On Wednesday, 2nd August 2006 at 14:12:04 (GMT +0200), Hugh Prior wrote:
In LocalSettings, make sure you have:
$wgHideInterlanguageLinks = false;
Yes, that far we did get. :-) It's too bad this isn't enough to make
"interlanguage intrawiki" links (Filip's term) work out of the box. :-|
You can see the difference by comparing:
http://en.chainki.org - hide set to true
http://fr.chainki.org - hide set to false
Looks like a monumental project. If you really need to do the wiki
installation for each language separately (70 times over), that would
be enough to drive anyone nuts.
As to the suggestion of using different namespaces for
diffrent languages,
the problem would be that you would not be able to change the interface
languge (i.e. you would have all your sections in the same language).
I think we'll be more modest for now and can live with the default
(Slovak) interface for webpages in any language.
After all, once you manage to register at the wiki, you can pick
your preferred language and from that moment on, if you're
logged in, those different namespaces would display
the preferred interface language, right?
The problem is not new. We also run a multi-lingual discussion
board, phpBB, and you have the same problem there. Until you
log in, the interface displays only one default language.
We had to create accounts for Swedes and Spaniards who
had no idea where to click on a Slovak site. There's probably
no solution for this on a phpBB site. (So let's be grateful
for the nightmarish MediaWiki solutions. ;-)))
The whole multilingual thing might work for Wikipedia,
but for Joe Bloggs
wanting a simple way to set up (say) a bi or tri lingual site, it's
a nightmare. See also
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6107
Depressing reading. Maybe that's typical of versions 1.x. Maybe
when MediaWiki is at version 6, you'll just have to push a button
and 70+ language interfaces will be installed for you. ;-)
Thank you very much for the advice and good luck with your project (about
a hundred times more ambitious than ours in terms of multilinguality).
--
Yours,
Alex.
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