On 9 February 2012 08:51, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. I hate to undermine such an excellent post, but he mentions in his second post that he has no shell access. So extensions and wiki families are out of the question, I'm afraid. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
