Wikipedia needs a multilingual search portal/feature.
Why?
- Because most Wikipedia readers read more than 1 language Wikipedia (72% !) and
- because Wikipedia readers want better Wikipedia search to find Wikipedia articles on the topics and
- because Wikipedia readers shouldn't be forced to "google Wikipedia" (and thereby reveal their Wikipedia requests/search history) and
- because Wikipedia readers can't "google Wikipedia" from Wikipedia apps/ Wikipedia Zero.
What do we need?
- simultaneous multilingual Wikipedia search, especially bilingual (first language WP + language WP with broader coverage: zh/en, ar/fr, kz/ru, ...)
- reader-optimized search portal, no clutter, to be linked at from language Wikipedia search/redlink pages
- www.wikipedia.org Portal and www.m.wikipedia.org for mobile
- www.wikipedia.org|ru|en permalinks for bilingual search, customizable (also for browser search plugin)
- search results with snippets, with image ("Seitenbild", mw:Extension:PageImages), with short text description (mw:Extension:TextExtracts)
- en:incremental search
- future enhancement: Wiktionary search integration
- future enhancement: image search [1]
- future enhancement: search result location on OpenStreetMap