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On 06/13/2010 08:46 PM, Ian Weller wrote:

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 06:59:12PM -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:

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In Wikipedia, there is a separate installation for every language. I don't think that's the road that we'd want to go down, and I thought that a scheme had been devised, though I can't for the life of me remember what it was.

We tried setting up something that would do it this way and I think the amount of maintenance required is too high. I need to decide on something (finally) so we're going to go with how meta.wikimedia.org handles translations.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Interlanguage_links

It works for wikis that don't have the absolute need for keeping languages on totally separate instances. It's just as much editing work. The only disadvantage is that page names aren't in the native language.

If this is a problem with anybody on the *infrastructure* side of things, please speak now. I'll be talking to the translators list soon.

Ian, This sounds like a really good plan. There isn't any additional instance of MW that needs to be maintained and pages can move around without needing to move a bunch of translations as well.

My only thought is how does someone know that the page has been translated into their language? Is there an addon of sorts that can somehow make this notification better?

- --Eric