Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-30866120-20180409202645

Yo!

My friends and myself are having a hot discussion going on over at our wiki, where we are talking about making new language versions of the wiki.

We have English content, but we have some articles, that we translated to German and Japanese and now we are planning to make German and Japanese wikis for the community.

There's only a few things, that worry me.

My friend, who is the wiki founder, told me, that she made the experience, that templates have different names in other languages, AKA you can't just copy them over to the new wiki and expect them to work.

Also, we don't know, if the wiki backend and buttons will be in the other language, when we make the wikis. So, that the German wiki has a German backend and German text on the buttons, for example.

We want the backend and buttons to be in English and able to reuse our templates, because our wiki is very large and not all of my friends speak the other languages very well, but they want to help us with maintenance stuff nonetheless.

So, I wonder... Should we chose an English community when we make the wikis (cause of the templates and text, etc.), or can we choose German or Japanese and change the language for the backend and buttons afterwards?

That's the first time, my friends and myself would be doing something like this, so I have no idea.

Thanks for your replies in advance. 