RE: [Mediawiki-l] Multiple languages

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 -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [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: right user to. database file. When the _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l