On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 4:20 PM Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org> wrote:
For some reasons, it is true for
"kitimaguru", but if I search for
"lamp" (EN) versus "lampe" (FR), or "key" (English) versus
"clé"
(French), I really do not get the same results at all
I noticed that Hay just added a locale switcher, which as of this
writing allows you to switch into Dutch. As the list of locales
expands, you should get better results in each of those languages.
https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/sdsearch/
When the language is set to English, it will match against
labels/aliases in other languages, but will privilege matches against
English labels/aliases, and show the English description. It's
basically the equivalent of typing into the Wikidata search box, with
the Wikidata language set to English. Because there is no English
match for the Swahili word, that one works well even when the language
is set to English -- it'll rank the Swahili match as the first result.
But if you type "clé" into the Wikidata search box in English, the
first result is "Cleveland".
Warmly,
Erik