Topic on Project:Village Pump

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Task T106887

When I search for topics on mediawiki.org, the results always include many matches on pages in other languages besides the one I have selected (English). It makes it difficult to find what I'm looking for because I have to filter out so many versions of the same page.

By default, shouldn't search results be restricted to the selected language, and then have an option to include all languages? I've looked for any way to restrict results to a single language but I found nothing.

This post was posted by AgentFriday~mediawikiwiki, but signed as AgentFriday.

It looks like you'll have to file a BUGREPORT against Extension:Translate -- it includes a profile for searching only translations. It looks like you could add a way to search for a particular language or even untranslated pages.

Actually it's more a report for core, because Translate sets page content language already. Two points:

1. where page content language is not set (vast majority of cases), there's nothing to do (apart from migrating the page to use the Translate extension);
2. where it's set, core/MW-Search should be able to use it to filter by language.

This just to say that it doesn't matter where you file the bug but there are limits to what can be done on the code side.