I have seen how to do sub-pages with the language code either at the front/middle or back, but this will not allow the sidebar to change as the languages change - at least I have not been able to figure out how to do this.
The second option you talk of is multiple wiki's. Not sure how to do this on the one domain but this is my best guess - pointing in the right direction would be good.
1. Create a subdirectory off the main wiki page for each language et /fr 2. Copy LocalSettings.php to that directory and change the following:- $wgLanguageCode = "en";
Not sure here what else might need to be changed.
In this way every language will use the same database have the same user base etc. It will also mean that if you create a page that exists in another language that it will show as existing and not as a new page.
Heck, Can anyone step me through it? Not confident after thinking about it a bit more.
laurie
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2005 7:11 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Multiple languages
To have multiple pages of the same content in different languages, either separate wikis are required, or you could do something with subpages, e.g. http://www.foo.com/wiki/Page/en, /wiki/Page/fr, etc...
Rob Church
On 07/12/05, Laurie Lewis ldlewis@swiftdsl.com.au wrote:
Ok,
Perhaps I need to provide a bit more information on where I am up to.
Using Mediawiki 1.5.3. I have setup 1 mysql database with no
extensions
being used.
I am at this time trying to determine how best to set up a multi-language wiki. I have been able to go into the interwiki
database
and add the language codes for the additional languages. Eg. nl http://nl.wiki.phpgedview.net/index.php?title=$1 1
Not quite sure what the 0 or 1 means in the iw_local field.
I have figured out that I need to include $wgInterwikiMagic = true;
into
my LocalSettings.php if I want the language codes to come up as XX.website.com/index... I have also seen that you can put the
language
code either before or after the $1 variable in the interwiki database
to
change where the language code comes up.
What I imagined would happen is that when you selected a different language that you would be able to edit the sidebar for each one
somehow
like I do for the default language (MediaWiki:Sidebar). I have also read somewhere that you need multiple databases for running multiple languages. This site is basically designed to be one document replicated into a number of languages.
Sorry but I am VERY new to all this and can not find an easy step through anywhere let alone a hard one.
I could also not find the work sidebar at all in Languagesxx.php file.
Laurie
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2005 1:11 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Multiple languages
What you should be able to do is edit the appropriate LanguageXX.php file, find the entry for 'sidebar', and edit that as appropriate. When a user selects a language other than the default, you should find the interface loads from that language file, and the sidebar should hopefully update.
Rob Church
On 07/12/05, Laurie Lewis ldlewis@swiftdsl.com.au wrote:
I am very new to wiki's and I am trying to set up a multiple
language
one. I can not get the sidebar to change to the appropriate
languages
etc when you select them.
Can anyone help me with a simple set through of what I should do
please.
Laurie
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