User talk:TJones (WMF)/Notes/Cross Language Wiki Searching

Hi Trey Jones, I absolutely agree with your summary, "Perhaps a better approach to handling non-English queries is user-specified alternate languages." That is why i have made a collection about multilingual search "past, present and future" at de:Benutzer:Atlasowa/multilingual_search. Lots of pictures and stats and relevant links. Have a look. --Atlasowa (talk) 15:17, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Why People Use Search Engines Instead of Wikimedia Search, good stuff, TJones (WMF)! What do you think about this:

Q2a. Number of Wikipedia languages read (n=4,930) meta:Editor Survey 2011/Location & Language: "...an overwhelming majority (72%) read Wikipedia in more than one language."

• Who reads which Wikipedia? The WMF's surprising stats Signpost/2013-04-01

and this:

• 2012, Google Inc. United States Patent 8,224,836 - "Searching in multiple languages".

and

• search results in multilingual format in google, (June 11th, 2012)

--Atlasowa (talk) 21:39, 22 September 2015 (UTC)