⚓ T46420 Restore interwiki (sister projects) results in search queries

⚓ T46420 Restore interwiki (sister projects) results in search queries
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Restore interwiki (sister projects) results in search queries
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Assigned To
demon
Authored By
Nemo_bis
Jan 28 2013, 10:08 AM
2013-01-28 10:08:00 (UTC+0)
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CirrusSearch
(Resolved/Invalid/Declined/Legacy)
Wikidata
(incoming)
Discovery-ARCHIVED
RelEng-Archive-FY201718-Q2
Discovery-Search (Current work)
(Incoming)
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demon
Glaisher
He7d3r
Krinkle
Magnus
Manybubbles
MZMcBride
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Description
For a short while, Special:Search showed results from other wikis in a very sensible way: for instance, looking for a word on Wikipedia gave you also a link to the entry on Wiktionary in the same language; searching for a name gave also the link to the person's quotations on Wikiquote; etc. If I remember correctly, they were displayed in a box on the right side of the screen.
This is a feature that, from what I recall, had a universally and greatly positive reaction and then suddenly disappeared. It's quite obviously useful because few readers (or even editors) know the differences between Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikinews... We've missed it for many years now and it should probably be among the highest priority feature requests for our search (after "keep search lights on" but before any design or user experience work).
I don't remember any detail, maybe someone can find links. Looks like it was around 2009.
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: master
See Also
T49775: Centralized Search Engine ("interwiki" searches)
T55531: Images in Commons don't show up in search when using CirrusSearch
T3837: Add the ability to simultaneously search all languages on the on-wiki search page
T62975: Expose interwiki search results in API
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bz44420
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[UI design] Search Results page: re-design page display of search results across languages
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Restore cross-wiki (interwiki) search across all public Wikimedia wikis
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Broken interwiki search results on Swedish Wikipedia
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Interwiki search use canonical namespace name
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Allow adding wiki logos to interwiki search results boxes
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Multilingual search on project portals (e.g. www.wikipedia.org)
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Nemo_bis
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Interwiki search results should come after local ones in HTML
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Enable interwiki search on Meta-Wiki
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None
T3837
Add the ability to simultaneously search all languages on the on-wiki search page
Invalid
Krenair
T91179
Enable interwiki search in Spanish projects
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demon
T46420
Restore interwiki (sister projects) results in search queries
Mentioned In
T55531: Images in Commons don't show up in search when using CirrusSearch
T109957: Restore cross-wiki (interwiki) search across all public Wikimedia wikis
T71489: Expose mwgrep functionality on-wiki
T97819: A user who is bi-lingual / trilingual can easily switch article language and favorite languages
T3837: Add the ability to simultaneously search all languages on the on-wiki search page
T26767: Multilingual search on project portals (e.g. www.wikipedia.org)
Mentioned Here
T3837: Add the ability to simultaneously search all languages on the on-wiki search page
T49775: Centralized Search Engine ("interwiki" searches)
T55531: Images in Commons don't show up in search when using CirrusSearch
T62975: Expose interwiki search results in API
Event Timeline
bzimport
raised the priority of this task from
to
High
Nov 22 2014, 1:16 AM
2014-11-22 01:16:56 (UTC+0)
bzimport
added a project:
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bzimport
set Reference to bz44420.
Nemo_bis
created this task.
Jan 28 2013, 10:08 AM
2013-01-28 10:08:00 (UTC+0)
Nemo_bis
added a comment.
Feb 22 2013, 5:39 AM
2013-02-22 05:39:31 (UTC+0)
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See also bug 16283 comment 10 for something this may help fixing (or not).
Nemo_bis
added a comment.
May 24 2013, 7:29 PM
2013-05-24 19:29:45 (UTC+0)
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btw
(Ram on bug 47775 comment #5)
The current search code (Java) already has a mode for "interwiki" searches
but
it is currently disabled
Krinkle
added a comment.
Jul 28 2013, 9:16 PM
2013-07-28 21:16:55 (UTC+0)
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This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21685 ***
Nemo_bis
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Aug 5 2013, 3:21 PM
2013-08-05 15:21:48 (UTC+0)
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Updating priority as, according to the RfC, this is indeed one of the key things in consideration for the new search system.
Aklapper
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Aug 6 2013, 12:14 PM
2013-08-06 12:14:32 (UTC+0)
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(In reply to comment #4)
Updating priority as, according to the RfC, this is indeed one of the key
things in consideration for the new search system.
Which RfC?
Nemo_bis
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Aug 6 2013, 12:36 PM
2013-08-06 12:36:22 (UTC+0)
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(In reply to comment #5)
Which RfC?
Of course it won't be the first release(s) but "I like the idea a lot" to me means that we/they want to keep an eye on this request, hence the priority to avoid losing it.
Manybubbles
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Sep 4 2013, 2:52 PM
2013-09-04 14:52:19 (UTC+0)
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Yeah - it is reasonably high priority to me. Especially with regards to Bug 53531 which is a limited form of interwiki search that we do still have on in the old search code.
Nemo_bis
added a comment.
Nov 6 2013, 6:26 PM
2013-11-06 18:26:22 (UTC+0)
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Magnus has written a script which adds Wikidata search results:
This mostly helps with inter-language searches (for title and? something more) in the same project, despite being technically inter-project.
Aklapper
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Nov 8 2013, 12:52 PM
2013-11-08 12:52:48 (UTC+0)
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Bug 25278 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
gerritbot
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Feb 6 2014, 5:53 PM
2014-02-06 17:53:15 (UTC+0)
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Change 105986 had a related patch set uploaded by Chad:
Implement interwiki searches
gerritbot
added a comment.
Feb 6 2014, 6:12 PM
2014-02-06 18:12:16 (UTC+0)
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Change 105986 merged by jenkins-bot:
Implement interwiki searches
demon
added a comment.
Feb 13 2014, 6:11 AM
2014-02-13 06:11:34 (UTC+0)
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Marking this fixed because it's basically implemented. We can always tidy things up later (and we will).
bzimport
added a project:
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Nov 22 2014, 1:17 AM
2014-11-22 01:17:00 (UTC+0)
bzimport
added a comment.
Feb 13 2014, 4:15 PM
2014-02-13 16:15:15 (UTC+0)
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wmf.amgine3691
wrote:
Talking to
Wikidata
, only Wikipedia, Commons, Wikisource, and Wikivoyage are interwikied in any way. For Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, and Incubator this is still broken.
Nemo_bis
added a comment.
Feb 13 2014, 4:25 PM
2014-02-13 16:25:13 (UTC+0)
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(In reply to Amgine from comment #13)
Talking to
Wikidata
, only Wikipedia, Commons, Wikisource, and Wikivoyage
are interwikied in any way. For Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote,
Wikiversity, Wikispecies, and Incubator this is still broken.
I don't understand this comment, as far as I know this is not related to Wikidata in any way.
bzimport
added a comment.
Feb 13 2014, 4:44 PM
2014-02-13 16:44:43 (UTC+0)
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wmf.amgine3691
wrote:
(In reply to Nemo from comment #14)
(In reply to Amgine from comment #13)
Talking to
Wikidata
, only Wikipedia, Commons, Wikisource, and Wikivoyage
are interwikied in any way. For Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote,
Wikiversity, Wikispecies, and Incubator this is still broken.
I don't understand this comment, as far as I know this is not related to
Wikidata in any way.
The patch searches the Wikidata Interwikis only.
demon
added a comment.
Feb 13 2014, 4:51 PM
2014-02-13 16:51:12 (UTC+0)
Comment Actions
(In reply to Amgine from comment #15)
(In reply to Nemo from comment #14)
(In reply to Amgine from comment #13)
Talking to
Wikidata
, only Wikipedia, Commons, Wikisource, and Wikivoyage
are interwikied in any way. For Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote,
Wikiversity, Wikispecies, and Incubator this is still broken.
I don't understand this comment, as far as I know this is not related to
Wikidata in any way.
The patch searches the Wikidata Interwikis only.
What do you mean by that? The search doesn't care about the interwiki prefix really, it's what's returned. I think core Special:Search and/or wikidata are mishandling the prefixes actually, not Cirrus.
Nemo_bis
added a parent task:
T87631: Interwiki search results should come after local ones in HTML
Jan 27 2015, 1:27 AM
2015-01-27 01:27:58 (UTC+0)
Nemo_bis
added a parent task:
T87632: Enable interwiki search on Meta-Wiki
Jan 27 2015, 1:34 AM
2015-01-27 01:34:30 (UTC+0)
Deskana
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CirrusSearch
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Apr 20 2015, 4:12 AM
2015-04-20 04:12:55 (UTC+0)
Nemo_bis
added a parent task:
T96881: Don't show the "results from other projects" box if empty
Apr 22 2015, 4:45 PM
2015-04-22 16:45:20 (UTC+0)
Nemo_bis
mentioned this in
T26767: Multilingual search on project portals (e.g. www.wikipedia.org)
Jul 2 2015, 4:32 PM
2015-07-02 16:32:06 (UTC+0)
Nemo_bis
mentioned this in
T3837: Add the ability to simultaneously search all languages on the on-wiki search page
Jul 25 2015, 3:31 AM
2015-07-25 03:31:32 (UTC+0)
Nemo_bis
added a parent task:
T3837: Add the ability to simultaneously search all languages on the on-wiki search page
matej_suchanek
updated the task description.
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Jul 25 2015, 1:42 PM
2015-07-25 13:42:49 (UTC+0)
matej_suchanek
set Security to None.
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Jul 25 2015, 1:42 PM
2015-07-25 13:42:49 (UTC+0)
Nemo_bis
mentioned this in
T97819: A user who is bi-lingual / trilingual can easily switch article language and favorite languages
Jul 26 2015, 9:54 AM
2015-07-26 09:54:36 (UTC+0)
MZMcBride
mentioned this in
T71489: Expose mwgrep functionality on-wiki
Aug 21 2015, 3:56 AM
2015-08-21 03:56:00 (UTC+0)
Nemo_bis
added a parent task:
T91179: Enable interwiki search in Spanish projects
Aug 22 2015, 9:01 PM
2015-08-22 21:01:29 (UTC+0)
Nemo_bis
added a parent task:
T109957: Restore cross-wiki (interwiki) search across all public Wikimedia wikis
Aug 22 2015, 9:30 PM
2015-08-22 21:30:57 (UTC+0)
Glaisher
subscribed.
Aug 23 2015, 12:16 PM
2015-08-23 12:16:51 (UTC+0)
Nemo_bis
mentioned this in
T109957: Restore cross-wiki (interwiki) search across all public Wikimedia wikis
Jun 10 2016, 6:36 AM
2016-06-10 06:36:26 (UTC+0)
Liuxinyu970226
mentioned this in
T55531: Images in Commons don't show up in search when using CirrusSearch
Dec 1 2017, 12:02 PM
2017-12-01 12:02:22 (UTC+0)
Phabricator_maintenance
added a project:
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Dec 21 2017, 6:57 PM
2017-12-21 18:57:26 (UTC+0)
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Dec 21 2017, 6:57 PM
2017-12-21 18:57:26 (UTC+0)
Gehel
edited projects, added
Discovery-Search (Current work)
; removed
Discovery-Search
Feb 11 2025, 3:38 PM
2025-02-11 15:38:03 (UTC+0)
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