On 22 June 2010 17:32, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Gerard Meijssen > <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> When you think that Commons is bad in supporting other languages, try to >> find pictures of a horse on the internet in other languages like Estonian, >> Nepalese ... It is not the same at all as when you are looking for images >> in >> English. > > > Don't most Internet users know enough English to be able to search for > "pictures of a horse" in English? > > (According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage), > yes... "Most Internet users speak the English language as a native or > secondary language.")
In practice pulling up the wikipedia article on "horse" in your language will cover most cases. There is a fairly good argument to be made that wikipedia is common's best search engine. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
