Forum:How would one go about separating all content by language and sub-language sections?

This may have been answered already, but I didn't see any via a search, and I'm pretty new to Wikia. Apologies if I missed it!

I'm attempting to make a wiki which is highly dependent on language and culture. As such, I'll need to separate pages by language (english, spanish, japanese, etc) and by culture (American, British, Central American, Spaniard, etc). Some things will cross over between cultures, some will not, though languages are "hard" separations and will not share content, though there may be portions of other languages on any page (word origins, names, and the like).

I could accomplish this via namespaces, as there's essentially a small finite set of the major combinations. But I'd really rather have something which allows "strong" navigation by culture and / or language (ie, not showing non-relevant pages at all) and makes comparing pages relatively easy if desired (as other cultures will interpret / explain the same thing differently). As I'd prefer to not have to re-do a lot of work in the future, is there a "best" way of going about this? Or some suggestions? The wikia help:languages page isn't loading (template error), and I can't find anything from a bit of looking around.

Groxx 23:07, June 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds like you want to maintain separate wikis for each language. Is that what you are looking for? -- 23:51, June 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * Almost, but that's more extreme than I need, and would prevent people from moving between related topics. And what would be done for all the English topics which are shared between American and British (and others)? Duplication? Groxx 03:01, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * You can link between different wikis. -- 03:10, June 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * Like on Wikipedia, on Wikia, we just have to put english name,  french name,  german name or any other language code...
 * On the official Blender wiki, they use language code in the name of their pages. But, even on Wikia, i think there is some wikis wich prefer to adress all languages locally.
 * If you really want to separate content, for any reason, using customs namespaces is generally the way to go. — TulipVorlax 04:14, June 13, 2010 (UTC)