On 9/14/07, Brianna Laugher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13/09/2007, Desilets, Alain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One comment about the user interface of your prototype. It's too focused on > > the query words, and not enough on the images. > > It's not my prototype, but I agree, the interface is very clunky, in > English at least. They could streamline it a lot more. Make reasonable > assumptions (like: person using English interface inputs English > words), but let people "undo" those assumptions if they want.
OK, my usual cheap hack: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/cigs.php Splits your search query into words, checks wikipedia language links for that word, constructs a google image search from it. No autodetect for language (too lazy). Only uses the four (politically incorrectly labeled) languages, which was necessary for google search not to blow up on 50 different words, times two or three... Also, you have to write "title style". Try German, "Hund schwarz" (nor "schwarzer Hund", as you would write natively), an you will actually get images of black dogs on the wikis. Google word grouping sometimes doesn't work as expected, though. Does Yahoo work any better? Magnus _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
