Wikipedia needs a multilingual search portal/feature.

Why?

  • Because most Wikipedia readers read more than 1 language Wikipedia (72% !) and
  • because Wikipedia readers want better Wikipedia search to find Wikipedia articles on the topics and
  • because Wikipedia readers shouldn't be forced to "google Wikipedia" (and thereby reveal their Wikipedia requests/search history) and
  • because Wikipedia readers can't "google Wikipedia" from Wikipedia apps/ Wikipedia Zero.

What do we need?

  • simultaneous multilingual Wikipedia search, especially bilingual (first language WP + language WP with broader coverage: zh/en, ar/fr, kz/ru, ...)
  • reader-optimized search portal, no clutter, to be linked at from language Wikipedia search/redlink pages
  • www.wikipedia.org Portal and www.m.wikipedia.org for mobile
  • www.wikipedia.org|ru|en permalinks for bilingual search, customizable (also for browser search plugin)
  • search results with snippets, with image ("Seitenbild", mw:Extension:PageImages), with short text description (mw:Extension:TextExtracts)
  • en:incremental search
  • future enhancement: Wiktionary search integration
  • future enhancement: image search [1]
  • future enhancement: search result location on OpenStreetMap
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Readers of Wikipedia are multilingual

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Wikipedia full text search page

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Full text search page
 
Recherche multicatégorie Wikipedia
  • "incategory:" search
  • "deepcat:" search
  • "intitle:" search


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Portals www.wikipedia.org and www.wikipedia.de

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  Prominent place for readers, traffic to portal
  Autosuggest search word (by article names)
  search in all Wikipedia languages
  no simultaneous multilingual Wikipedia search
  cluttered search page
  no search results page, directs to Wikipedia Special:Search
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  clean search interface, no clutter
  autosuggest for search
  Search results page with pictures
  Search results with WP article lede sentences
  no simultaneous multilingual Wikipedia search


Search tools by Wikipedians

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Bong by Magnus Manske

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Search-bong-tools-wmflabs-magnus lagunita


  Clean search interface
  Search results page with pictures
  Shows WP article lede sentences
  Supports several wikimedia projects (commons, wiktionary,...)
  No search snippets
  No simultaneous multilingual search, only english
  No autosuggest for search
  No incremental search

GlobalWPsearch by Aka

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Globalwpsearch for lagunita


  Benutzer_Diskussion:Aka/GlobalWPSearch since 2005!
  simultaneous multilingual search! (~50 Wikipedias)
  prominently linked in several Wikipedia language versions:
IT it:MediaWiki:Noarticletext: "Cerca nell'enciclopedia se esiste un titolo simile. tutte"
FR fr:Nick_Helm: "Recherchez cet article dans d’autres langues, grâce à l’outil Global Wikipedia Article Search (en anglais)."
HI [4]
  No search snippets, no article ledes
  No images
  No autosuggest for search
  No incremental search

Wikimedia-Search by Kolossos

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Wikimedia-Search by Kolossos
  • https://toolserver.org/~kolossos/tree/search.php?pro=wikipedia&langauswahl=en dead with toolserver
  • Wikipedia:Kurier/Archiv_2005/2: "Auf dem Toolserver befindet sich die von Kolossos entwickelte Suchmaschine Wikimedia-Search für alle Projekte und Sprachen der Wikimedia. Dieses Werkzeug verfügt über eine so genannte "Suggest"-Funktion, errät also welchen Artikel man sucht, dabei werden lange Artikel bevorzugt. Es sollen damit auch die Server in den USA entlastet werden, da Fehleingaben vermieden werden. Mit einem Mausklick lässt sich das Programm in die Sidebar des Browsers integrieren, und ist somit schnell aufrufbar.(Kolossos 22.12.)"


  Autosuggest article names for search
  Search in several WP languages
  No simultaneous multilingual search
  Offline, dead.

Wdsearch by Magnus Manske

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  simultaneous multilingual Wikipedia search !
  search in several Wikimedia projects
  No WP search snippets
  No images in search results
  cluttered search interface

hack for a Knowledge Engine by Magnus Manske

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Wikipedia search at external sites

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instapedia

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Screenshot of instapedia.com wikipedia search for "weltanschauung"-Text excerpts from Wikipedia articles


  simultaneous multilingual Wikipedia search!
  Autocomplete search
  Incremental search
  Clean interface
  Shows result with article lede
  For mobile and non-mobile
  No images in search results
  Not integrated to WP, dump search?
  Offline, dead.

WikiWand

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Wikiwand on mobile
  • en:WikiWand
  • www.wikiwand.com/
    • www.wikiwand.com/en/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_Liberia
  • Wikiwand app for iOS
    • "Multi-language search (up to 3 languages simultaneously)"
    • "Amazingly accurate search results with pictures"


  Autocomplete search
  Incremental search
  For mobile and non-mobile
  Clean interface
  Search results with images
  Simultaneous multilingual Wikipedia search (up to 3 languages)
  External site, Wikipedia mirrors


  Fast en:Incremental search: search as you type
  For mobile and non-mobile
  Clean interface
  Shows article lede as search results
  Search results with images
  search in several Wikipedia languages (english, korean, german)
  No simultaneous multilingual Wikipedia search
  External site, Wikipedia mirrors

wiksearch.com

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  • http://wiksearch.com
    • "Type a topic above to see links to Wikipedia articles that match — English only, for now. As you type, the green bar below the input box will fill with matching Wikipedia links sorted by how popular they are."
    • "This service uses the Datamuse API on a vocabulary of approximately 10 million Wikipedia titles and redirects." [5]
    • "The titles come from the publicly available Wikiedpedia page view counts for the last 7 days."
    • "Privacy: This website saves no data other than a count of the number of queries made to it. The API calls and the Wikipedia links use HTTPS. The API server does not log or remember your queries."
  • by Doug Beeferman - 16.06.2015 (http://www.dougb.com) [6][7]
 


  search in several Wikipedia languages
  search in several Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia / Wikisource / Wiktionary / Wikiquote / Wikibooks / Wikispecies / Wikiversity / Wikinews / Commons)
  No simultaneous multilingual Wikipedia search
  External site, Wikipedia mirrors
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  • WikiWeb App (wikilinks)
  • WikiWeb "developed by Baltimore-based design startup Friends of the Web, is an alternative iPad or iPhone reader that provides a visual and interactive way to explore all knowledge as described at Wikipedia." [8]
  • wikilinks3 @itunes: "Fast Wikipedia article search in all the languages of your choice at once."
  • video, example search for "Federer"


  Autosuggest search
  Clean interface
  Wiktionary search
  Simultaneous multilingual Wikipedia search
  External site, Wikipedia mirrors
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Slightly over half of our readers (51%) said they specifically look for Wikipedia in search engine results like google (WMF Blog post)
 
Search api analysis, Okeyes (WMF), 2015
  • External Search API usage Oliver Keyes, 2015-05-20 ("Conclusions: (...) Drop in replacements for WP's interface potentially a big market now.")
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Search and Discovery (WMF)

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Initial report: Wikipedia Portal Usage. By Oliver Keyes, April 2015
 
First Portal Test: Portal Search Box Improvements Test. Oliver Keyes et al., January 20, 2016

See also

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"This corpus contains the full text of the English version of Wikipedia, and it contains 1.9 billion words in more than 4.4 million articles. But this corpus allows you to search Wikipedia in a much more powerful way than is possible with the standard interface. You can search by word, phrase, part of speech, and synonyms. You can also find collocates (nearby words), and see re-sortable concordance lines for any word or phrase."
Corpex ermöglicht das schnelle Durchsuchen aller Wörter der Wikipedia. Es zeigt die Umgebung von Buchstabenketten und Wörtern innerhalb des Textes einer Wikipedia Sprachversion. info, Tool: Corpex – Wikipedia Corpora Explorer by RENDER, video Screencast: Corpex
"Dieses Werkzeug zeigt alle Artikeltitel, die einem regulären Ausdrucksmuster (Erklärung) entsprechen. Das Suchen mit einem regulären Ausdruck ist ressourcenintensiv. Falls überhaupt möglich, vergiss nicht die Präfix- und Suffix-Indikatoren (^ bzw. $)."
"This tool searches through a user's contribution history and returns the edits made by that user if the edit summary contains the specified string."