[Commons-l] Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons

[Yann Forget]

daniel1978 at uol.com.br a écrit :
> Sorry, but categories should have English-language names only.

How can you decide that?

> How can someone find "Bridges in Athens" if the category title was written 
> in Greek? Or "Palaces in Istambul"? Or "Rivers in India" (and what alphabet 
> should we use in this last case?).

Categories redirect works quite well, so this argument is not valid.
See for example http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Monte_Bianco

> And category redirects do not work well, because they divide the media and 
> cause more and more confusion.

See above.

> My mother tongue is not English, but it's clear to me that we must have a 
> lingua franca in order to understand each other.
> 
> If a find a picture of Teheran and I want to categorize it I'll have to find 
> the correct Persian name of the correct category? That doesn't make sense to 
> me. People should know that is no offence to use English in order to achieve 
> a greater good: communication and understanding.
> 
> Dantadd

Regards,

Yann