[Mediawiki-l] multilanguage in single project

[Paul Coghlan]

I am setting up MW 1.9.3 in the next several days for English, Italian and
Spanish as follows:

New en, it and es folders off the /wiki folder. A copied LocalSettings.php
file in each sub folder. New tables in the database with different prefixes;
en_, it_ and es_.  The new LocalSettings.php files edited to look at these
new tables.

Apache aliases to ensure domain.com/it/Milano refers to the index.php in the
mother folder (/wiki). This in turn will use the /it LocalSettings.php for
the Italian wiki.

I will post results as they are available but in theory this should allow
multiple languages on a single MW installation with distinct wikis. This
removes issues with version control and extension management.

To give credit where credit is due this configuration came from Jim Wilson.

Paul



On 4/5/07 4:47 PM, "Rob Church" <robchur at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/04/07, Armin Kniesel <armin.kniesel at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I installed this Multilang manually, but i don't know how to use it in wiki.
>> Is there anywhere a description?
> 
> The version of Multilang in Subversion is experimental, and doesn't
> have documentation, but the basic gist of it is:
> 
> <language code="en">Text in English.</language>
> <language code="fr">Text in French.</language>
> <multilang />
> 
> The <multilang /> tag is replaced with an appropriate <language>
> block; if a block in the user's current language preference is
> available, then that's used, otherwise the content language (if
> available). If neither of those are available, then it falls back to
> the first available language block defined.
> 
> If a <language> tag doesn't have a "code" attribute, then it will be ignored.
> 
> 
> Rob Church
> 
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