On 22 June 2010 17:32, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.comwrote:
When you think that Commons is bad in supporting other languages, try to find pictures of a horse on the internet in other languages like Estonian, Nepalese ... It is not the same at all as when you are looking for images in English.
Don't most Internet users know enough English to be able to search for "pictures of a horse" in English?
(According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage), yes... "Most Internet users speak the English language as a native or secondary language.")
In practice pulling up the wikipedia article on "horse" in your language will cover most cases. There is a fairly good argument to be made that wikipedia is common's best search engine.