better handling of alternate languages in wiki

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: w^3 <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: better handling of alternate languages in wiki
Date: 2009-03-16 00:25:51
Message-ID: 20090316002551.GA3823@alvh.no-ip.org
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-www

Hi,

So, with help from Stefan and the great guys at #wikimedia we now have
the neat-looking links to FAQs in other languages, in the english FAQ
and also in each translated FAQ. And it's updated automatically
whenever someone adds another translation as a subpage (so wiki/FAQ/fr
for the french translation, for example).

Therefore I propose we use the Mediawiki multilanguage stuff for
handling content in languages other than english. This is very easy --
we just need to add {{Languages}} to the top of each translated page,
and put them in a subpage. So for example the spanish initial page
should be wiki/Main_Page/es (in fact I already did that, and now
wiki/Español is a redirect to that one).

So, for a start this means that the main page needs to have a
{{Languages}} inserted at the top; and the "Alternate Languages"
subsection should probably be removed.

Can I get some opinions on this?

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

Responses

Browse pgsql-www by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Alvaro Herrera 2009-03-16 00:29:37 Re: Handling #if in MediaWiki possible?
Previous Message Cédric Villemain 2009-03-15 22:51:52 Re: Audio & Video?