This is what I have done so far - it has changed a bit from my previous
posts. Just a reminder - I am trying to start a single topic wiki with
a number of languages
1..Created a directory called files and placed all Mediawiki files into
it.
2..Created a directory /en and created symbolic links to all Mediawiki
files and directories in /files directory
3...Ran install process and moved LocalSettings.php to /en dir
3a...During install created a database called it sitename_en
3b...Please note that I shifted from one database with prefixes to
multiple databases named similarly. The databases with the prefixes did
not work properly.
4..Did the same process for da / es / fr
I then went into the interwiki table for each database and added a line
equivalent to:-
en htpp://domain.name/en/index.php?title=$1 0 0
for each of the languages in every language installed.
Each of the language sites seems to be working as they are supposed to
with the sidebar showing the appropriate languages etc.
I then began to make links from main pages in one language site to the
others. The problem I am now being faced with is that I am not getting
consistent language links coming up. Sometimes they work other times
they don't.
Any ideas why this might be happening.
Any other tips before I start playing with common settings.
Laurie
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Hi Laurie,
We have tried to do something similar on Yellowikis - but haven't ever
found a good solution.
At the moment our users have to log-on and change the language
displayed in the User Interface in their preferences.
It might be possible to run a wiki in each language and use the XML
from the Atom feed to allow changes to flow though the system - but it
doesn't seem a particularly efficient way to do this (particularly as
the database grows) and is outside my (limited) technical competence.
There was an experimental system at WikiPage.de run by User:Gangleri
that allowed non-logged in users to select from a list of different UI
languages - but it doesn't seem to be working anymore.
Best wishes
Paul
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On 12/11/05, Laurie Lewis <ldlewis(a)swiftdsl.com.au> wrote:
Ok,
Still having some problems with this so an outline of what I have done
and what I am getting.
1. Created directory /wiki
2. Created Sub directory /wiki/files and put all MediaWiki files
into this directory
3. Created dir /wiki/en and /wiki/es and /wiki/da
4. Made symbolic links of ALL directories (excluding config) to
/wiki/files
5. Made symbolic links to all other files in /wiki/files
6. pointed browser at
http://domain/wiki/en
7. configured for English and moved Localsettings and worked fine
8. Did same for Spanish and Danish
Tried to go to English site and just get Danish language all the time
and same with Spanish.
System is also using eaccelerator and each wiki configured to take
advantage of it.
All wiki's using the same database but have language extensions added
en_ da_ es_.
It is my intention to create a CommonSettings.php file and put an
include into the LocalSettings.php file. In the CommonSettings.php
file
I will probably move nearly everything from
LocalSetting except
language
settings and IP variable. Will also add the
following;-
I am going to add the following line to each
########Added by me to see if multi languages work
$wgInterwikiMagic = true;
OK first - can anyone tell me why the wiki's are all using the same
language - obviously a symbolic link is not appropriate for a file or
directory - any ideas.
Second - Have a missed anything else to configure a Multilanguage wiki
-
All the wikis are dealing with the same topic.
Thanks
Laurie
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church
Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2005 6:40 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Multiple languages
You can add multiple wikis to the same database using the $wgDBprefix
directive in LocalSettings.php. For instance, you might have the
following snippets:
$wgSitename = "English Wiki";
$wgDBprefix = "en_"
and
$wgSitename = "French Wiki";
$wgDBprefix = "fr_"
You'd put one in the LocalSettings.php for English, for example, and
one in the French. They would use the same database, but different
tables. Sharing users and other items wouldn't be possible with that
method, however - although you could read on Meta
(
http://meta.wikimedia.org) and
http://www.mediawiki.org for
information on the _experimental_ shared database feature.
You're right about having subdirectories; each wiki would need it's
own LocalSettings.php file. You could, with a little bit of work,
place common software files in a directory above each language, then
include a lot of files at the start, however that's a bit extra work.
Rob Church
On 08/12/05, Laurie Lewis <ldlewis(a)swiftdsl.com.au> wrote:
> 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-----
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> [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(a)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-----
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> > [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(a)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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