Forum:Multi-Language wiki

Howdy, there, people! It has been a long time, and I got a question for you that I will bet that someone has ask this before: How to make a multi-language wiki? I want my wiki to be more diverse and offer languages option for every page. Language option is Portuguese and Spanish. I know that you want me to go to that section on Support and requests, but I look there and the communication looks complex, so is anyone willing to help out? Thanks! Anakin Skyobiliviator ( talk ) 22:59, August 1, 2012 (UTC)

In short, I just want a Portuguese and Spanish option on my wiki. Anakin Skyobiliviator ( talk ) 06:59, August 2, 2012 (UTC)


 * First you must create another wiki under the new language (one for Portuguese and one for Spanish). Then go to Community Central:Interlanguage link requests and request that the wikis be linked (English <---> Portuguese, English <---> Spanish, Portuguese <---> Spanish). Once they are linked you can link the pages on different languages by filling out and adding this code to the pages on all wikis for each language the page is in. language code:page title


 * So you mean, one translation can be different from another, like when you edit the English part, you also have to edit the other languages too? And when you create a page in the English section, you have to create the same for the other languages also? And how do you exactly transfer all the pages of a wiki (this one has been on for a while) into another wiki with another language in the shortest amount of time? Sound like a long process...Anakin Skyobiliviator ( talk ) 05:49, August 3, 2012 (UTC)


 * The way it's typically done on Wikia is there is no "multi-language wiki". Instead, you have 1 wiki per language. So there would be an english wiki, say tardis.wikia.com, and then there would be a completely separate wiki at fr.tardis.wikia.com for the French version of it. These separate language wikis typically have completely different communities and completely different administrators, etc. Then, pages on these separate language wikis are linked together with Interlanguage links (you have to put in a request at Community Central:Interlanguage link requests to enable this feature).


 * That's typically how the process works. It is a very long process if you're going to be doing the translating yourself, as you have to create a new wiki for the new language, create new pages on that wiki and start building a new community, set up interlanguage links, etc. There is no "fast" way about it. I suppose if you were lazy, you could use Google Translator or some other web service to translate the pages for you, and then copy/paste the shoddy machine translation onto the other wiki... that would be really fast to do :P.