Reading/Search Engine Optimization/Sitemaps test

This page describes Wikimedia Audiences and Wikimedia Technology's work to improve Wikipedia presence in search results by creating XML sitemaps for search crawlers (tracked in T198965 on Phabricator). This extended study is a follow-up to the inconclusive analysis of an earlier effort on Italian Wikipedia (cf. ).

Introduction
The following languages have had sitemaps created and submitted to the Google Search Console:


 * Indonesian (idwiki)
 * Italian (itwiki)
 * Korean (kowiki)
 * Dutch (nlwiki, nds_nlwiki)
 * Punjabi (pawiki, pnbwiki)
 * Portuguese (ptwiki)

The following language have been kept from the sameAs A/B test to be used as "controls" in this test:


 * Bhojpuri (bhwiki)
 * Cherokee (chrwiki)
 * Kazakh (kkwiki)
 * Catalan (cawiki)
 * French (frwiki)
 * Yoruba (yowiki)
 * Kalmyk (xalwiki)