Pharos wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Nikola Smolenski <smole...@eunet.yu> 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
+1 We should help using this tool from the search interface. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
