Cross-wiki Search Result Improvements/self-guided testing

Display of sister projects on search results page


Base sample url:


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 * In order to get a base URL and page in which to test with, go ahead and add in a tilde (~) before the search term  in the URL to force the display of the search results page. Currently, using just the term   in a typical search query string will redirect to the page called 'Rainbow' on English Wikipedia.


 * Now, we'll add in the portion of the query that will automatically display the sister projects on the search results page:




 * This addition will also remove the need to have the tilde in front of the search term:


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 * ...and viola! You now see a search results page that has results from the Wikimedia sister projects!

Change search term:
 * Now - to update the search term to see more sister projects snippets in the search results page - simply change the search term in the URL. For instance, we're currently using:
 * , so, let's change that to




 * ...which would make the new URL to be:



Change to a different Wikipedia:


 * In order to try this out on other language wikis, simply change the language identifier in the URL. Currently, our sample URL is being used to search on English Wikipedia, and we now want to search on German Wikipedia for the city of Munchen. Change the two letters of  to   and update the   query parameter to get a full URL of: