Great, Yuvi. Let's all use this feature ourselves and hopefully Google will take not of it and promote the other language wiki pages in their search results themselves.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
--- On Thu, 4/14/11, Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com wrote:
From: Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension) To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:31 AM
Update: I've now added ability to change language. Just go to 'Options' (from the extensions page) and enter your language code (hi for hindi, etc). Needs a big UX liftup though.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com wrote:
I've been working for a few hours on a Chrome extension to add links to Indic Language Wiki pages when searching in Google. It hooks into Google's search results, and if it finds an enwiki article (to which a tawiki interwiki link also exists), it'll display it side by side. Screenshot here: http://min.us/mbmIeeUOb8y00p#1
You can test the extension by installing it from here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gpoogepkjnjfmpijnpaocncdjbedaeeo...
It is open source, and the code is available here: https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/. You can file issues here https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/issues/.
Known issues:
- Doesn't work when Google Instant is turned on (turn it off)
- Doesn't work for some country specific subdomains (which don't have
/search url part. Current solution: use google.com :P) 3. Currently hardcoded to display links to tawiki only (Will have to build an options dialog to support other languages) 4. Needs a better logo (Help in this department would be highly appreciated :) )
I think this is one step forward in fixing the search issue - discovering content in Indic Language wikis is now easier.
Thanks to Srikanth Lakshmanan for alpha testing.
Feedback welcome :)
P.S. I'm also working on a Firefox version of this addon. Stay tuned :)
-- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog