Hi All,
I'm trying to start an arabic wiki site (similar to the arabic Wikipedia) but when I install Mediawiki (1.2.5) and switch to the arabic language everything goes right-to-left but most of the messages (Link names, page titles, ...) stay in english. I'm not that PHP expert so I couldn't debug it.
LocalSettings.php contains the below two variables
$wgUseDatabaseMessages = false; $wgLanguageCode = "ar";
It is an in-place installation.
Thanks in advance, MO
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Mohammad wrote:
I'm trying to start an arabic wiki site (similar to the arabic Wikipedia) but when I install Mediawiki (1.2.5) and switch to the arabic language everything goes right-to-left but most of the messages (Link names, page titles, ...) stay in english. I'm not that PHP expert so I couldn't debug it.
LanguageAr.php is unfortunately not very complete; on ar.wikipedia.org most of the localized messages are provided by customized messages in the MediaWiki: namespace pages. Unless someone's already set up to do this, you'll have to collect them all and copy them in.
(This could be done programatically; the cur database dump available from http://download.wikimedia.org/ will include all pages including the special MediaWiki: pages which carry the localized messages.)
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