Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension)

Yuvi, Is this for one laguage at a time only, or any language, any time? --Regards, Srikanth R. On 14 April 2011 11:18, Vickram Crishna &lt;vvcrishna(a)radiophony.com&gt;wrote;wrote: > I'm forwarding this to an acquaintance in Google, with a request to > include multilingual results as a link in regular searches. > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan < > srik.lak(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> Great!! What more, this comes on Tamil New year !! >> >> Agree with Sundar that Google must push this from server side. Instead >> of spending huge money on translations etc, these efforts actually help >> Indic / regional language Wikipedia's >> >> Regards >> Srikanth.L >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:58, BalaSundaraRaman < >> sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: >> >>> 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 &lt;yuvipanda(a)gmail.com&gt;* wrote: >>> >>> >>> From: Yuvi Panda &lt;yuvipanda(a)gmail.com&gt; >>> 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&gt; >>> 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<http://mc/compose?to=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/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 :) >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Yuvi Panda T >>> > http://yuvi.in/blog >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Yuvi Panda T >>> http://yuvi.in/blog >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org<http://mc/compose?to=Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > > -- > Vickram > Fool On The Hill <http://communicall.wordpress.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l