9 - Multilingual website

Submitted by gerdami

This package helps creating a multilingual website based on wikidot categories, i.e. each language is a category, includes and _templates.

The main principle is that all language pages share the same pagename, i.e. fr:pagename, en:pagename, es:pagename, etc. to help switching from a language version to another. "xy" is the generic term for any language iso code. The number of languages is only limited by the number of flags to display on screen.

The attached files come from the backup facility with category separator ":" replaced by "_" and ":_" by a double underscore "__". They also contain comments for implementation.

Pages

• start.txt

_template

• _template.txt

en:

• en__template.txt
• en_page-tags.txt
• en_sitemap.txt
• en_start.txt

es:

• es__template.txt
• es_page-tags.txt
• es_sitemap.txt
• es_start.txt

fr:

• fr__template.txt
• fr_page-tags.txt
• fr_sitemap.txt
• fr_start.txt

include:

• include_language-flags.txt
• include_newpage.txt
• include_page-tags.txt
• include_pagetree.txt
• include_previous-next.txt
• include_tagcloud.txt

nav:

• nav_side.txt
• nav_side-en.txt
• nav_side-es.txt
• nav_side-fr.txt
• nav_top.txt

search:

• search__template.txt
• search_site.txt

system:

• system__template.txt
• system_page-tags.txt

Zip

The whole stuff, just in case it was possible to upload all at once…

• package-9.zip

Real life example

• gerdami-multilingual.wikidot.com, a demo website
• handbook.wikidot.com, a real life example on which this package was based

How to use

• Install the package page to your site.

• Each language category has its own left sidebar nav:side-xy with a language dependant sitemap, a language dependant tagcloud and a newpage button to create a page in the current language, with parent equal to the language start page.
• Each language category has its own xy:_template and a newpage button to create a page in the current language, with parent equal to the current page. However, it is not ensured that an English page and a French page would share the same parent in the different language versions.
• Each language category has its own tagcloud and its own landing page xy:page-tags while the default system:page-tags has been adapted to the same layout.
• To add a new xy language, there is some housekeeping to do:
  • Add a new xy:start page
  • Edit include:language-flags and add a new language flag and why not a flag not hosted on the handbook…
  • Clone the nav:side-en to the new nav:side-xy and change all en occurences to xy
  • Clone the en:page-tags to the new xy:page-tags and change all en occurences to xy
• The search:site page has been modified to use Google Custom Element.

Pieter, please check proof this stuff...

gerdami 05 Jul 2009 10:51

… by adding NL, for example.
Good luck.

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Re: Pieter, please check proof this stuff...

pieterh 10 Jul 2009 15:38

Gerdami, it looks good, but I don't have the bandwidth to translate this into Dutch (and I'm actually not a native Dutch speaker so the results would be bizarre anyhow. Antwerps/Belgian/Brussels combo… :-)

Great work, I'm looking forward to trying it out.

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Re: Pieter, please check proof this stuff...

gerdami 17 Jul 2009 11:49

Pieter,
1. I thought that you were Flemish..
2. If you look at the 4 files to clone, only the create button has to be translated.
However, the main problem with Wikidot is that it is too english-verbose, e.g. the search module: "pages and forum pages only forum only". The code source still contains hard-coded English messages that should be stored in localized configuration files.

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Re: Pieter, please check proof this stuff...

pieterh 18 Jul 2009 09:36

@gerdami, I'm part Flemish but grew up in the UK.

As you say, Wikidot needs to be translateable. This is a project we've started working on, lower priority than other issues, but important anyhow.

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German

avokado 31 Jul 2009 20:12

Everything for German

de__template.txt
%%content%%
----
[[include include:previous-next | category=%%category%%]]
[[include include:newpage language=%%category%% | parent=%%full_page_name%% | button=Unterseite hinzufügen]]
[[include include:language-flags pagename=%%page_name%%]]

de_page-tags.txt
[[include include:page-tags language=de]]

de_sitemap.txt
[[include include:pagetree depth=9 | language=de]]

de_start.txt
Das ist die deutsche Startseite.

for include:language-flags
[[image http://handbook.wikidot.com/local--files/include:language-flags/de.gif link="de:{$pagename}" style="border:1px solid black"]]

nav_side-de.txt
++ Sitemap
[[include include:pagetree depth=1 | language=de]]
++ Tags
[[include include:tagcloud language=de]]
++ Neue Seite
[[include include:newpage button=Seite hinzufügen | language=de | parent=de:start]]
= [[size 80%]][[[nav:side-de|nav:side-de]]][[/size]]

[!-- 
Manual operation in the Site Manager is needed to set nav:side-xy to xy: pages
--]

Re: German

gerdami 31 Jul 2009 20:29

Thanks avokado.
Not that difficult…

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Last edited on 31 Jul 2009 20:29 by gerdami Show more

Install the package?

VastOne 06 Oct 2010 23:08

What exactly do you mean by install the package?

Is there a process for this or is it renaming these text files to a proper system name?

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Re: Install the package?

leiger 07 Oct 2010 01:07

I think you are meant to use the one linked in the side-bar.

i.e. http://installer.wikidot.com/ (then click on "v3.0 Beta" in the menu)

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Alles in Afrikaans !!! ;-)

Peter-ZA 09 Sep 2011 13:14

af__template.txt
%%content%%
----
[[include include:previous-next | category=%%category%%]]
[[include include:newpage language=%%category%% | parent=%%full_page_name%% | button=Voeg onderbladsy by]]
[[include include:language-flags pagename=%%page_name%%]]

af_page-tags.txt
[[include include:page-tags language=af]]

af_sitemap.txt
[[include include:pagetree depth=9 | language=af]]

af_start.txt
Dit is die Afrikaanse begin bladsy.

for include:language-flags
[[image http://handbook.wikidot.com/local--files/include:language-flags/af.gif link="af:{$pagename}" style="border:1px solid black"]]

nav_side-af.txt
++ Sitemap
[[include include:pagetree depth=1 | language=af]]
++ Tags
[[include include:tagcloud language=af]]
++ Nuwe bladsy
[[include include:newpage button=Voeg 'n bladsy by | language=af | parent=af:start]]
= [[size 80%]][[[nav:side-de|nav:side-de]]][[/size]]

[!-- 
Manual operation in the Site Manager is needed to set nav:side-xy to xy: pages
--]

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Peter-ZA

Last edited on 09 Sep 2011 13:15 by Peter-ZA Show more

Flag Problem!! - since South Africa has 11 official languages

Peter-ZA 09 Sep 2011 13:20

What should we do with the flags for 11 languages ???

I would suggest to make that flexible … .
I like to use the old 4-Kleur, even though it may not be liked by many people, but is is distinct for the Afrikaans language, unlike the current or old South African flag, which will have to cater for all 11 languages !!!

1. za:en = English English_language
2. za:af = Afrikaans Afrikaans_language
3. za:nr = South Ndebele Southern_Ndebele_language
4. za:?? = North Sotho (Pedi / Sepedi) North_sotho
5. za:st = South Sotho (Sesotho) Swazi_language
6. za:ss = Swazi (SiSwati) Swazi_language
7. za:vi = Tswana / Setswana (Tiếng Việt) Tswana_language
8. za:ts = Tsonga (Xitsonga) Tsonga_language
9. za:ve = Venda (Tshivenda) Venda
10. za:xh = Xhosa (isiXhosa) Xhosa_language
11. za:zu = Zulu (isiZulu) Zulu_language

Also see Wikipedia

Any suggestions?

Kind regards
Peter

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Last edited on 09 Sep 2011 13:50 by Peter-ZA Show more

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