On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smole...@eunet.rs> wrote: > On 06/22/2010 08:07 PM, Magnus Manske wrote: >>>> 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). > > I already made something similar: http://toolserver.org/~nikola/mis.php
Nice! Now it needs language auto-detect, and Estonian for the example (unless I didn't see it), and, of course, integration into Commons... _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l