Lunch talk - multilingual wiki

Lunch talk: Multilingual wiki

Supporting a multilingual wiki

"Smart" language switchers

Language support

options to define which languages are used in the wiki

Navigation

a mechanism to automatically switch between the language versions of a page

Tracking

a property that tracks the page language for each page (supported in BlueSpice pro)

fallback: categories track the page language (BlueSpice free)

Support for display title

needed for the subpage-technique

Switcher comparison

• Languages: subpages
• InterLanguages: unrelated pages

User language support

Based on system messages

• imported with language switcher template
• needs to be checked for {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}

{{int:message name}}

• Translates the interface message into the user language
• {{int:lang}}

Add or switch content

• Switch the entire page content
• Show additional content

Support templates/forms

Switch labels

Category system

Further considerations

• Ad-hoc on-page translation (DeepL) -> duplicate page to make translation permanent
• Improvements to sidebar regarding language support
• MediaWiki translation extension

Documentation

Helpdesk EN: Multilingual wiki