2012/2/9 Svip <[email protected]>: > 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.
Grrr, missed that :( Well, adding namespace would be a somewhat weird solution. It's probably better to use subpages - Page/fr for French etc., or to simply add pages in other languages and link between them using clever templates, as it is done on many pages on meta.wikimedia.org, such as https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polls_are_evil . _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
