Hello,
We disabled this small feature on the wikipedia.org portal page because it essentially didn't work; due to a bug in the API that it uses. We documented it here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126409 and on the Portal Improvements page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal_Improvements#Minor_upda... .
Cheers,
Deb
-- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:41 PM, MF-Warburg mfwarburg@googlemail.com wrote:
What happened to the search box "Find Wikipedia in your language"?
2016-03-11 3:27 GMT+01:00 Deborah Tankersley dtankersley@wikimedia.org:
Hello!
I'm very pleased to announce that we've updated the Wikipedia.org http://wikipedia.org/ portal page with a brand new search box that is more prominent and will now display meta data with images (as available)
in
the search results (see attached image).
This was a large effort by the Discovery Portal team to develop a JavaScript-only version of the language picker, so that JavaScript
enabled
browsers will see all the new meta data. Alongside that effort, we also ensured that in JavaScript (JS) disabled browsers (or older Internet Explorer versions), our visitors won't have a bad experience when
choosing
a language to search in. (Note: in older IE versions and JS disabled browsers, the type-ahead and meta data search results information will
not
be displayed.)
We also implemented a shorter language code (ie: EN for English, ES for Spanish, etc) to allow for more characters to be typed into the search
box.
When a user toggles the language selector, the full language name will be displayed in the dropdown for easy finding of the language you prefer to search in. For the more technical minded - I've attached a screenshot of one of the ways we test our code, visually.
We're interested in hearing your feedback or if you have any questions!
On behalf of the very happy Wikipedia.org Portal Team,
Deb
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