[Mediawiki-l] Translations

[Laurie Lewis]

Have you set the default language in LocalSettings.php to Spanish

$wgLanguageCode = "es" ;

This should make the default language show up all system pages of the
wiki.  Also have you set your language preference to Spanish??

Laurie


-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ignacio Gonzalez
T.
Sent: Thursday, 22 December 2005 9:00 PM
To: mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Translations

Hello everybody.

I've recently installed Mediawiki in my Department's intranet web server
and 
things are working fine.

Alas, some text strings are in English (even very visible ones, such as 
discussion, edit and history) instead of in our local language
(Spanish). So I 
decided to translate them, for the beneift of my less international
mates.

After reading through the online help pages and documentation, I'm a bit

confused about the current procedure to translate a wiki to another 
language. On one hand, there is the LanguageXX.php files. On the other 
hand, there is the recommended procedure ("as of August 2005") to edit
the 
texts directly through the very wiki editing mechanism and the Special 
Pages.

The last method works fine and is very direct and easy to use. But I
find it 
very time consuming: instead of translating a batch of strings, I find
myself 
translating string by string and updating page by page on my (very slow)

server. At this pace, I won't have my wiki ready for Xmas.

Is there any batch procedure for doing the same "in just a couple of 
commits"? I mean, some php script, sql script or the like that takes all
the 
string from a text file or table and updates the whole thing. (I'm quite
new on 
php, sql, apache and life in general, so I don't know if I am asking for
absurd 
things).

Please forgive my naïveness.

Many thanks.
--
Ignacio Gonzalez
igtorque(AT)eliop(DOT)es(ANDTHISISTHEEND)

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