brian wrote:

And here's the section that was immediately above that on
[[Meta:Wikimedia site feedback]]:

word count for wikipedia "other languages" links?

I can read a few languages fluently and make sense of quite some
more, so I find the "other languages" links quite useful. However,
if there is a range of other language articles available, all
different, of course, it becomes hard to judge which ones bear
looking at. How hard would it be to append a word count to the links?

:Hi. I suggest that you discuss such features on wikitech-
l@wikimedia.org. We hope that one day we could choose the languages
to see in our preferences. Thanks. [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] 18:38, 1
Mar 2005 (UTC)

gangleri wrote:

related topics?:
bug 1837: Search all languages
bug 1640: add title searching across all wikis

• Bug 1640 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Might be possible by restructuring the lucene index; currently we have a
separate index for each wiki, but in theory we could roll them all together and
key on some group / language fields to restrict to single wikis or allow
searching a bunch.

Not sure how feasible this is, but might experiment with it.

Wiki.Melancholie wrote:

Have a look on [[wikicities:Special:Search]] to see how this could work.

Wiki.Melancholie wrote:

Hmm, working link: http://wikicities.com/wiki/Special:Search

*** Bug 10044 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

petr.castek wrote:

I suggest to add combobox with English, German, All language, optionally Current Language to a Search result page, and optionally to a search box in the left menu bar such as.
<pre><!--
<div id="p-search" class="portlet">

		<h5><label for="searchInput">Search</label></h5>
		<div id="searchBody" class="pBody">
			<form action="/w/index.php" id="searchform"><div>
				<input type='hidden' name="title" value="Special:Search"/>
				<input id="searchInput" name="search" type="text" title="Search Wikipedia [f]" accesskey="f" value="" />
				<input type='submit' name="go" class="searchButton" id="searchGoButton"	value="Go" title="Go to a page with this exact name if one exists" />&nbsp;
				<input type='submit' name="fulltext" class="searchButton" id="mw-searchButton" value="Search" title="Search Wikipedia for this text" />
			</div></form>
		</div>

</div>
--></pre>

fences_and_windows wrote:

I don't seem to be able to vote, but as I signed up to Bugzilla especially... I vote for this!

armbrust wrote:

There was a discussion between October and December last year about multilingual search at the Village Pump/Proposal of the en.Wikipedia (now archived there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29/Archive_83#Multilingual_search_results_for_registered_Wikipedians.) There was a clear consensus to enable this feature for registered users on an opt-in basis.

• Bug 22420 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

• Bug 44038 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

• Bug 47484 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

WONTFIX for lsearchd. We already have bug 44420 tracking this in Cirrus.

(Thanks Chad for this bug triaging!)

(In reply to comment #14)

WONTFIX for lsearchd. We already have bug 44420 tracking this in Cirrus.

Uh? How are they related? That's about sister projects, this about languages: that feature was used in Special:Search, this could be e.g. in the project portals.

Is this a dup / does this task block T46038: Get interwiki links to a selected language for results of a local search ? Does this task potentially block T40510: add a "more languages" link to search results?

No, these are both unrelated AFAICT.

Change 241226 had a related patch set uploaded (by Smalyshev):
Enable A/B test for combined language search.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/241226

Change 241226 merged by jenkins-bot:
Enable A/B test for combined language search.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/241226

Rather than returning results in other languages, the search engine could return the local equivalent of the matched articles.

Following the example above, if I search "Kalignost" in the English Wikipedia, the search engine should be able to determine that there's a relevant result in the German Wikipedia, and return the English equivalent of the article (in this case Sodium tetraphenylborate) by following the interwiki link.

T118278: [EPIC] Improve Language Identification for use in Cirrus Search is an automated/user-friendly version of this feature, but I don't understand whether we provide any way for users to force a search to be run on all languages at once. It seems not.

Hi all,
I would like to know whether this project is still active.
I'm looking for sort of a wiki universal search box, where I get results from different wikipedias, based on the languages I've "turned on".
Is this possible?

Currently, it is really tedious for multi-language users to search for different languages in different wikis.

Best

@Alireza1357: Not sure what "active" means. This task was set to lowest priority by folks with engineering capacity in order to reflect reality.
@Nemo_bis might be able to explain recent progress as he raised the task priority to 'normal' in T3837#1909667...
For the records, related work (but not the same thing) is currently ongoing: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements

@Alireza1357 Discovery is not working on this and currently has no plans to.

It would be possible for someone to put together a little app in Labs that does something like this. Off the top of my head, a quick and easy way to do it would be to hardcode the URLs for all the Wikipedia APIs, issue a request to every API for the term the user put in, and show the results from each project. There shouldn't be much of a performance problem with CirrusSearch if you did this. Very hacky, but it'd be pretty easy and it'd work.