That's a wonderful idea! But many times our main problem is the lack of manpower in different languages to actually address different users. Don't let [[Special:ListUsers/sysop]] fool you: only a handful of those 244 sysops is actually very active. The problem runs deeper than multilingualism; it's the cultural differences between communities that really messes things up. This said, I still think such a categorization would be very useful :).
Patrícia
--- On Sat, 6/12/08, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote: From: Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Saturday, 6 December, 2008, 6:06 PM
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Maybe we should turn the system around, so our Swedish newcomers can upload images to the Swedish Wikipedia, where they are patrolled by Swedish speaking admins. Then, the patrolled images can be automatically forwarded to Commons, instead of the other way around. Even though this would require software development, this seems a lot easier than trying to manage the admin community on Commons.
That's an interesting proposal.
How about this: Keep uploads at Commons, but automatically tag the image description with a (hidden) category of the interface language used on the upload page (except maybe for en)? That would allow for * determining the language to use when contacting a user * subgroup/filter images (e.g. all deletion requests uploaded in Swedish)
Should be easy enough to incorporate into the software. Initially, we could fall back to JavaScript (wgUserLanguage), which we use in the upload form anyway...
Magnus
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