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Simple English Wikipedia

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Daylen (talkcontribs)

Why isn't the Simple English Wikipedia shown in the cross-wiki search results for articles which have identical titles in the English Wikipedia? The Simple English Wikipedia is not known by many Wikipedia users, and I believe that it would be beneficial to include results from it with other cross-wiki results on the English Wikipedia.

DTankersley (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Hi @Daylen, thanks for the question.

The Simple English Wikipedia has it's own sister projects displaying in the search results page, but only Simple Wiktionary and Simple Commons (multimedia), as shown in this query for Paris (Simple Wikiquote is locked).

As you mentioned, Simple English Wikipedia is not well known by most Wikipedia users; however, including results from SimpleEnWIki in the sister projects on English Wikipedia would probably cause a lot of confusion for the general population, because they don't know the project exists.

It'd be great if there was a better way to encourage discovery, reading and editing in Simple English Wikipedia; please let us know if you have any ideas. :)

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