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NIWA Community => The Lounge => Topic started by: SoujiroElric on November 19, 2010, 06:03:31 AM

Title: A language issue
Post by: SoujiroElric on November 19, 2010, 06:03:31 AM
Hello everybody. I'm having a big dilemma right now. Medapedia is going to be a bilingual wiki, this means, in english and spanish. However, I need to deal with the search system. I have a multilanguage manager that shows a "language" tab on every article, letting the user search for a translation. This is not enough as it needs extra clicks. I want to use Polyglot for automatic redirects depending on the user's browser language (yet they can visit the other article using the tab). But...

-What about articles with different names in spanish? Say, Medarotch and Medarreloj? (Both referencing the same thing)
-What about other kinds of searches, like Parts names? (Revolver, one of Metabee's arms)

What are your suggestions regarding languages? Thank you beforehand!
Title: Re: A language issue
Post by: Tucayo on November 21, 2010, 03:28:41 AM
It would be diffiuclt to have them on the same URL, I think you should set a sub-domain
Title: Re: A language issue
Post by: tacopill on November 21, 2010, 03:37:54 AM
i think he decided to do both languages in one wiki instance before starting this thread.
Title: Re: A language issue
Post by: SoujiroElric on November 21, 2010, 05:00:23 AM
That's correct. I could set a sub-domain but not a new wiki because of the restrictions of my web host.