[Search wiki] A new list for the wiki

[Balinny]

emijrp wrote:
> 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 .
>   
Yes, Google has a bias for results in your own language, which i don't 
always like.  But the fact
of using a different domain is irrelevant. They all point to the same 
ips (using akamai) and have
the same contents.

> 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. 
On that same page you have an option "páginas en español". That's what i 
meant. An option to choose on
the search page which languages to use. Google system is not so good, as 
you can only restrict it to your own
language, if you'reyou can restrict to "Seiten auf Deutsch" still using 
www.google.es, but need to manually add
to the url &meta=lr%3Dlang_de.
Wikia Search should go for a combo box, where the default (selected) 
option is what the server thinks is the user
language. If the user wants another language, just chooses from there. A 
support for multiple languages: "en|de|es"
would also be fine, maybe choosing them from a different "advanced" page.
Note: don't prefill the combo with all existing languages! Just only 
those which the crawler is able to detect.


> I don't know if Search Wikia developers have got a solution to this 
> problem, perhaps we are speaking pointlessly.
>   
Search wikia has just started. This is not a concern for the near future :-)