Hi Nemo, the link to the Commons page was the first one in the email, and that's what the "accordingly" referred to. Yes, adding the same markers as in the Commons templates, e.g. a <span class="licensetpl_short"> to wrap the short name of the license, should have the same effect on a local upload being as it does on the Commons version of the file. I'd guess there would be some quick wins on the most commonly used templates. In cases where it fails, the media viewer will just add an explicit link to the file description page, so it's not the end of the world. Perhaps so, but that's a bigger discussion for another place and another time. The hardest problems take the longest to solve, and in a context where for most of the 9 years, we've been technically very resource-constrained (we exceeded 10 full-time MediaWiki developers only in 2010), it's no surprise that implementing a multilingual tagging system and other fundamental improvements to multi-language support in a single wiki installation have not been done yet, nor ought it be cause for complaint or concern. That is especially so given that throughout that history, many people (yours truly included) have already done a significant amount of thinking about the nature of some of the necessary technical improvements. Daniel Kinzler's WikiWord [1], back in 2008, demonstrated that a lot of the necessary information for building a multilingual tagging system exists in the form of interlanguage links, a fact that influenced the design of Wikidata and the initial focus on language links, since this would enable the quick evolution of a multilingual corpus of concepts. Prior to Wikidata, OmegaWiki demonstrated that concepts annotated and edited in a wiki-style fashion could potentially be used to describe images and other media in a multilingual manner. The first proposal for this was written by GerardM in 2005, something that he, Kipcool and others continued to pursue in OmegaWiki for years to come (OW now supports Commons media). [2] [3] The Wikimedia community, too, has made many improvements to language support in Commons itself, from the language selection features that predated ULS (and are still the only mechanism for anonymous user language selection) to localization of templates. The Language Engineering team contributed massive improvements to the Translate extension (active on Commons) and ULS which, while it still has its kinks, provides many important features that improve multilingual collaboration. It is true that a lot of these mechanisms are hackish, but again, we're solving hard problems, which frankly haven't been solved well by others yet. Rather than complaining about technical debt, I think we ought to celebrate how much work has already been done. These foundations help us see a clearer picture of how to actually implement something like a tagging system (although many important questions have yet to be answered). Then, still, we will not be satisfied until we have better multilingual discussion, or open source machine translation, or ... Iterative progress is to be expected. The Wikidata team sees multilanguage support for Commons as a potential near-term frontier, and I think that's the right group of people to think about the problem. Daniel has written up an initial metadata proposal back in June, here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata_for_media_info There's still lots of work on the core of Wikidata before we can really expect them to take this one, but I for one am optimistic, and proud that so much good work has already been done. Erik [1] http://brightbyte.de/page/WikiWord [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_OmegaWiki_for_Commons [3] http://omegawiki.blogspot.com/search/label/Commons -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation