Re: [Wikitech-l] Chinese conversion, search engines, and auto-detection

Indexing is a known issue, tracked at: * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93213 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54429 (Tilman, Kaldari or others with Google Search Console access may quickly provide an update on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93213#2518417 .) Nemo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Chinese conversion, search engines, and auto-detection

> > * For users who didn't log in, is the variant selection remembered in a cookie or in localStorage? A quick test when I'm not logged in indicates that variant selection isn't remembered between searches, or even when following links! The default "/wiki/" version of the page can be mixed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Chinese conversion, search engines, and auto-detection

David or Liangent might be able to answer your questions. --scott On May 17, 2017 12:01 PM, "Amir E. Aharoni" wrote: > Hi, > > I wondered about some things around the Chinese variant conversion: > > * When a person uses a search engine, do the links in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Chinese conversion, search engines, and auto-detection

Yeah... but I would love to hear actual experiences of actual Chinese speakers. (Although I certainly do appreciate other relevant replies, like yours.) For every search engine, and often for every search engine _user_ the actual results are likely different. If it works well for Chinese

Re: [Wikitech-l] Chinese conversion, search engines, and auto-detection

Supposedly google listens: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en On Wednesday, May 17, 2017, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Quite possible, but does it actually happen? > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי >

[Wikitech-l] Chinese conversion, search engines, and auto-detection

Hi, I wondered about some things around the Chinese variant conversion: * When a person uses a search engine, do the links in the results point directly to one of the variants? That is, does it point to https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/Article_name , etc., or simply to