Lunch talk: Multilingual wiki[edit | edit source]
Supporting a multilingual wiki[edit | edit source]
"Smart" language switchers[edit | edit source]
Language support[edit | edit source]
options to define which languages are used in the wiki
Switching pages[edit | edit source]
a mechanism to automatically switch between the language versions of a page
Tracking[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
needed for the subpage-technique
Switcher comparison[edit | edit source]
- Languages: subpages
- InterLanguages: unrelated pages
User language support[edit | edit source]
Based on system messages[edit | edit source]
- imported with language switcher template
- needs to be checked for {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}
{{int:message name}}[edit | edit source]
- Translates the interface message into the user language
- {{int:lang}}
Add or switch content[edit | edit source]
- Switch the entire page content
- Show additional content
Support templates/forms[edit | edit source]
Switch labels
Category system[edit | edit source]
Further considerations[edit | edit source]
- Ad-hoc on-page translation (DeepL) -> duplicate page to make translation permanent
- Improvements to sidebar regarding language support
- MediaWiki translation extension
Documentation[edit | edit source]
Helpdesk EN: Multilingual wiki
