Mohsen Saboorian a écrit :

Hi list,

I'm trying to make a multilingual wiki, using Languages template provided on mediawiki.org: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Languages.

1. Is there any way to change the whole wiki UI, as user chooses a

page on a sample language? 2. How can I support right to left languages?

Regards, Mohsen.

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1- I do that in my MultiLanguage Manager Extenssion : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultiLanguageManager

I only do it for guest user. the logged in users can choose their language in their account settings. there is no reason to overload their choice

if you use mediawiki >= 1.7.0

you can use the 'BeforePageDisplay' hooks to change the UI language

$wgHooks['BeforePageDisplay'][] = 'mlChangeLanguageForGuest'; //1.7.0

function mlChangeLanguageForGuest($out) { global $wgLang; global $wgUser; global $wgLanguageCode; if (!$wgUser->isLoggedIn()) { $page=Title::newFromText($out->getPageTitle()); if (get_class($page)=="Title") { $i=$page->getArticleID(); $controller=new MultiLanguageManager_controller();

MultiLanguageManager_controller::setUILanguage($controller->getPageLanguage($i)); } } }

public static function setUILanguage($lang) { global $wgLanguageCode,$wgLang,$wgLangClass; global $mgVersion; if ($mgVersion<10800) {

$wgLangClass = 'Language' . str_replace( '-', '_', ucfirst( $lang ) ); $wgLang = setupLangObj( $wgLangClass ); $wgLang->initEncoding(); $wgLanguageCode = $wgLang->getCode(); } else { $wgLang=Language::factory($lang); $wgLanguageCode = $wgLang->getCode();

} }

($mgVersion is contruct from the wiki version (x.y.z => (((x*100)+y)*100) +z

you can simplify this code if you don't want backward compatibility

Marc