Lunch talk: Multilingual wiki
Supporting a multilingual wiki
"Smart" language switchers
Language support
options to define which languages are used in the wiki
Switching pages
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
