[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

[Brion Vibber]

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Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> Commons provides no benefit except for sharing the same picture to people
> who do not read / write English. They cannot possibly find pictures and
> consequently for them Commons is useless.

That's simply ridiculous.

Many files, categories, and galleries are labeled in multiple
languages... or even not in English at all. :)

Certainly it'll be *more useful* as we're able to add more widespread
tag/category translations to help automate cross-language search, but
the notion that people "cannot possibly find pictures" or that the site
is "useless" is ridiculous and undermines the legitimate portion of your
position (that it would be good to add more multilingual features to
Commons).

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