https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44038
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Bug ID: 44038
Summary: Search local titles with another language
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Lucene Search
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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The search box suggests titles as you type. If there were a language selector
next to it, you could search through the list of articles in that language.
Aha, but you say, what's the point of that? If I wanted to read about "Green
Eggs and Ham" in Italian ("Prosciutto e uova verdi"), I would go to the Italian
Wikipedia and read it there. Well, that's not what I'm proposing; what I mean
is, if you selected Italian and searched for "Prosciutto e uova verdi", you
would get taken to the English article, "Green Eggs and Ham".
When you type in the search box, it sends an Ajax request off to what I imagine
must be an API somewhere for the Wikipedia database which responds with a list
of matching article titles. I don't know what the syntax is for that request,
so here's some pseudocode for the purposes of illustration:
API?action=titlesearch;query=
Suppose we select Italian and start searching for "prosciutto e". The API call
is:
API?action=titlesearch;lang=it;query=prosciutto e
We get one result back, "Prosciutto e uova verdi". As we're operating with
Italian selected, clicking it sends the API request:
API?action=showarticle;titlelang=it;title=Prosciutto e uova verdi
That returns "Green Eggs and Ham" and sends the user there.
Of course, this requires a complete table of interlanguage mappings. If I
understand it right, that's something that will eventually be provided by
Wikidata.
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