Thread:Project:Support desk/Proposition for a link to the search term in other languages when nothing is found

First of all, my main language ist german, so I make most use of german WP, so please don't be confused.

Short problem description: when looking for a search term, it might have no article in the WP of the own main language - but there might be articles in other languages for that search term.

The behaviour of the german WP is different than the english WP: when on german WP you enter a search term that nothing is found - not only no article, but also nothing in other articles, there is a proposition for searching in other languages. In english, that proposition does not appear. But - this proposition only comes when nothing is found. If the ther mis found in other articles, the proposition does not appear.

I would like that it ALWAYS appears when there is no existing article - also when the search term is found in other articles. Even better would be, if there would directly appear a list with all languages in which there is an article for that search term.

Examples: let the search-term be "thisismydummysearchterm"; there is not only no article in any language, that search term is not mentioned in any article. So, in the english WP, you get: "There were no results matching the query.". In the german WP, you get additionally a clickable link "would you like to search in other languages for ..." that leads to http://www.wikipedia.org/?search=thisismydummysearchterm

My proposition now is to implement that such a proposition for a search in other languages always appears when there is no article for that search term, not only when there is absolutely no search result for that term. And of course I propose that functionality also for other languages, not only german.

Here is a discussion about it (in german). --ProloSozz 16:55, 28 January 2011 (UTC)