Quite possible, but does it actually happen?
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2017-05-17 23:25 GMT+03:00 Brian Wolff <[email protected]>: > I think the point of all those <link rel=alternate hreflang=foo> tags was > so google linked to right variant, but i am unsure. > > -- > brian > > On Wednesday, May 17, 2017, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > > zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_name ? I guess that among Chinese-speaking > > people Google is not necessarily as ubiquitous as elsewhere, so there is > > probably a separate answer for each search engine. > > > > * If for any search engine the answer above is "yes", does anybody have > an > > idea about how does that search engine guess the preferred variant? Usage > > of simplified / traditional characters in the search query? Geolocation? > > Preferred language settings in the browser ("Accept-Language")? > Preferences > > in the search engine itself? A combination of all of the above? Something > > else? > > > > * Does any of the search engine show direct links to country-based > variants > > - zh-cn, zh-hk, zh-tw, zh-sg, zh-mo? Or to the more generic zh-hans and > > zh-hant? > > > > * For users who didn't log in, is the variant selection remembered in a > > cookie or in localStorage? > > > > I cannot easily test any of these things myself, because I don't speak > > Chinese, I'm not familiar with Chinese search engines, and I don't live > in > > a Chinese-speaking country (and geolocation matters). But since I care > > about language, I'm very curious about this. > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > > “We're living in pieces, > > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
