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Commons:Village pump

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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)

: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)

:Oh, and the actual answer to the question, if I'd remember that, is "no", there is nothing set up to find "Media needing categorization with descriptions in [language]" or even "Media with descriptions in [language]", "Media with filenames in [language]" --[[User:Moogsi|moogsi]] ([[User talk:Moogsi|blah]]) 05:23, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

:Oh, and the actual answer to the question, if I'd remember that, is "no", there is nothing set up to find "Media needing categorization with descriptions in [language]" or even "Media with descriptions in [language]", "Media with filenames in [language]" --[[User:Moogsi|moogsi]] ([[User talk:Moogsi|blah]]) 05:23, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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::We do have [[:Category:Categories by language]] and all her daughters, but probably not as comprehensive as described by Phœbe. [[User:Jean-Frédéric|Jean-Fred]] ([[User talk:Jean-Frédéric|talk]]) 08:38, 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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