I want to have a wiki in (say) English and French . Does that mean I have
to have 2 copies of the wiki software?!?
When I define, on my (shared hosting) host, I get by default a seperate
directory for each sub-domain, e.g.
en.mysite.com => /home/www/en.mysite.com
fr.mysite.com => /home/www/fr.mysite.com
I suppose therefore all I have to then do is install a version of the wiki
software in each of these subdirectories, define an entry in the interwiki
link table which says that a link like [[fr:My French Page]] is really a
link to [[
http://fr.mysite.com]], and bingo, the new wiki code in each
directory will deal with it.
BUT, if I have 50 languages, I don't really want 50 copies of the wiki
software! Or is this the way I need to do it? I can imagine setting up a
single generic language version, such as:
generic.mysite.com => /home/www/generic.mysite.com
but then all my links go to that version, such that [[en:My English Page]]
becomes a link to [[
http://generic.mysite.com]] and [[fr:My French Page]]
becomes a link to [[
http://generic.mysite.com]] and I have lost the language
information that "My English Page" is "en" and "My French
Page" is "fr".
I hope I have explained clearly enough. Thanks for any pointers.