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)


 * In most cases, this is better. Then you can use Interlanguage links to link them all up on each article. Some wikis have tried true multilingual support though. The 888th Avatar   (talk)  23:17, March 16, 2010 (UTC)