[dokuwiki] Re: Content Multiple Language Support

Hi,

On 8/27/05, Andreas Gohr <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:05:07 -0400
> Robin Getz <rgetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > If a well written patch was available, would you:
> >   - review it/include it in the next release?
> 
> Yes i would certainly have a look on it and if like it it gets in.
> However we should think about how this should be done correctly.
> 
> Deciding on how to save language specific stuff is one thing (I guess
> I'd prefer data/pages/en/dog.txt format) but how would this be
> integrated?

I'm on this. Still in "thinking stage", but I think I'll produce
something this weekend (okay, maybe next week).

> 
> - How to link?
> - If I'm in the 'de' namespace and the german page doesn't exist would
>   the link go to the 'en' namespace?

I think so. Maybe some text like "There's no such page in your
language, create one!" could be printed.

> - How to handle different pagenames itself?
>   Eg. how to know en:namespace is the same as de:namensraum ?
> - How do other Wiki's handle it?
>   I think mediawiki has a special syntax to define other languages for
>   the same page? Mayb this could be done through a plugin...

Mediawiki uses language:article_name_in_that_language syntax. For
example, take a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pencil&action=edit bottom. I
think that's pretty cool idea, but what if translator forgets about
linking to his newly translated article?

Maybe we could use "base language" names, like en/pencil.txt,
de/pencil.txt and so on. Only title (header) would change. I think
that's better than a big relation database...

> 
> You see I'm reluctant to say yes I will add a patch when I get one until
> I know how this should be done.
> 
> Andi
> 
> 
> 


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