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Disabling an annoying Wikipedia "feature"

Pipe DreamerPipe Dreamer Registered User regular
edited September 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
So about a month ago or thereabouts, Wikipedia started doing this thing where they detect either your browser's language settings or where your connection is coming from (I'm not sure which). The language setting on the front page search box is then automatically adjusted to whatever language it thinks you're using. For me, unfortunately, that is Chinese. Since I generally never need to look up anything in Chinese on Wikipedia, this has been unbelievably annoying for me. Is there a way to make the search box default to English?

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  • wasted pixelswasted pixels Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Why not start at en.wikipedia.org instead of the main site? Or is THAT forwarding you, in which case, yeah, I see why you're annoyed.

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  • Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt Stepped in it Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    No, if you start at en.wikipedia.org, you stay in the English wiki. Or at least, that's how it works in Japan.

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  • Pipe DreamerPipe Dreamer Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    No, I was referring to wikipedia.org.

    I guess I would have to start using en.wikipedia, then... I've just been going to the big main page for so long it's been a force of habit.

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  • yotesyotes Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    You may not know this, but if you're using Firefox or Opera, you can just create a Wikipedia quicksearch by right-clicking the search box on en.wikipedia.org. Not sure if this works on IE7.

    Firefox: "Add keyword to this search"
    Opera: "Create search"

    From now on, you can just search from the address bar by just typing '[yourkeyword] [search terms]'.

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  • JustinSane07JustinSane07 Really, stupid? Brockton__BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Is that what they did a month ago? It's really fucking with my work's proxy settings even when I go to en.wikipedia.org. The whole browser locks up for like 5 minutes and then finally loads the page.

    Granted, we're using IE6 at work and they won't let me put FF on the machine. Hell, they warned me I could have been fired when Automatic Updates installed IE7 on me.

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  • starlanceriistarlancerii Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    JustinSane07 wrote: »
    Hell, they warned me I could have been fired when Automatic Updates installed IE7 on me.

    Perhaps a new job is in order? That does not sound like the best place to work

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