Re: better handling of alternate languages in wiki

From: Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(at)dalibo(dot)com>
To: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, w^3 <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: better handling of alternate languages in wiki
Date: 2009-03-16 10:39:27
Message-ID: 49BE2C5F.8010606@dalibo.com
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Guillaume Lelarge a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Alvaro Herrera a écrit :
>> [...]
>> 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).
>>
>
> I find this really interesting.
>
>> 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;
>
> I would prefer to see a box on the left, as wikipedia does.
>
>> and the "Alternate Languages"
>> subsection should probably be removed.
>>
>
> No. For example, in the french section, there are articles available
> only in French. I don't want to lose them. Where will I put them if the
> "alternate languages" subsection disappears?
>

perhaps in the postgresql.fr website, and if the english version become avaible
then move it to the wiki.postgresql.org ?

I don't like see more things in french than in english in a website which is
primary english.

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