Hi Srikanth (too many Srikanths!). Right now, you
can use only one
language at a time. Would links to multiple language wikis be useful?
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
rsrikanth05(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yuvi,
Is this for one laguage at a time only, or any language, any time?
--Regards,
Srikanth R.
On 14 April 2011 11:18, Vickram Crishna <vvcrishna(a)radiophony.com>wrote;wrote:
> I'm forwarding this to an acquaintance in Google, with a request to
> include multilingual results as a link in regular searches.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <
> srik.lak(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Great!! What more, this comes on Tamil New year !!
>>
>> Agree with Sundar that Google must push this from server side. Instead
>> of spending huge money on translations etc, these efforts actually help
>> Indic / regional language Wikipedia's
>>
>> Regards
>> Srikanth.L
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:58, BalaSundaraRaman <
>> sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Great, Yuvi. Let's all use this feature ourselves and hopefully
>>> Google will take not of it and promote the other language wiki pages in
>>> their search results themselves.
>>>
>>> - Sundar
>>>
>>> "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a
>>> medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
>>> - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
>>>
>>> --- On *Thu, 4/14/11, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com>* wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google
>>> (With a Chrome Extension)
>>> To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia."
<
>>> wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>>> Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:31 AM
>>>
>>>
>>> Update: I've now added ability to change language. Just go to
>>> 'Options' (from the extensions page) and enter your language code
(hi
>>> for hindi, etc). Needs a big UX liftup though.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Yuvi Panda
<yuvipanda@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=yuvipanda@gmail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I've been working for a few hours on a Chrome extension to add
>>> links
>>> > to Indic Language Wiki pages when searching in Google. It hooks
>>> into
>>> > Google's search results, and if it finds an enwiki article (to
>>> which a
>>> > tawiki interwiki link also exists), it'll display it side by side.
>>> > Screenshot here:
http://min.us/mbmIeeUOb8y00p#1
>>> >
>>> > You can test the extension by installing it from here:
>>> >
>>>
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gpoogepkjnjfmpijnpaocncdjbedaee…
>>> >
>>> > It is open source, and the code is available here:
>>> >
https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/. You can file issues
>>> here
>>> >
https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/issues/.
>>> >
>>> > Known issues:
>>> > 1. Doesn't work when Google Instant is turned on (turn it off)
>>> > 2. Doesn't work for some country specific subdomains (which
don't
>>> have
>>> > /search url part. Current solution: use
google.com :P)
>>> > 3. Currently hardcoded to display links to tawiki only (Will have
>>> to
>>> > build an options dialog to support other languages)
>>> > 4. Needs a better logo (Help in this department would be highly
>>> appreciated :) )
>>> >
>>> > I think this is one step forward in fixing the search issue -
>>> > discovering content in Indic Language wikis is now easier.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks to Srikanth Lakshmanan for alpha testing.
>>> >
>>> > Feedback welcome :)
>>> >
>>> > P.S. I'm also working on a Firefox version of this addon. Stay
>>> tuned :)
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Yuvi Panda T
>>> >
http://yuvi.in/blog
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
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