[Clipart] Different languages VS English clipart names

chovynz chovynz at gmail.com
Sat May 9 14:46:40 PDT 2009


Quick question that might have a large impact. :)

Do we want the clipart entry in English? or other languages as well (since
OCAL is global.)
My thoughts on this:

It is useful for the other languages to have their stuff in their language,
and I don't have a problem with entries being in their languages. However,
English has become a global language, with most countries learning it as a
general educational standard.

Taking this into account, and using the tags it can be easy to find things
that you are looking for, if you know how to search. Using this recent entry
as an example: http://openclipart.org/media/files/ha1flosse/13111

This is named "Delphin". This entry won't come up when searching for
"dolphin", but it will show up when the tag dolphin is used. I'm guessing
this is a French entry.

Is this language entry a problem? Do we want most entries to have an English
title, or can we get away with a description with the English words?




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Cheers
Chovynz
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