Hi!
I spent today looking at identifying and converting
queries typed on the
wrong keyboard on the English and Russian Wikipedias.
That's a great idea to address that. I do it all the time :) Though, I
use different keyboard лаыоут ("phonetic"[1] one, not "йцукен" [2]
one)
but that's because I write most of the time in English. People that
write most of the time in Russian would probably use the traditional
Russian one [2].
[1]
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0…
- sorry, no enwiki article yet :)
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCUKEN
Interestingly enough, google when you search for дштгч (linux) does
search for Linux, but duckduckgo not only searches for Linux but also
presents as a first result Linux page of Russian wikipedia! I think it's
pretty smart.
P.S. both google and ddg know to handle уoutube (with cyrillic first
letter) too.
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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org