User:Margit.link-rodrigue/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

The display title sets a page title that is different from the page name.

It becomes the preferred page label used in many automatically generated page lists. It can be changed with the visual editor (Options > Advanced settings). The source of the wiki page shows the magic word {{DISPLAYTITLE:My display title}}.