[Mediawiki-l] Language change (German→English)

[Olivier Beaton]

You may need to run rebuildMessages.php (may have different case) in
the maintenance folder after changing the code.

In the case of renamed links, for those that are not dynamically
generated somehow, you can use replaceText extension to do a
search+replace of all links in all articles.

Have fun!

- Olivier

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/11/11 22:41, "Thomas Uwe Grüttmüller" wrote:
>> Hi wiki fans
>>
>> I have a question: What would be the easiest way to change the default language of a wiki from German to English?
>>
>> I have a wiki about free music, located on a virtual server:
>>   http://musik.uni-guehlen.de
>>
>> At the time of the installation, I chose German, but now I think it would be useful to a lot more people if its default language was English, and if a multilingual approach was used such as the one used at commons.wikimedia.org.
>>
>> So what do I have to do to switch
>> * the default of the user interface
>> * the prefix of each namespace (e.g. from “Vorlage:” to “template:”)
>> * other language specific stuff
>
> Just set $wgLanguageCode = "en"; where you have $wgLanguageCode = "de";
> in your LocalSettings.
> The user interfacedefault and the namespace prefixes will change back to
> English. Which mean that links to eg. [[Diskussion:Foo]] won't work
> anymore, as it is now [[Talk:Foo]].
> You'll need to add aliases for each of them.
>
>
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