Just a little clarification:
Rolf Lampa wrote:
Frederich, Eric P21322 wrote:
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In that case links within German pages would have to do stuff like this [[Microsoft Word de|Microsoft Word]]. With a namespace I'm guessing they'd just have to do [[de:Microsoft Word]]...is that correct?
Yes.
What I should have been clearer about below was that you can of course combine the two and use the [[de:title]]-link syntax, but then also define the interwiki to add the suffix (instead of the user having to do BOTH, namely defining both the language directive, [[de: ]], AND the language code again at the end of the title ( [[:de:title de]] ).
For this reason I suggested that the interwiki mechanism could insert the last "de" for you (see the trailing /"$1 de" below, with or without the underscore):
You can of course (technically) do without the de-namespace and instead define the interwiki link to produce suffixes instead:
+----+---------------------------------------------+---+---+ | de | http://www.example.com/wiki/index.php/$1_de | 1 | 0 |
But this solution wouldn't give the user the *option* of "turning off" search from one (or more) languages. I think the Namespace solution would be preferable if one plans to integrate the languages in the same wiki (since it makes languages searchable optionally), but that's only my opinion.
But as said, I still vote for the Namespace solution. =)
Regards,
// Rolf Lampa