On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Mel Chua wrote: >> Do you know how to add several languages in our wiki? > > Poking the iaep metabrain, in case someone else has better ideas... > > I know of several ways of doing multiple languages with mediawiki, > none > of which are super-ideal. > > * the way Wikipedia does it - multiple mediawiki installs, one per > language (de.wikipedia.org is a separate install from > en.wikipedia.org) > and crosslinks between the different language instances for the same > term/article. There's no real good way to make sure the content in one > language is synced with the same content in another. > > * the way the OLPC wiki does it: all-in-one-mediawiki-instance, with > page titles in the different languages. [[Sugar]] and [[Azucar]], for > instance. Same syncing problem as above.
Speaking as someone who maintains pages in two languages on the OLPC Wiki, the translation template does provide a link on every translated page that lets readers compare the "canonical language page" which was used to generate the tranlsation with the current "canonical language page". > * There's a nice Google Translate template at the top (see the blue > bar > across the top of http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Content) that > works pretty well, though it doesn't help people who want to edit in a > language that the page isn't in. Unedited google translations are painful to read (but better than nothing). > * Also using http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Content as an > example: > inline translation (BAD IDEA, does not scale). You can see the French > words inline with the English, and how it makes the page harder to > read > for readers of /either/ language (imo). Such a bad idea it shouldn't even have been mentioned! Cheers, wad _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
