Last modified: 2014-11-18 19:12:13 UTC
From mobile-l: It would be great if two preferred languages could be defined (e.g. German and English) together with a swap button for fast switch.
Fast switching between languages of the currently displayed article or the setting that affects what language edition Wikipedia is searched? (if latter then I am all for it :)
We definitely want something like this -- should be somewhere in our queue for the new app. Preferred languages would likely default to 'system UI language', 'user wiki UI language if logged in', and maybe other frequently used items (or english).
*** Bug 32908 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Note that this is a very popular request from users of the new app as well.
One additional feature request (not quite sure if this should be a new bug): it would also be very convenient to see the current language selected in the search interface. This morning i was searching for five minutes for an article in the English Wikipedia until i found out that the language was set to Dutch...
(In reply to Hay Kranen from comment #5) > One additional feature request (not quite sure if this should be a new bug): > it would also be very convenient to see the current language selected in the > search interface. This morning i was searching for five minutes for an > article in the English Wikipedia until i found out that the language was set > to Dutch... This is closely related. I now recall how I reported the original bug, which arrived as a feedback email. I don't know how will it be resolved. It requires design and may have some surprising technical implications on the search engines but the important part is that the app badly needs to be less oriented to a single language.
(In reply to Amir E. Aharoni from comment #6) > may have some > surprising technical implications on the search engines ElasticSearch already supports crosswiki searches: currently they're only used inter-project, inter-language is possible as well. And of course we already have an interface for Wikidata crosswiki search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Wdsearch.js
The default search in the apps is using prefixsearch ("Titles"). If the user then goes to full text search ("Within articles") we use ElasticSearch. So, for the first step in the search process (prefixsearch) I don't see an option for crosswiki search. Maybe once we don't need prefixsearch anymore. In the meantime, I think a fast switch like https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71136 is the best option.
