I think "external sites" isn't quite what this is proposing - it's generating crosslinks to Wikidata and Commons, and potentially through those to alternate-language versions. It's still remaining within the general ecosystem of our projects, and if we signpost that clearly I don't see a problem.
For what it's worth, "please link to other languages in search" (usually "if there's no local result") has been a feature request on and off for the best part of ten years :-)
Andrew.
On 20 November 2013 09:27, Jared Zimmerman jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Do we have any other instances where we link to external sites within search results, this seems slightly concerning to me.
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Matthew Flaschen < mflaschen@wikimedia.org> wrote:
CCing the design list.
Matt Flaschen
On 11/18/2013 04:41 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, In the latest hack by Magnus, he has expanded the search capability to Wikidata so that you will get automatically generated descriptions but also a link to Commons, a link to the Wikipedias and a link to the Reasonator.
The last bit is extra special because it will show you information in the language of the Wiki with a fall back to English. At this stage Reasonator only works for people. (ie "is a" "human").
What we would like is to have a nice logo for the Reasonator. it should look good as an icon in the search and it should look good on a bigger scale. I asked Lydia and, she may throw in a Wikidata T-shirt if she likes the result.
I blogged about all this, [1] and, there is a link included that explains how to add the search capability to your Wikipedia profile. Thanks, Gerard
[1] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.sk/2013/11/ask-and- it-will-be-given-to-you-ii.html
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