Forum:How can i make a multi-language wiki?

Hey, a guy asked me if it's possible have multiple languages on my languages. He'll translate if it is.

What do you guys tell me? Is it possible to have a multi-language wiki?

Cya Blitztanis 20:45, August 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * It's possible, but probably better to have them on separate wikis and link between, as therefore the different langaguges will have a different Recent Changes page, and you can have a different language skin for each language you want. See Help:Interlanguage_links for info on this. If you really want to have 2 languages on the same wiki, I'd contact staff, and ask them to set up another namespace for the language (so articles about something in German would be in a different namespace than articles in English, for example). I'd strongly recommend you don't have multiple languages on the same wiki, however. -- Random Time  20:51, August 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * The editors and admins of a wiki decide these things. Wikia is in many languages, and has a worldwide user, editor, and reader base. On the wiki where I am an admin I am happy when people edit. So I try not to get in their way. For example; English and Spanish are both used on these pages:
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Lima,_Peru
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Mexico_City,_Mexico


 * If people want to start their own wiki in a separate language that is OK too. It may be a lot more work than they realize though. --Timeshifter (talk) 19:48, August 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * As said above, it is recommended that languages are kept to separate wikis, and that the wikis are interlinked. This has the advantage of namespaces being in the correct language for the user (e.g. Talk, Template, MediaWiki are in their local equivalents).

Wikia sites that are multilingual

 * Familypedia (the Genealogy Wiki) has articles (including "welcome" pages) in different languages and organized ways of linking them. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 11:15, August 13, 2010 (UTC)