Hello, We disabled this small feature on the wikipedia.org portal page because it essentially didn't work; due to a bug in the API that it uses. We documented it here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126409 and on the Portal Improvements page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal_Improvements#Minor_updates_to_the_Portal_page .
Cheers, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:41 PM, MF-Warburg <mfwarb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > What happened to the search box "Find Wikipedia in your language"? > > 2016-03-11 3:27 GMT+01:00 Deborah Tankersley <dtankers...@wikimedia.org>: > > > Hello! > > > > I'm very pleased to announce that we've updated the Wikipedia.org > > <http://wikipedia.org/> portal page with a brand new search box that is > > more prominent and will now display meta data with images (as available) > in > > the search results (see attached image). > > > > This was a large effort by the Discovery Portal team to develop a > > JavaScript-only version of the language picker, so that JavaScript > enabled > > browsers will see all the new meta data. Alongside that effort, we also > > ensured that in JavaScript (JS) disabled browsers (or older Internet > > Explorer versions), our visitors won't have a bad experience when > choosing > > a language to search in. (Note: in older IE versions and JS disabled > > browsers, the type-ahead and meta data search results information will > not > > be displayed.) > > > > We also implemented a shorter language code (ie: EN for English, ES for > > Spanish, etc) to allow for more characters to be typed into the search > box. > > When a user toggles the language selector, the full language name will be > > displayed in the dropdown for easy finding of the language you prefer to > > search in. For the more technical minded - I've attached a screenshot of > > one of the ways we test our code, visually. > > > > We're interested in hearing your feedback or if you have any questions! > > > > On behalf of the very happy Wikipedia.org Portal Team, > > > > Deb > > > > -- > > Deb Tankersley > > Product Manager, Discovery > > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
