Issue
Search results don't provide enough visual clues to make it easy to find content.
Background
While normal search results from commons are unstructured and may result in a lot of false positives. Wiktionary's narrow focus makes it quite useful to use as a "visual" dictionary, and it often avoids controversial or images.
Proposed solution
When wiktionary returns search results show, the page image used in the page as a thumbnail show the image:
- A small icon near the wiktionary results (the pageimage)
- A multimedia result at the top of the side box
This seems to be quite good results compared to commons, e.g.:
| Term | Commons | Wiktionary( see image) |
|---|---|---|
| hair | hair | https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=hair&action=info |
| ram | ram | https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ram&action=info |
| unicorn | https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=unicorn&action=info | |
| shag | https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=shag&action=info | |
| Honey (mel, honig) |
As demonstrated by the last row, it also returns useful images for the same term in various languages. Until a better system comes around this seems to be a reasonable alternative.