On Sunday 29 November 2009 22:49:11 Platonides wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > As our wiki grows I become more aware that any major re-organisation > > needs doing now, before it becomes impossible. With that in mind I've > > taken the first steps in categorizing the pages. I've been looking at > > extensions that provide navigation aids, and see that category pages are > > essential to most of those. That brings up this very thorny question of > > language pages. > > > > Unless something is done about it, the Welcome page could have 20 or more > > entries on its category page, depending on how active our translators > > have been. This clearly gets to the point where the page is unreadable. > > > > It has been said to me that we should be using namespaces for languages, > > and that doing that would mean that in a search, for example, only pages > > in your system language would be returned. I've only just started > > reading the documentation, but I get the impression that this is not so. > > It is not how they are commonly used. But nothing prevents you to do so. > Namespaces partition the content. It is usually done on its type (eg. > encyclopedic articles vs information about wikipedia like electing an > admin) but it could be by language just as well. > > A common choice is to use subpages with language codes to separate the > language, or use a different wiki for each language and link them with > interwikis. > There _should_ be some more in depth explanation at www.mediawiki.org > but I don't see it to give you the link. > Thanks. One advantage of having the sandbox is that I can experiment, so I'm open to all suggestions. I'm convinced that there must be a better way of doing things than we have at the moment, so I'll go on exploring :-)
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