Multi-lingual wiki is a right pain in the ****. Setting up a single language wiki is ease itself (well done folks). Setting up a multi-lingual wiki is a nightmare (maybe if Jimbo and others worked in a multiligual enviroment like Belgium life would be different).
For example: * for every language you have to set up a new database (even if it is part of the same single database, I still have to go through the setup) * I have to have a separate copy of the MediaWiki code for every language or figure out the wizardry to use a single version with different LocalSettings per language * I have to figure out how I'm going to sort out the problem of multiple signons (each language will have separate signons - that is just so NOT what you want when you just want a site in 2 languages (say).
I am in Belgium where every site is always in French and Dutch and I am gradually figuring out each of the gotchas for my site www.treekee.com.
Next I want to figure out how to do it simply for a truly multinational site (70+ languages).
It should ideally be as easy as saying, in LocalSettings.php, this is the list of languages I want supported: $langsSupported = array("en", "fr", "de", "pl", "zh"); $defaultLang = "en";
It's not. It's just a nightmare.
"Andre-John Mas" Andre-John.Mas@simplernetworks.com wrote in message news:23BEE0D8F55D0747A13EFE0A6937FFA1BF6792@simnet.simplernetworks.com...
Just curious, what do you see as the type of issues that exist with regards to accepting multilingual content?
Andre