Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> The other day I blogged about a Wikimedian in Iran who is sitting on 5Gb
> of images

I am curious as to the nature of that 5 GB

> and it is too much of a pain for him to upload it.

Can you clarify?  Uploading ~1000 images is bound to be /tedious/, but
it's not /difficult/ with something like Commonist
(http://www.djini.de/software/commonist/)

> If Google is to become usable, it needs to support languages like
> Persian, Gujarati, Amharic to make the images we have available to all
> of our community.

I think you're in the wrong place to suggest changes to Google.

> Given that Commons has only 3.7 million files is hardly a sign of its
> success, compare it to Flickr and you see what the "competition" is doing.

This comparison makes no sense.  The vast majority of the images on
Flickr are illegal, non-free, non-educational, or all three.  Commons
does not want those images.  There are a small subset that are
appropriate for Commons, and editors (including me) work on bringing
them over.

Matt Flaschen

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