> On 24 Feb 2021, at 06:55, Federico Leva (Nemo) via Commons-l > <commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l, 23/02/21 22:36: >> Special:Search also functions at its best in English, and is not >> necessarily friendly to other languages. > > This is not true. I think you meant to say that the text in Commons is mostly > English, while the new structured search is expected to be able to leverage > more multilingual content.
It’s also worth noting that the Wikidata Infobox includes some search engine optimisation for other languages - i.e., it embeds Wikidata labels from different languages in the category contents, so Special:Search can pick up on them and return the relevant category links. That doesn’t help with media files, though, where the new search looks like a great step forward for multilingual support. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
