Tecoholic (aka ArunMozhi http://www.arunmozhi.in/) has ported the extension to firefox!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yenwikipedia/ :) On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yuvi, > Personally yes. I would like to have links to Hindi, Marathi and Tamil > simultaneously. > I am crazy. :) > Regards, > Srikanth R. > P.S: Srikanth L and I are the original Srikanth's >.. : P > > On 14 April 2011 19:41, Yuvi Panda <yuvipa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Srikanth (too many Srikanths!). Right now, you can use only one >> language at a time. Would links to multiple language wikis be useful? >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < >> rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Yuvi, >>> Is this for one laguage at a time only, or any language, any time? >>> --Regards, >>> Srikanth R. >>> >>> On 14 April 2011 11:18, Vickram Crishna <vvcris...@radiophony.com>wrote: >>> >>>> I'm forwarding this to an acquaintance in Google, with a request to >>>> include multilingual results as a link in regular searches. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan < >>>> srik....@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Great!! What more, this comes on Tamil New year !! >>>>> >>>>> Agree with Sundar that Google must push this from server side. Instead >>>>> of spending huge money on translations etc, these efforts actually help >>>>> Indic / regional language Wikipedia's >>>>> >>>>> Regards >>>>> Srikanth.L >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:58, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbe...@yahoo.com >>>>> > wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Great, Yuvi. Let's all use this feature ourselves and hopefully Google >>>>>> will take not of it and promote the other language wiki pages in their >>>>>> search results themselves. >>>>>> >>>>>> - Sundar >>>>>> >>>>>> "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a >>>>>> medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." >>>>>> - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture >>>>>> >>>>>> --- On *Thu, 4/14/11, Yuvi Panda <yuvipa...@gmail.com>* wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> From: Yuvi Panda <yuvipa...@gmail.com> >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google >>>>>> (With a Chrome Extension) >>>>>> To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." < >>>>>> wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >>>>>> Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:31 AM >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Update: I've now added ability to change language. Just go to >>>>>> 'Options' (from the extensions page) and enter your language code (hi >>>>>> for hindi, etc). Needs a big UX liftup though. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Yuvi Panda >>>>>> <yuvipa...@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=yuvipa...@gmail.com>> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> > I've been working for a few hours on a Chrome extension to add links >>>>>> > to Indic Language Wiki pages when searching in Google. It hooks into >>>>>> > Google's search results, and if it finds an enwiki article (to which >>>>>> a >>>>>> > tawiki interwiki link also exists), it'll display it side by side. >>>>>> > Screenshot here: http://min.us/mbmIeeUOb8y00p#1 >>>>>> > >>>>>> > You can test the extension by installing it from here: >>>>>> > >>>>>> https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gpoogepkjnjfmpijnpaocncdjbedaeeo/ >>>>>> > >>>>>> > It is open source, and the code is available here: >>>>>> > https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/. You can file issues >>>>>> here >>>>>> > https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/issues/. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Known issues: >>>>>> > 1. Doesn't work when Google Instant is turned on (turn it off) >>>>>> > 2. Doesn't work for some country specific subdomains (which don't >>>>>> have >>>>>> > /search url part. Current solution: use google.com :P) >>>>>> > 3. Currently hardcoded to display links to tawiki only (Will have to >>>>>> > build an options dialog to support other languages) >>>>>> > 4. Needs a better logo (Help in this department would be highly >>>>>> appreciated :) ) >>>>>> > >>>>>> > I think this is one step forward in fixing the search issue - >>>>>> > discovering content in Indic Language wikis is now easier. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Thanks to Srikanth Lakshmanan for alpha testing. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Feedback welcome :) >>>>>> > >>>>>> > P.S. I'm also working on a Firefox version of this addon. Stay tuned >>>>>> :) >>>>>> > >>>>>> > -- >>>>>> > Yuvi Panda T >>>>>> > http://yuvi.in/blog >>>>>> > >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Yuvi Panda T >>>>>> http://yuvi.in/blog >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>>>>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org<http://mc/compose?to=Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>>>>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>>>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Vickram >>>> Fool On The Hill <http://communicall.wordpress.com> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> ME. >>> Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement >>> My infrastructure invasion... plus other images >>> too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Yuvi Panda T >> http://yuvi.in/blog >> >> > > > -- > Regards, > ME. > Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement > My infrastructure invasion... plus other images > too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq > -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog
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