[dokuwiki] Re: Multilanguage content with DW
- From: Guy Brand <gb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:06:45 +0100
On 16 January at 21:53, Raymond Scholz wrote:
> I'm looking for a DW multilanguage (content and interface) enhancement
Same here.
> 1. Document structure (i.e. page IDs) for all languages should be the
> same. Given a german/english site, the page ID "actors:john_doe"
> should not be named "schauspieler:john_doe" in German. Since I use
> $conf['useheading'] = 1 the resulting pages titles will look fine
> anyway.
Agreed. I think we should rely on dedicated namespaces for trans-
lated contents e.g. en:page, fr:page, de:page with invariant page
names. Andreas wrote in a mail in december that interwiki linking
between such dedicated namespaces would be easy to add to DW. I
imagine this as a kind of "This page is also available in ..."
menu/item/buttons or even just small flags that could appear on a
page if its content embeeds a special "tag" and maybe honoring a
sticky lang=xx session variables read from browser lang prefs or
selected by the user.
The problem with relying only on browser pref is when a user wants
to switch to a different language (of the one specified in the prefs
of his browser, badly or by default) and stick to this language. If
a "flag/menu" allows him to enter a dedicated namespace for the lang
he has chosen that's better. But there must also be a way to stick
to this namespace even if a link in a wiki page points to an
absolute path (:index) which could bring him back to the default
language (the one of the root namespace) interface/page content.
> 2. Media content should be common to all languages.
With dedicated language namespaces this is also possible with
en:screenshots:image1.png, fr:screenshots:images1.png, etc.
> 3. URIs should be google-friendly, that is: clean and able to being
> spidered without the use of cookies.
>
> http://server/en/actors/john_doe but not
> http://server/actors/john_doe?lang=en
Maybe both should work: IIRC specifying a language in URL is
recommended for accessibility.
I haven't tried Linas's patch, but trying to get it from the URL of
his message[1] fails.
[1] http://shirshegsm.lt.eu.org/dl/other/dokuwiki_httplang.patch
bug
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