Talk:Languages
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[edit] Discussion from community portal
Is the Central wikicity multilingual? I've seen only the main page translated in japaneese. Maybe it is good idea to translate some of the pages here in many languases to help all the users and possible wikicitizens who understand english with difficulties. I think that this will help the community to grow.—DCLXVI 13:33, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Personally I think that would be great, but I'm not good enough in any languages other than English (and sometimes not even there) to make sensible contributions. We'd need someone who was willing to do the translation of key pages and either a very committed person, or enough people with skills in that language to keep the page(s) up-to-date.
We also have the user language templates to help identify the degrees of comfort that users have with different languages.—CocoaZen 01:01, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I suppose, that is not so hard for the creators of non-english wikicities to translate some pages here in their language. I can translate them in bulgarian and french. If the main wikicity is really multilingual. —DCLXVI 14:10, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I can help with Spanish or Portuguese, though I don't yet recall seeing wikis here in those languages.—PhilipR 14:21, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I can also help with Simplified Chinese. It seems Danielwang has begun the Traditional Chinese (首頁(國語/Mandarin)).—upssdr talk 07:56, 2 Jul 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Chinese language pack
I tested with switching the interface language to zh-cn and zh-tw. On zh-cn (Chinese Simplified), the title reads "Wikipedia" instead of "Wikicities", whereas on zh-tw (Chinese Traditional), the title reads the same except in Chinese. This may be a bug with the language packs (I recall wiki.moztw.org has the same problem before). I tested the Japanese language and it has no problem.
Also, the interface languages for zh-cn and zh-tw are identical except for the writing system. I suppose this is for consistancy in Wikipedia. However, the localized terms are predominately those used in Mainland China, and they are sometimes difficult to understand. Can we use the language pack used in wiki.moztw.org for zh-tw? I'm starting to write Help files for moztw.org and Wikicities, and this will make my life easier. I will ask piap of moztw.org to release the language pack.—Danielwang 13:28, 16 Jul 2005 (UTC)
Another problem: MediaWiki:Monobook.css is different on non-English interfaces, so Babels don't look right. Who knows how to fix this?—Danielwang 13:39, 16 Jul 2005 (UTC)
[edit] How to request language sub-domain
How to request a language sub-domain for some wikicities? I want to request some, but don't know how.
BTW: It will be good, if the method is also included in this page. --Ans 05:08, 31 Aug 2005 (UTC)
A pretty asked question, I suppose. How do I specify that multi language subdomains thing on the request form?? --Coldplayer 22:06, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
- You would indicate if the user selects a language, an automatic language subdomain is added to the proposed Wikia (i.e. if the proposed Wikia is in Spanish, and es.* prefix is added to the Wikia webaddress.
- The user could also mark a box to say s/he is going to use the english language Chart (this is, the Description of wiki) of the main domain (then the Chart is automagically included in If s/he want propose another Chart, must write it. If follows the English language Chart, s/he must translate it into the target language.
- It would link to the main english domain (using the [[:en:]] link type and additionally to similar language subdomains .
- The user could ask to delete a request o change something in the Chart, if necessary. --Macv 18:40, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Broken link
The example link to the CPP Portal no longer works, so I'm hoping someone can fix it. Fw190a8 19:13, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Language subdomains
I suggest create a special formulary (more easy) to create a language subdomain of an existing Wikia. It could use the same chart of the main Wiki, if the requester deciedes so. And it would be easy link from one language to the other (in a similar way to links from English language Wikipedia to Spanish, French... Wikipedias and viceversa. --Macv 18:35, 29 November 2007 (UTC)