On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Bence Damokos <bdamo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:42 PM, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> I would consider this state as a poor reflection on Commons' accessibility. > Especially as Google image search (imho, the likeliest avenue of searching > for images) gives 130 000 pictures of horses on Commons if searched in > English, zero if searched in Estonian ("hobu"), and while it gives 160 000 > results for a Hungarian search ("ló") on the first page only one of it is an > image that resembles a horse.
Here's a thought: Enter "hobu" into translate.google.com, leave "source language" on automatic and target on "English", and it will happily translate it into "horse". Could we offer a "translation" link in search? As in, "translate my query into English and try again"? I'm sure we can come to an arrangement with Google (or someone else). Magnus _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l