David or Liangent might be able to answer your questions. --scott On May 17, 2017 12:01 PM, "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> 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 > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
