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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
An answer like that justifies and inforces the notion that Commons is only
for those that can read / write English. To me this is not acceptable
because it degrades Commons to less then what it should be, what it could
be.
Thanks,
      GerardM

2008/12/9 Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com>

> 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
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