2012/2/8 Erik Luken <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > What is the best way to set up multilingual capabilities on an existing wiki? > I administer a wiki that has gained some international followers, and they’d > like to translate it into their own language to help promote it. Searching > the mediawiki.org site shows a number of extensions, but none really seem to > suit. Ideally, I’d like to have a situation where there is pageX_en and > pageX_de, pageX_ru, etc. Are there any recommended practices for setting this > up?
Hi Erik, I'm not sure what your exact scenario is, but these pages may help: * General info about MediaWiki localization capabilities: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation An extension that gives you and your users an easy and structured way to translate pages. * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate When used properly, this extension will create the links to the translations automatically. You should also know that in MediaWiki in general every user can easily set his interface language in the preferences. The support for this in MediaWiki 1.18 became even better. Another possible scenario is to go the Wikipedia way and install several instances of MediaWiki and enable interlanguage links; see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Interlanguage_links . You can also mix both ways. If you'll describe in more detail to what extent do you want to translate your wiki, we may be able to help more. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
