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Lunch talk: Multilingual wiki

Supporting a multilingual wiki

Mechanisms to support 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

text

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

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-To get a better overview of all templates in the wiki, you can catalog them through semantic attributes.
+=Lunch talk: Multilingual wiki=
+==<span class="mw-customtoggle-graphic">Supporting a multilingual wiki</span>==
+<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-graphic">[[File:Multilingual wiki.drawio.png|alt=Mechanisms to support a multilingual wiki |center|706x706px]]</div>
+==<span class="mw-customtoggle-LanguageSwitcher">"Smart" language switchers</span>==
+<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
+<div class="sectionflex col2 background">
+<div>
+=== Language support===
+options to define which languages are used in the wiki
+</div>
+<div>
+=== Navigation===
+a mechanism to automatically switch between the language versions of a page
+</div>
+<div>
+===Tracking ===
+a property that tracks the  page language for each page (supported in BlueSpice pro)
-==Steps==
+fallback: categories track the page language (BlueSpice free)
+</div>
+<div>
+===Support for display title===
+needed for the subpage-technique
+</div>
+</div>
-#'''Activate'''  the feature ''Semantic MediaWiki''  for the namespace "Template"  in the [[Manual:Extension/BlueSpiceNamespaceManager|namespace manager]].  [[File:Manual:1652434929387.png|alt=Namespace manager|center|thumb|450x450px|Namespace manager]]
+==== Switcher comparison ====
-#'''Create''' the page ''Property:Is_templateType''. '''Add''' the following content and '''save''' the page:<syntaxhighlight lang="text">
-This is a property of type [[Has type::Text]].
+* '''Languages:''' subpages
-</syntaxhighlight>[[File:Manual:1652435035799.png|alt=Create a property|center|thumb|750x750px|Create a property]]
+* '''InterLanguages:''' unrelated pages
-#'''Add''' the attribute with a value in source editing mode to your templates, wrapped in a  <code><nowiki><noinclude></noinclude></nowiki></code> tag . The <code><nowiki><noinclude>...</noinclude></nowiki></code> tag is required so that pages that include this template, are not cataloged as well:<syntaxhighlight lang="text"><noinclude>'''Property type''': [[is_templateType::General]]</noinclude>
+</div>
-</syntaxhighlight>[[File:Manual:property page.png|alt=add property to a template page|center|thumb|750x750px|add property to a template page]]
+==<span class="mw-customtoggle-useLang">User language support</span>==
-#'''Add''' the following SMW-query on any wiki page to create an overview that shows your cataloged templates:<syntaxhighlight lang="text">
+<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">text</div>
-{{#ask: [[is_templateType::+]]
+==<span class="mw-customtoggle-cats">Category system</span>==
-|?ist_Templatetype=Template type
+<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">[[File:multilingual-categories.png|alt=Multilingual categories|center]]</div>
-|mainlabel=Template
+==<span class="mw-customtoggle-ideas">Further considerations</span>==
-|format=table
+<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
-|class=datatable
+* Ad-hoc on-page translation (DeepL) -> duplicate page to make translation permanent
-}}
+* Improvements  to sidebar regarding language support
-</syntaxhighlight>[[File:Manual:smw-query-templateslist.png|alt=List of templates in the wiki|center|thumb|750x750px|List of templates in the wiki]]
+* MediaWiki translation extension
-[[Category:SMW]]
-[[en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
+== Documentation ==
-[[de:Handbuch:SMW/Vorlagenübersicht]]
+Helpdesk EN: [[Multilingual wiki]]
+</div>
+__NOTOC__
+__HIDETITLE__

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