I am actually able to install extensions. As long as they don't require me
to execute command line instructions. I'll look into the translate extension
and see if that will work for me.
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From: Svip
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 01:54
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Multilingual wiki
On 9 February 2012 08:51, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>
wrote:
2012/2/8 Erik Luken <eluken(a)pentarch.org>rg>:
Hi,
What is the best way to set up multilingual capabilities on an existing
wiki? I administer a wiki that has gained some international followers,
and they’d like to translate it into their own language to help promote
it. Searching the
mediawiki.org site shows a number of extensions, but
none really seem to suit. Ideally, I’d like to have a situation where
there is pageX_en and pageX_de, pageX_ru, etc. Are there any recommended
practices for setting this up?
Hi Erik,
I'm not sure what your exact scenario is, but these pages may help:
* General info about MediaWiki localization capabilities:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation
An extension that gives you and your users an easy and structured way
to translate pages.
*
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate
*
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate
When used properly, this extension will create the links to the
translations automatically.
You should also know that in MediaWiki in general every user can
easily set his interface language in the preferences. The support for
this in MediaWiki 1.18 became even better.
Another possible scenario is to go the Wikipedia way and install
several instances of MediaWiki and enable interlanguage links; see
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Interlanguage_links . You can also mix
both ways.
If you'll describe in more detail to what extent do you want to
translate your wiki, we may be able to help more.
I hate to undermine such an excellent post, but he mentions in his
second post that he has no shell access. So extensions and wiki
families are out of the question, I'm afraid.
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