"David Monniaux" David.Monniaux@free.fr wrote on Friday, October 20, 2006 7:55 PM
peter green wrote:
Examples of tasks include: I'm looking for a photograph of an animal, where do I look? I only know the French common name of that species, what do I do?
i'd say the best bet for that right now would be to go to the french wikipedia and find the scientific name (and possiblly even a link to commons) from there.
Yes, this is exactly the method we explain on www.wikitheque.fr. It may sound obvious to us, but external users can't be expected to guess it. This is why we give those task-oriented recipes...
Maybe you could use one of the tools hosted on the commons-server, that collects interwiki-links starting from one article at fr.wp to automatically find the right page/category on commons ....
Another idea would be a small tool that just fetches the english interwiki-link and searches commons for matches.
Regards,
Flo