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Óli Gneisti (English)
Óli Gneisti (English)
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizza  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Searched for the film Big on Duck Duck Go. I pressed "continued on Wikipedia" and ended up on a non-existing page for "Big (film)" on Icelandic Wikipedia.

I went back and noticed that Iceland was checked as my location. I unchecked and tried it again and got the expected English language article.

There are levels of problems here but the most obvious might be the assumption that Icelandic Wikipedia has a page about any topic and that the Icelandic article would have the exact same title as the English one. It is, after all, a different language.

#DuckDuckGo

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Carl (He/Him)
Carl (He/Him)
@nitpicking@mstdn.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@oligneisti You can edit Wikipedia. One suspects someone made a false alias link. You could delete it (or create an Icelandic page for Big).

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