v1.4 sounds perfect.
Anyone want to guess how long it will take to stabilize?
Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rowan Collins" rowan.collins@gmail.com To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:33 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Iinformation Architectures
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:27:15 +0100, Paul Youlten paul.youlten@gmail.com wrote:
I want to start a wiki where users have the option to use a different language front-end - but all the data is held in one central database. So if I search from the German start page - I might get results that were originally added in Spanish or French.
Is there an elegant way of achieving this?
Well, as of version 1.4 (currently in beta) MediaWiki allows each user to select the language used by the *interface*. Thus you could have a site that was multilingual (as http://meta.wikimedia.org is, at least theoretically) and people could search whatever was there, translating for each other's convenience as necessary. [For obvious reasons, automatic translation is not a good idea.]
Alternatively, you could have multiple instances of MediaWiki with appropriate interlanguage linking (as currently used by Wikipedia), and come up with some kind of "meta search" that could find content in any of them - some work has gone into abstracted search systems, I believe, specifically in relation to "Lucene" (?); but no-one, as far as I know, has developed a multi-MediaWiki search engine (apart from Google with an appropriate "site:..." term, of course!)
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