Mediawiki implements interlanguage links quite nicely. Some sort of similar system would be nice for MoinMoin.
Since Ubuntu use MoinMoin and not mediawiki, i've been having a problem with the translation( in french in my case). I would like to help translate the page in the Ubuntu MoinMoin wiki but there is no easy way to links similar page(but different language) together.
I think the way mediawiki do it is the perfect way. Something like this would certainly be useful to everyone who has to work with more than one language like here in Quebec, Canada. We need to have a French and an English version of each page. Having two separate wiki is one thing, but if each page are not interlinked together it can be very confusing. Especially for the translator.
Always keeping a link to switch the language is important(in case of a new version in english but still an old version in french). There should also be a way to tell if the translation is outdated compared to the original document, and then refer the user back to the original page.
i dont know if this is clear enough so here is how mediawiki do it:
There is a demonstration of interlanguage linking here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Interlanguage_link_demo
- Please note the "in other language" box at the left. In the edit page you can see the simplicity of it.
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I think there's noone keeping you from using interwiki links like fr:CettePageEnFrancais (?) - you just have to define some interwiki map entries for en, fr, de,.... - there is no functionality yet to extract that stuff from the page and put it into some side bar, though.
FlorianFesti already put some effort into the MultiLang feature, but it isn't available in main branch yet (and the problem is a bit more difficult than it seems at first glance).
We also would like to have an "uptodate" indicator for derived pages (for the MoinMaster pages), but it isn't implemented yet.
If you have very concrete implementation ideas, feel welcome to write them down here.
-- ThomasWaldmann 2005-06-26 10:29:36
See also Creating multilingual wikis and wiki engines for an investigation of how to make moinmoin multilingual.
-- AntoniosChristofides 2005-08-24 21:07:34
See also the FeatureRequests/ThisPageInOtherLanguages that implements a box similar to MediaWiki's. -- TheAnarcat 2006-01-21 23:34:42