[Search wiki] A new list for the wiki

emijrp emijrp at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 18:13:14 UTC 2008


In the previous post, where I wrote "I'm not about that" I mean "I'm not 
sure about that", and "untranslable" is "untraslatable". Sorry.

You say that Search Wikia must to show "the most relevant ones", but I 
add "and the most nearest ones to the user language". It has to be a 
"combined algorithm". I'm Spanish, and I use www.google.es. When I 
search "Wikipedia", the first result is es.wikipedia.org, you can check 
it here http://www.google.es/search?hl=es&q=wikipedia .

You accept that the result page must be written in the user language, or 
to be multilingual. Multilingual is a problem because a lot of people 
can be interested only in ones which are written in their languages. And 
a results page written in the user language needs a software feature to 
detect the user language. How can you develop it? You say "Just provide 
a "search in X language"", but how? with a link to each language in the 
mainpage? by user preferences? by subdomains? or by a trick on the 
search string?

About the countries with multiple languages (I live in Spain, and we 
have four co-official languages and the spanish), so I knew about that 
problem.

I don't know if Search Wikia developers have got a solution to this 
problem, perhaps we are speaking pointlessly.

regards,
emijrp


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