On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Nikola Smolenski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 09 December 2008 08:23:07 Gerard Meijssen wrote: >> When people from other projects tell me that this is one of the reasons why >> they do not bother with Commons, I have to disbelieve them? Try to find >> "paard" and you will not be served in the same way as with "horse" the >> search result is inferior. Dutch is not the worst option, try "ίππος" and >> you find nothing. This is Greek and it also means horse. >> >> It is indeed ridiculous that for people who do not read / write English, >> Commons not a resource that is functional as a resource where you find >> freely lincensed pictures. It is however a fact. Do some studies and ask >> people to find images, people who do not read English. Try it in Arabic, >> Russian, German, Mandarin, French or Dutch. When that does not convince you >> try Neapolitan, Nepali, Bangla, Hindi or Xhosa. Have them search for things >> that are of interest to a seven year old. Things like a horse... >> >> I have had the financing to create a demonstration project that >> demonstrates that this is a problem that can be solved. Our resources were >> limited so the result is not as polished as I would hope for, but it does >> include the category tree translated. > > Me too - perhaps not as perfect solution, but hopefully adequate: > http://toolserver.org/~nikola/mis.php > > Examples: > > http://toolserver.org/~nikola/mis.php?uselang=nl&search=paard > http://toolserver.org/~nikola/mis.php?uselang=el&search=%CE%AF%CF%80%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%82
Something like this looks pretty good for starters. Why don't we just flip a switch? Thanks, Pharos > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
