Hi,
It looks like a very long-awaited may be coming to Wikimedia projects soon:
search results from other languages will be shown.
It happens very frequently that people search in language X while looking
at a Wikipedia in language Y. For example, they search in Russian while
looking at the English Wikipedia. Currently it fails, because search is
limited only to one language.
For years I have been raising this issue with the Foundation's management,
and it looks like this is going to be addressed.
Wikimedia's search team (also known as Discovery) has already enabled
showing results from other Wikimedia projects near the search results, for
example showing results from the English Wikisource in the sidebar of the
search results of the English Wikipedia. It is now experimenting with
showing results from other languages.
Currently it looks like the prioritized languages will be the same as the
languages that are suggested by UniversalLanguageSelector, namely the
language of the browser and the operating system, previously clicked
languages, and languages found by geolocation. This may be tweaked in the
future.
Note that this is not being developed by the Language team in the
Foundation, but by the Search team.
You can read more about it at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/explor…
and there's a demo at:
http://sistersearch.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?search=~rainbow&title=Speci…
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