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.org> wrote:
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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