On Monday 11 July 2005 12:01 am, cookfire wrote:

edward molasses wrote:

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Hello,

I'm planning to setup a dictionary of terms related to the field of plant genetic resources, using MediaWiki. I want it to have all definitions in 5 different languages and there is a possibility of adding more.

I was wondering if the usual/recommended case of setting up a site like this would be to follow the model of Wiktionary and have separate installations for each language of the dictionary, using interwiki links between them (I would have all installations on the same server and use interwiki links, which I think amounts to the same structure of links as what we see in Wikitionary).

I'm not sure if this is the best idea for my case since perhaps for Wiktionary this installation fits the situation in regards to maintenance/curation and server load and in my case there would less server load and centralized maintenance/curation would be preferred.

So I suppose my main question is, are there more advantages to having everything on one MediaWiki installation or on separate installations? Also, what would the advantages/disadvantages be for each situation?

Any of your suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Andrew.

The reason why Wiktionary and Wikipedia have a wiki per language is because there are different teams with knowledge of those particular languages working on them. If you create a wiki for one specific purpose you better start off with only one wiki. It's always possible to set up multiple ones later if the need arises.

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Thanks for the help Polyglot. I suppose the reason I was thinking the multiple install would be a good idea was that it would separate the languages and make it simpler for some other functionality I would like to add such as dumping the content of one language to an sql file or pdf document. I don't know if the advantages for implementing this type of functionality would outweigh disadvantages.

Andrew.