Hello Garth,
I've searched rather far and wide for an example configuration of a single topic wiki with a number of languages, but haven't found anything other than a few disparate suggestions of how to go about implementing it using the existing version of mediawiki. The general requirements are:
- Like wikipedia, language in indicated in the domain name (e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/, etc).
- The user database is shared among all language wikis, but articles
are not. Images/media are shared.
- The code is not duplicated in multiple folders. Symbolic linking is okay.
Depending on the size of your wiki, the other option is using sub-pages for each language as described here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Languages
for example:
http://www.myWiki.org/wiki/Main http://www.myWiki.org/wiki/Main/DE http://www.myWiki.org/wiki/Main/FR http://www.myWiki.org/wiki/Main/ES etc.
which gives you a language bar at the bottom of your screen.
Mark W.