[Mediawiki-l] How to do multi-lingual co-ordination?

Shuan Lo shuanlo at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 8 03:48:02 UTC 2007


Good question Paul. I wonder how is it done in Wikipedia. Is it one wiki 
or several? Which one is more suitable for my needs?

What I am tasked to do should hold matching, but may not be identical, 
content in different languages - like what Wikipedia appears to me.

> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:18:11 -0400
> From: Paul Coghlan <pcoghlan at usa.net>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to do multi-lingual co-ordination?
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> Shuan
>
> Are you trying to have a single wiki holding multi-lingual or have multiple
> wikis (English, Spanish, German etc) that hold the same information but in
> different languages?
>
> Each is possible but fundamentally quite different.
>
> Paul
>
> On 6/7/07 6:10 AM, "Shuan Lo" <shuanlo at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm totally new to MediaWiki. I hope I'm posting this question to the
>> right place. Please forgive me if I'm wroing.
>>
>> I've been tasked to plan and design a content management site that will
>> host multi-lingual content - just like Wikipedia. I'm wondering how the
>> link-ups between different lingual content is done. Is it done manually,
>> or is there a functionality in MediaWiki for doing such co-ordinations?
>>
>> Any advice will be appreciated. Thank you!
>>
>> Shuan
>>
>>
>>
>>     



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