Ayelie ayelie.at.large@gmail.com wrote on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:40:05 -0400:
I think a better way to do it is probably to increase awareness about translation efforts, ask for volunteers to translate images as they come across them, or even let other-language wikis know that their contributors are more than welcome to come to Commons and translate the description of a file they are using. If every person who comes from it. or fr. or de. or ru. or zh. (etc. etc.) wiki to find a picture for a new article on their wikipedia translated the descriptions of the 5 - 10 files they come across in their search, that would be a huge help. If there are 200 people from other-language wikis coming to Commons every day to look for images, each look at at 3 images and translate the descriptions, that's 600 new translations per day.
What about a javascript thingie that matches the language templates of the currently viewed image and the language code of the browser and asks for translation? Magnus?
regards,
Flo