Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 22:14, Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
Does the Image: namespace still contain ALL the images used in ALL the differerent language versions of the wikipedia?
Not by a long shot. A lot of stuff used on the other wikis (and some used on the English) is on http://meta.wikipedia.com/.
Incidentally; _should_ we have a convenient procedure for sharing images between language wikis using a variation of the [[image:foo]] syntax? Most images are photographs or don't contain (or don't need) any language-specific text, and it doesn't make a lot of sense to have 25-odd copies of every one.
I'm looking at orphaned images and wondering what to do about the large number of orphans with labels/captions/titles in languages other than English. Do I just pretend they're not there?
eg. 'auge.gif' - a German diagram of the human eye, with labels. Looks like it comes from a textbook.
As noted in the image page, that's used in [[de:Auge]]. It's exactly the same as the image in the English article [[Eye]], with the text rewritten in German.
'angulorecto.png' - a Right Angle, labelled in a language I can't identify.
Spanish. A local copy of the same image is used on enciclopedia.us.es. (I note that there's no text *in* the image; feel free to use it to illustrate a new English article [[Right angle]].)
Brion Vibber left this link on my talk page: http://leuksman.com/misc/wikisearch.php angulorecto.png does not appear to be used anywhere, though the word occurs on the Esperanto Wiki.
Yes; note that a bunch of images are indirectly linked to from [[eo:Brion VIBBER/Dezirataj]], where I have a list of images on www. and meta.wikipedia.com that could be used in articles on that wiki, but mostly aren't yet.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)