There's some unexpected behavior in ranking results, it's being investigated to be patched as needed [1]. Media Search is designed for multilingual environments and this will be corrected.
1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282583 On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:30 AM Hay (Husky) <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried Gerard's example, and indeed i couldn't get it to work. If i: > > 1) Go to commons.wikimedia.org in an incognito Chrome window > 2) Switch to 'Dutch' using the Language select dropdown on the left > 3) Search for 'olifant' (Dutch for 'elephant') > > I only get results where the string 'olifant' is available somewhere > in the raw wikitext, not in a translated 'depicts' statement. > > -- Hay > > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 4:51 PM Keegan Peterzell > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 2:56 PM Gerard Meijssen < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hoi, > >> A previous iteration of Special:MediaSearch provided results in my > language. The results were based on the media that had a depict statement > on the subject that I was looking for.When I look for bever, I expect to > find beavers. I don't. > >> > >> Is it possible to have a version of Special:MediaSearch that actually > works for other languages but English? The previous iteration worked for me. > >> Thanks, > >> GerardM > >> > > > > This should still be the case, it's being investigated. > > > > -- > > Keegan Peterzell (he/him) > > Technical Collaboration Specialist > > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > > Commons-l mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -- Keegan Peterzell (he/him) Technical Collaboration Specialist Wikimedia Foundation
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