[wp-docs] Linking to other languages on each page

[bono]

Thanks, Jennifer, Xavier!

"Interlanguage Links" is the basic function of MediaWiki.
We can use this function, simply doing below.

1. Add data[1] to interwiki table of English Codex database.
2. Add languageBox to Codex skin file, if it's not already available.
3. Start adding links to each page.

But French Codex will need to change the format of existing internal
links, from [[fr:Page name]] to [[:fr:Page name]]. [2]
You could add a colon to each link on wiki by hand, or export French
pages[3], run a search & replace, then import.

[1]: e.g. http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Bono/Links_to_other_languages#.E5.90.84.E8.A8.80.E8.AA.9E.E7.89.88_Codex
[2]: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interwiki/fr#Liens_interwiki_vers_d.27autres_langues
[3]: http://codex.wordpress.org/Special:Export

--bono


On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:00:18 +0100
Xavier Borderie <xavier at borderie.net> wrote:
> Being a user of the french Codex, I asked the same question long ago
> (or rather, "can we have inter-language links in the manner of
> wikipedia?"), and I remember the answer being "no can do, because of
> the way the codex is currently setup".
> Hopefully this can now be done...
> 
> -x.
> 
> 
> 2009/3/18 Jennifer Hodgdon <yahgrp at poplarware.com>:
> > +1 on this idea.
> >
> > Isn't there an official place for other-language Codex documentation? If
> > not, maybe there should be?
> >
> >   --Jennifer