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Re: Info request on new Wiki translations - any automatic handling of translation headers and translated pages?



On Fri, 2025-08-08 at 12:15 +0200, Beatrice Torracca wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> sorry if this is been discussed elsewhere. I gave a look at the new test 
> wiki at wiki2025.debian.org and I wasn't able to find a dummy translated 
> page to have an idea.
> 
> Is there a more "automatic" way in which translations will be handled by 
> the new wiki. Especially considering that, in the current one, the 
> translation header at the top has to be maintained manually both for the 
> English master page and the translations (though for that we created the 
> work around of including the header from the master page). I think there 
> is, if I look at Wikipedia for instance.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate
Not installed yet but we plan to set this up.

> What about links inside a page, would there be an automated way to 
> create links to translated pages.
> What I mean is, right now when there is a (interwiki)link in a page, a 
> translator (at least me, I hope I was not missing some obvious feature) 
> has to check if there is a translated page for that link and point the 
> link there or otherwise point to the English page. Will there be an 
> automated way in which the Wiki knows if there is a translated version 
> of a page and points there if there is, or automatically defaults to 
> English if there is not?

I believe the current solution that is used on all the other wikis is
prefixing every URL with "/Special:MyLanguage/". Most of the time, this
is hidden away behind a template that adds the prefix for you.

[...]
> Minor thing, is there a function to subscribe to a page so as to be 
> notified of changes?

I'm assuming you're asking about MediaWiki; Once you are logged in,
there is a star button that will add the current page to your watchlist.

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Maytham

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