Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-26830780-20170421175151/@comment-31054681-20170422214408

Andrewds1021 wrote: As you already said, attempting to integrate such a feature would essentially be like trying to reinvent Google Translate; something Wikia probably has no desire to do for several reasons. Even if they did, it would most likely also significantly increase server load because each time a page is loaded, the server would need to detect the viewer's language and translate the page content. This also means that the server would either not be able to cache the page effectively or have to cache all versions of the page. The latter would not be much different from the current solution of having separate pages, as far as the server is concerned. Yeah, exactly. But another suggestion could be that, like I said, we could create wikis in different languages but keep the theme/style the same. So yeah it would link to a separate wiki, but the design and theme would be the same, but the language would just be different, if you get what I mean. Basically, what I mean is that the wiki could basically allow to make  a copy of the wikia but the people would just have to change the language and nothing else. That would be really effective because then you don't have to start scratch on the design and it would avoid heavy work. All the content would already be there but you just have the heavy work of changing the language.