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

[Magnus Manske]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> When people from other projects tell me that this is one of the reasons why
> they do not bother with Commons, I have to disbelieve them? Try to find
> "paard" and you will not be served in the same way as with "horse" the
> search result is inferior. Dutch is not the worst option, try "ίππος"  and
> you find nothing. This is Greek and it also means horse.

They might not be able to find "ίππος". However, they might be able to
use this big list of word pairs called a dictionary to translate
"ίππος" into English "horse" and search for that.

Not very comfortable, but hardly impossible as you claim.

Magnus