Author: sadik.khalid
Description:
Hi,
This bug is related to Search, Interwiki Link and General Enhancement.
We can get 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple' page by typing 'Apple' in search box of English Wikipedia.
If a Non-English user set his/her keyboard to other language like French, Arabic, Malayalam, etc. and search something like Pomme, تفاح, ആപ്പിൾ, etc. they will get 'There were no results matching the query.' and red link to the text.
Basically this user is trying to get 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple'. I think we should have an *Automatic Redirect* from Interwiki text to the main article.
This will solve another issue too.
Here is the URL for Malayalam Wikipedia Article Apple:
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%86%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%BF%E0%B5%BE
It is very difficult to use this URL in Email, Blog, Chat, IRC, etc. Many of us will be happy if we can use 'http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple' instead of the long URL.
At percent we are solving this issue by making a Redirect from its English name and manually adding http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Prettyurl template in thousands of Articles.
Thanks
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement