Last modified: 2013-04-22 11:03:44 UTC
Wikipedia is currently organised into "linguistic silos" and does not allow true multilingual searches. In a way, it stays behind its real potential, in a world that is more and more connected, thus multilingual and multicultural. Two possible improvements for the search engine page, among others: (1) (Simple solution) give access to search engines in other languages in the left hand column, allowing users to switch easily to another Wikipedia without either using Google or going through the general homepage. (2) (Less simple solution) translate automatically words or expressions in one or several languages selected by the user in its search preferences, and provide multilingual search results. Thanks in advance for your attention.
Per bug 20375 there was apparently an interwiki search feature at some point, but I have no idea what happened to it.
Quoting bug 20375 comments: "It's one of the features I liked most in MediaWiki's history..." "Feel free to open a bug to restore it..." I hope it will be reconsidered! Thanks in advance.
Hi David. Thanks for taking the time to report this! This particular problem has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further issues you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1837 ***
Alright Andre. Thanks!
