Wiki translation

[Maarten]

I think we should use very strict naming conventions for the article pages, like this:

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Rabbit
Rabbit/de
Rabbit/fr

instead of

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Rabbit
Kanin
Lapin

I believe this also allows for better automated linking and such.

The TF2-wiki mentions that there is a tag for overriding a page title.

Use {{DISPLAYTITLE:abcxyz}} to show a translated title.
For example: {{DISPLAYTITLE:Flammenwerfer}} would show the title "Flammenwerfer" while keeping the real article title as "Flamethrower/de".
The display title can also be set by the infobox (see below).

But I'm not yet sure whether that's a standard MediaWiki functionality.

[LFist]

Okay, let's do it this way.

And FYI: this isn't a standard functionality, but I think we can use my page linking badges as mentioned before to link the pages and make a multilanguage wiki.

I've changed all existing pages, so we can start translating English pages in different languages.

[Touriste]

Is it possible to have the same language access that the one of wikipedia, choosing the language by the side and then every pages will be /fr /de /pt ?

[LFist]

No, this isn't possible, because this way would need one MediaWiki installation and one MySQL database PER language as mentioned before.

[Touriste]

I see, so we can maybe customize every foreign pages with a "return to main page" in the language needed

[LFist]

I've added badges to make this possible. I posted it on Reus:Translation page too:

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German: {{GerTransAvail|NAME_OF_TRANSLATED_PAGE|SHOWN_NAME_OF_TRANSLATED_PAGE}}
English: {{EngTransAvail|NAME_OF_TRANSLATED_PAGE|SHOWN_NAME_OF_TRANSLATED_PAGE}}
French: {{FreTransAvail|NAME_OF_TRANSLATED_PAGE|SHOWN_NAME_OF_TRANSLATED_PAGE}}
Portuguese: {{PorTransAvail|NAME_OF_TRANSLATED_PAGE|SHOWN_NAME_OF_TRANSLATED_PAGE}}

For example you create Projects/fr.
There you add {{EngTransAvail|Projects|Projects}} and {{GerTransAvail|Projects/de|Projekte}}

It's NAME OF TEMPLATE/NAME OF PAGE WITHIN THE WIKI/NAME ACTUALLY SHOWN ON PAGE

[Touriste]

Thanks :)

[Maarten]

Nice job!

[Touriste]

Maybe we can add it at the end of every pages because it messes up with images sometimes (in biomes for example)
If you can create a "go to bottom of page" as an arrow pointing toward the bottom of the page
And I was thinking about badges like that :

New badge (?)

[LFist]

This is possible, but I think it would be really annoying to scroll down every time you want to use the links.
Additionally badges on top of a page are far more obvious.