[Mediawiki-l] Supporting multiple language articles - URL formation

[Fred Bauder]

There was some thought (I think, by Proteus of GetWiki) that this could be accomplished through creating namespaces for each language. We played around with this a bit, but now I am out of touch with him.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Coghlan [mailto:pcoghlan at usa.net]
>Sent: Sunday, April 1, 2007 10:45 AM
>To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list'
>Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Supporting multiple language articles - URL formation
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>I need to support multiple languages on my wiki. I am trying at all costs to
>avoid multiple MW installations such as at wikipedia using sub domains.
>Mainly because I allow everyone to see everything. This way an Italian
>speaker sees both Italian and English articles BUT they can specify only
>Italian articles in their search.
>
>I have sorted out the ability to automatically change the interface language
>per user from Drupal. I am now looking at URL formation, ensuring different
>and user generated URLs exist for the same articles in multiple languages.
>
>For example, the English article about Milan, Italy would be at
>/Milan%2C_Italy. The Italian version would be different in that it would be
>at /Milano%2C_Italia. This doesn't represent a problem as they are
>different.
>
>However, the article about India will be the same in both languages, /India.
>
>Has anyone tackled this issue? I am thinking that possibly a namespace might
>be helpful?
>
>Something like:
>
>Italiano:Milano%2Italia
>Milan%2Italy
>
>Italiano:India
>India
>
>Would this work? Would an Italian speaker who is looking at the /Italia page
>and then creates a sub page called /Milano have it automatically go into the
>Italiano namespace?
>
>I am not even sure if I am making myself clear on this issue. If not let me
>know.
>
>Thanks,
>Paul
>
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