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

[Magnus Manske]

Please don't puts words (or notions) in my mouth.

At the moment, Commons works best for you when you can read/write English.
But if you don't, you can still do simple searches using a dictionary,
and find many useful images.
This fact contradicts your earlier statement that Commons is useless
to non-English speakers.

That's what I said, nothing more.

Magnus


On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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