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Translatable pages flood the search results
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Search for a word which appears on a translatable page which has lots of translations

What happens?:

The search results are filled with translations of the same page, which makes it hard to find what you are looking for.

Examples:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=merge&ns12=1 has a link to Help:Merge and 19 translations of it. The second page of results has another 20 translations of it. The third page of results has another 18 translations and only two other pages.

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=redirect&ns12=1 has a link to Help:Redirects, 18 translations of it and only one other page.

What should have happened instead?:

Translatable pages should be collapsed into a single result (the link could use Special:MyLanguage/) and/or translations in languages which are not the interface language (or one of its fallback languages) should be ranked much lower.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

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 OpenBUG REPORTNoneT372214 Translatable pages flood the search results

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Nikki created this task.Aug 11 2024, 6:59 AM
Restricted Application added a project: Discovery-Search. · View Herald TranscriptAug 11 2024, 6:59 AM
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Bugreporter added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-Translate.Aug 11 2024, 8:57 AM
Bugreporter added a parent task: T304939: Translation pages cluttering various page listings.
dr0ptp4kt subscribed.Aug 12 2024, 3:44 PM

Thanks @Nikki . Would the "Pages in this language" dropdown satisfy as a workaround?

The level of effort on this looks potentially a bit bigger, and it wouldn't be an area for active work soon, but I did want to understand if the existing functionality helps get the job done.

abi_ triaged this task as Medium priority.Aug 20 2024, 7:41 AM
abi_ moved this task from Backlog to cross projects on the MediaWiki-extensions-Translate board.
Gehel moved this task from needs triage to Feature Requests on the Discovery-Search board.Aug 28 2024, 8:47 AM
Gehel subscribed.

@Nikki : I'm moving this to our longer term backlog. It seems that we have a workaround. If you need more from the Search Platform team at this point, please ping me directly.

Tacsipacsi subscribed.Aug 28 2024, 9:52 AM
In T372214#10058301, @dr0ptp4kt wrote:

Thanks @Nikki . Would the "Pages in this language" dropdown satisfy as a workaround?

It’s not the same, see T304977#7830235. (Is this task a duplicate of that one? They’re about the same problem, but they propose quite different solutions.)

Bugreporter subscribed.Sep 3 2024, 8:20 AM

The solutions proposed in this task is:

  • Deprioritize translation pages from search results
  • Redesign search results so that all translations of single page are "folded" into one item (require redesign of API and UI, which is a huge breaking change)
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