WikiTranslation

For Translators

Page with a translation must bear the name of original English page, plus languages abbreviation (two-letter language code) preceded by a '.', e.g. for About, page in Russian will be About.ru.

Advantages:

• Titles are in one language, which is good for referencing and keeping wiki documentation in order.
• It also provides a clear mapping between original and translated pages.
• It is easy to implement.

What functionality I expect from Multilanguage Extension

• All pages named as described above.
• There must be a list of available translations for current page on top of each page. Let's call it "Page languages list". (Extension detects if page with each language code exists).
• There is a field in the user preferences, called "Language" (Already exists in MediaWiki)
• Navigation improvements:
  • Let's say user have Language field in preferences set to 'tr'. Then:
    • if user requests page Main Page, and page Main Page.tr exists, he automatically redirected to Main Page.tr.
    • if user clicks some other language in "Page languages list", then his "Language" field in preferences sets to that language, and he continues browsing, according to previous rules.
• It would be nice to have Language field set up according the browser settings automatically for new users and guests.

Useful Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

Possible Solutions

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultiLanguageManager
• http://www.art122-5.net/index.php/MediaWiki_Multi-language
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Internationalization_extensions