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

Fri Apr 15 14:21:32 UTC 2011

Yuvi,
Personally yes. I would like to have links to Hindi, Marathi and Tamil
simultaneously.
I am crazy. :)
Regards,
Srikanth R.
P.S: Srikanth L and I are the original Srikanth's >.. : P

On 14 April 2011 19:41, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Srikanth (too many Srikanths!). Right now, you can use only one language
> at a time. Would links to multiple language wikis be useful?
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> rsrikanth05 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 <vvcrishna at radiophony.com> 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 at gmail.com> 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 at yahoo.com>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 <yuvipanda at gmail.com>* wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda at 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 at 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 at 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/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:
>>>>> > 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
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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