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. -- Maytham
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