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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)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(a)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(a)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/gpoogepkjnjfmpijnpaocncdjbedaee…
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:
1. Doesn't work when Google Instant is turned on (turn it off)
2. 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 :)
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Yuvi Panda T
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