On 24 Feb 2021, at 06:55, Federico Leva (Nemo) via Commons-l commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l, 23/02/21 22:36:
Special:Search also functions at its best in English, and is not necessarily friendly to other languages.
This is not true. I think you meant to say that the text in Commons is mostly English, while the new structured search is expected to be able to leverage more multilingual content.
It’s also worth noting that the Wikidata Infobox includes some search engine optimisation for other languages - i.e., it embeds Wikidata labels from different languages in the category contents, so Special:Search can pick up on them and return the relevant category links. That doesn’t help with media files, though, where the new search looks like a great step forward for multilingual support.
Thanks, Mike