or linking to the wrong versions of Chinese Wikipedia. Specifically, the technical issues cited by the Google team are: When Chinese Wikipedia makes on-the-fly C2C conversion (plus some word replacement), the Google system can't tell which Chinese variant it is receiving unless href="/wiki/....." is replaced with href="/zh-{region}/...." It seems this isn't working because of the automatic referrer-dependent redirection. Google has asked if it would be possible for Wikipedia to stop redirecting zh.wikipedia.org/zh-{region,script}/<subject> coming from Google search (or Google crawler) to zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/<subject> because as long as this redirects Google cannot send its users to the right version of Chinese Wikipedia. We can also arrange a meeting to troubleshoot this together with their team if that would help expedite a solution. Let me know if there's any information missing and I'd be happy to share it or find it. Thanks! - **Indicate Priority Level:** High - **Main Requestors:** @Nicholas_Perry - **Ideal Delivery Date:** As soon as possible - **Stakeholders:** **Internal**: Not sure **External**: Chinese language users of Google Search **Request Documentation** -- |**Document Type**| **Required?** | **Document/Link** | | **Related PHAB Tickets** | Yes | https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305367 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108443#6279559 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294716 | | **Product One Pager** | Yes |<add link here> | | **Product Requirements Document (PRD)** | Yes | <add link here> | | **Product Roadmap** | No | <add link here> | | **Product Planning/Business Case** | No |<add link here> | | **Product Brief** | No | <add link here> | | **Other Links** | No |<add links here> |

**Request Status:** New Request **Request Type:** break-fix **Related OKRs:** **Request Title:** Google search traffic sending users to the wrong Chinese language versions of Wikipedia -- - **Request Description:** Our counterparts at Google reached out to say their engineering team is having a technical issue where Google Search results are displaying or linking to the wrong versions of Chinese Wikipedia. Specifically, the technical issues cited by the Google team are: When Chinese Wikipedia makes on-the-fly C2C conversion (plus some word replacement), the Google system can't tell which Chinese variant it is receiving unless href="/wiki/....." is replaced with href="/zh-{region}/...." It seems this isn't working because of the automatic referrer-dependent redirection. Google has asked if it would be possible for Wikipedia to stop redirecting zh.wikipedia.org/zh-{region,script}/<subject> coming from Google search (or Google crawler) to zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/<subject> because as long as this redirects Google cannot send its users to the right version of Chinese Wikipedia. We can also arrange a meeting to troubleshoot this together with their team if that would help expedite a solution. Let me know if there's any information missing and I'd be happy to share it or find it. Thanks! - **Indicate Priority Level:** High - **Main Requestors:** @Nicholas_Perry - **Ideal Delivery Date:** As soon as possible - **Stakeholders:** **Internal**: Not sure **External**: Chinese language users of Google Search **Request Documentation** -- |**Document Type**| **Required?** | **Document/Link** | | **Related PHAB Tickets** | Yes | {T305367} https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108443#6279559 {T294716} | | **Product One Pager** | Yes |<add link here> | | **Product Requirements Document (PRD)** | Yes | <add link here> | | **Product Roadmap** | No | <add link here> | | **Product Planning/Business Case** | No |<add link here> | | **Product Brief** | No | <add link here> | | **Other Links** | No |<add links here> |

**Request Status:** New Request **Request Type:** break-fix **Related OKRs:** **Request Title:** Google search traffic sending users to the wrong Chinese language versions of Wikipedia -- - **Request Description:** Our counterparts at Google reached out to say their engineering team is having a technical issue where Google Search results are displaying or linking to the wrong versions of Chinese Wikipedia. Specifically, the technical issues cited by the Google team are: When Chinese Wikipedia makes on-the-fly C2C conversion (plus some word replacement), the Google system can't tell which Chinese variant it is receiving unless href="/wiki/....." is replaced with href="/zh-{region}/...." It seems this isn't working because of the automatic referrer-dependent redirection. Google has asked if it would be possible for Wikipedia to stop redirecting zh.wikipedia.org/zh-{region,script}/<subject> coming from Google search (or Google crawler) to zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/<subject> because as long as this redirects Google cannot send its users to the right version of Chinese Wikipedia. We can also arrange a meeting to troubleshoot this together with their team if that would help expedite a solution. Let me know if there's any information missing and I'd be happy to share it or find it. Thanks! - **Indicate Priority Level:** High - **Main Requestors:** @Nicholas_Perry - **Ideal Delivery Date:** As soon as possible - **Stakeholders:** **Internal**: Not sure **External**: Chinese language users of Google Search **Request Documentation** -- |**Document Type**| **Required?** | **Document/Link** | | **Related PHAB Tickets** | Yes | https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/{T305367 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108443#6279559367} https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108443#6279559 {T294716 |} | | **Product One Pager** | Yes |<add link here> | | **Product Requirements Document (PRD)** | Yes | <add link here> | | **Product Roadmap** | No | <add link here> | | **Product Planning/Business Case** | No |<add link here> | | **Product Brief** | No | <add link here> | | **Other Links** | No |<add links here> |