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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Gerard Meijssen >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
