[Search wiki] A new list for the wiki

Balinny balinny at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 17:40:56 UTC 2008


emijrp wrote:
> I'm not about that. If I search "42", what languages will the search 
> engine show? There are universal or untranslable strings: Wikipedia, The 
> Rolling Stones, lorem ipsum, Albert Einstein. 
The most relevant ones.
> The result page must be written in the user language, or to be multilingual. 
Agree
> This can be done by a subdomain division (de|en|es|fr).search.wikia.com, with the user 
> language preferences (but this doesn't exist by now) 
Why would you do that? Just provide a "Search in language X"

> or detecting the 
> country of anonymous users by their IP adresses.
>   
Nooo! I could be on country A but speak language B (and what would you 
do at countries with multiple
languages?). Plus geocoding dbs are not that good. Go for the 
accept-language header before doing so.



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