2009/6/8 Dror Kamir dqamir@bezeqint.net:
The Hebrew interface of the Commons is not easy to handle, and English is a foreign language to most Israelis. The number of license tags is huge, most of them are irrelevant to the Israeli user. Communication with the Commons' administrators is often impossible due to the language barrier, and the need to place a description template, which is actually a code, is quite frightening to most technophobic people, and there are plenty of them.
Yes, the interface is horrible even in English.
(And the resulting File: page. Have you ever tried to explain over the phone to someone where the licensing information is on a web page? Fun!)
Has anything the WMF usability initiative has done seem helpful to you? That concentrated on English, but horrible interfaces cross language boundaries ...
- d.