Hi Sam,
We're glad you're using the Portal page more than usual and we hope that with upcoming future enhancements, you'll continue to enjoy it!
For your first question - we are currently focusing on the wikipedia.org portal page at this time. We have no immediate plans to update the individual wiki's with this code but that doesn't mean that anyone in the community can't use our code to update another wiki to use the meta data and images as we did, in the search results.
For your second question, we actually have a ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129627 open to look for input exactly like that. When a user types in a few words that are not in the language that has been previously selected, we're hoping to be able to switch to that "new" language on the fly. I agree that it'll be a very neat feature for us to have on the portal!
Thanks for your input!
Cheers,
Deb
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Sam Klein sjklein@hcs.harvard.edu wrote:
I'm using the portal much more these days! Two thoughts, a few days in:
= Is there a way to turn on thumbnailing on the individual language wikis too?
= Auto-suggesting language based on charset would be nice. when searching in multiple languages I always forget once to switch to the target language and end up getting search results for kanji on he.wp or for hebrew on ja.wp
Thanks, SJ
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Michael Jahn michael.jahn@wikimedia.de wrote:
I've played around a bit. Feels very cool! Michael
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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