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Show English search result if none in other language
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Author: philinje

Description:
Required by Vodafone India. The idea is simple: when searching in a language other than English and there are no results in that language, automatically provide the search results in the English Wikipedia.

This is urgent because it is a condition of doing any work with Vodafone in India. And it is just plain a good idea.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Reference
bz32541

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 22 2014, 12:03 AM
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Not sure if this is relevant any more so closing. If there is a pressing need for this in future should be trivial to do at a later date.

[Removing RESOLVED LATER as discussed in
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064240.html .
Reopening and setting priority to "Lowest".
For future reference, please use either RESOLVED WONTFIX (for issues that will
not be fixed), or simply set lowest priority. Thanks a lot!]