On 8/30/07, Andrew &lt;bouncey2k(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: The problem with this is that nearly every image on Commons needs to be translated into some language. The only images that are consistently translated into more than 5 are the featured pictures and pictures of the day, but considering how many files Commons has that is certainly a small percentage. Categories such as you describe may seem like a good idea, but they will contain about (very very vague guess here) 95% of all the files we currently have; at 1,828,506 <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics>files and counting, that is a lot of files to have in a category. The only category that will be less full would be the "English translation required" category, but that one will have quite a number of files as well. I think a better way to do it is probably to increase awareness about translation efforts, ask for volunteers to translate images as they come across them, or even let other-language wikis know that their contributors are more than welcome to come to Commons and translate the description of a file they are using. If every person who comes from it. or fr. or de. or ru. or zh. (etc. etc.) wiki to find a picture for a new article on their wikipedia translated the descriptions of the 5 - 10 files they come across in their search, that would be a huge help. If there are 200 people from other-language wikis coming to Commons every day to look for images, each look at at 3 images and translate the descriptions, that's 600 new translations per day. -- Ayelie ~Editor at Large