Forum:Multi-Language Wikia...How to?

I am setting up a new wikia and was wondering what the best way to handle multilanguage support? I have researched this already on my own and so far i think this is the best way (please tell me if i'm wrong):


 * 1 wiki
 * Seperate language pages for each page in the wiki
 * Some kind of template element at the bottom providing links to the other language versions of whatever page you are on. (is there a pre-built template like this? What would be really nice is if it auto-populates the links).

So for example:

You have the page: Page1 in English.

At the bottom of Page1 you have a template that says "View this page in: English | French | German | Italian | Turkish"

Those would link to Page1, Page1_FR, Page1_DE, Page1_IT, Page1_TR respectively. Ideally the template could just be added within the page edit as a custom template or something and would dynamically take Pagename and add _Language code on its own so I dont have to manually do it for each page.

The other way I see would be to create entire seperate wikias for each language. But is that overkill? ie. MyWiki.wikia.com, MyWiki_DE.wikia.com, MyWiki_FR.wikia.com etc.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. I have already searched the forums as well and have not found what I am looking for on this subject yet. Wooga ml 14:08, March 16, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!

If I'm not wrong you can pick language for your wiki when you create one. A French wiki would result in fr.mywiki.wikia.com, English wiki's don't have a prefix en though. -- Light Daxter - User - Talk 13:53, March 16, 2010 (UTC)

So it is better to create an entirely seperate wiki with the same exact name but select a different language? Then just link to that wiki, or a page on that wiki? Wooga ml 14:08, March 16, 2010 (UTC)