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Sister project search results should show localized project name
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Search results from the sister projects now have captions like "en.wiktionary.org results", which is not very helpful for non-English projects: few people know about the smaller projects, and the user might not be able to figure out from the English domain name, what that project is about. If possible, the localized project names should be used instead.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=a&fulltext=Search

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Reference
bz19072

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:41 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz19072.

Robert, is a friendlier site name something we can easily get at here?

rainman wrote:

Yes, in fact, this is why a message 'search-interwiki-custom' exists, although no-one seems to figured it out. Its format is: <iwprefix>:<caption> per line, so for english wikipedia it should be put to something like:

wikt:Wiktionary word definitions
s:Wikisource results
n:Wikinews results
q:Wikiquote results
v:Wikiversity results
b:Wikibooks results

and these will appear instead of the default sitenames.

Shouldn't those be added to WikimediaMessages extension... to have some defaults and raise awareness?

rainman wrote:

Yeah, that seems like a good idea.