Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
[...] I got another, loosely idea: Could we use the language templates in the descriptions to build a "missing matrix" of translations, for translators? I speak English and German; I would like to see images that only have a German description, and translate it to English. A special site (toolserver?) could show me the image and the German description, I enter the English one in a text box, and go to a page with everything prepared for me, just click save and be done.
Go ahead: Toolserver's Templatetiger database has - though rather raw - data for Commons (cf. URI:http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/templatetiger/tt-table4.php?template=Information&lang=commonswiki&where=&is=). Problems I see:
- Tagging those pictures where the language of the descrip- tion is not specified (cf. [[File:Quail1.PNG]] (English) vs. [[File:Helsinkitram.jpg]] ((probably :-)) German). - Dealing with all the pictures that do not use {{Information}}.
Tim