[Mediawiki-l] A problem of language page control

[Anne Wilson]

As our wiki grows I become more aware that any major re-organisation needs 
doing now, before it becomes impossible.  With that in mind I've taken the 
first steps in categorizing the pages.  I've been looking at extensions that 
provide navigation aids, and see that category pages are essential to most of 
those.  That brings up this very thorny question of language pages.

Unless something is done about it, the Welcome page could have 20 or more 
entries on its category page, depending on how active our translators have 
been.  This clearly gets to the point where the page is unreadable.

It has been said to me that we should be using namespaces for languages, and 
that doing that would mean that in a search, for example, only pages in your 
system language would be returned.  I've only just started reading the 
documentation, but I get the impression that this is not so.

I should add that we are sandbox testing the use of the translatewiki 
extension and are currently considering the changes needed before 
implementation.

Apart from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Namespace and the pages linked 
from there, is there any other reading that I should be considering?

Anne
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