Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-1807002-20151120021458/@comment-15636815-20151120175501

I am an admin on TrainStation Wiki. We currently have companion wikis in German and Dutch, and we're in the process of adding one in Danish.

When we were getting things configured initially, I spoke extensively with the founder of the Wikia Language Brigade, which SethFu linked above. She told me that the multiple-languages-on-one-site approach that they use is VERY difficult to maintain, and the only reason they do it is because of the nature of their site. The approach using multiple sites with one language each is preferred by far, for reasons already discussed here.

As SethFu suggested, you first want your French counterpart to create. Then you want to go to Interlanguage link requests to get the two sites connected so you can use interlanguage links. After that, the admin on the FR site (or you, if you can link to a conversation with the FR admin in which you discussed it) must write to Special:Contact and request to connect the FR site to the Shared Image Repository on the EN site. If you later get more sites in other languages connected to you, you can connect all of them to your S.I.R. That allows the FR site, for example, to use a normal, which will pull the image directly from the EN site, unless the FR site has uploaded an image with the same name to the FR site.

I'm slowly becoming a quasi-expert on the interlanguage stuff, and I'm a Wikia Language Brigadier, so if you have questions, please ask! :-)