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==indicating file description language==

==indicating file description language==

I know descriptions can be and often are multilingual, but I'm wondering if there's any way to group or indicate images (template or category, maybe?) that are described in a particular language? I'm thinking this might be useful for maintenance, particularly for smaller languages -- for instance indicating uncategorized images that could benefit from review by someone who reads the language that they are described in; and perhaps for translation. Is there anything like this? Thanks, sorry if this is an old issue. -- [[User:Phoebe|Phoebe]] ([[User talk:Phoebe|talk]]) 02:55, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

I know descriptions can be and often are multilingual, but I'm wondering if there's any way to group or indicate images (template or category, maybe?) that are described in a particular language? I'm thinking this might be useful for maintenance, particularly for smaller languages -- for instance indicating uncategorized images that could benefit from review by someone who reads the language that they are described in; and perhaps for translation. Is there anything like this? Thanks, sorry if this is an old issue. -- [[User:Phoebe|Phoebe]] ([[User talk:Phoebe|talk]]) 02:55, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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:I was thinking the same thing... you need to be reasonably fluent in the language in question AND English to categorize things. Uploads in minority languages are pretty rare, people generally don't upload in African languages if they can do it in French/English/etc. The last images to be categorized are often in something like Malayalam, which is far from a minority language, but seems to lack good translation tools into non-Indic languages. Chinese text is also notoriously difficult to machine-translate. I think filenames and descriptions are pretty good targets for automatic translation, they often involve proper nouns and aren't complicated. Unless you are doing English ↔ German translation with Google, which is still shockingly bad :) --[[User:Moogsi|moogsi]] ([[User talk:Moogsi|blah]]) 04:45, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

== [[:Category:Demolished buildings]] and the purpose of the category system ==

== [[:Category:Demolished buildings]] and the purpose of the category system ==

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