Extension Localisation Wiki using Translate/Installation

The wiki will be running the latest copy of MediaWiki, and be updated on a regular basis. This is to help ensure full compatibility with the Translate extension (which is developed with trunk in mind, being as Betawiki runs on it) and also enable more features to be available.

MediaWiki
If you are not using the Wikiation testing environment setting up a wiki via the standard procedure would suffice. The documentation below can be followed if you are using the environment.

Wikiation Testing Environment
For this wiki the software is installed using the wikiation_installer, which is documented properly elsewhere - but in essence the following commands were issued.


 * 1) wikiation_installer
 * 2) install latest as w
 * 3) quit

A user was then created for myself to use (and promoted), before the Admin account's password was scrambled. This is done because it is a wiki that is going to be used for real, rather than just for testing - thus the "Admin" account should be replaced with accounts for actual users.

CLDR
As a prerequisite to installing the Translate extension, the CLDR extension is installed. It uses a repository from Unicode, and amongst other things provides the translation of language names in many different languages.


 * 1) cd /var/www/revisions/w/extensions/
 * 2) svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/cldr/

The following would then be added to LocalSettings.php.

Translate
The Translate extension is the primary focus of the wiki and will be used to carry out the majority of work.


 * 1) svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Translate/</tt>

Then the extension must be enabled in LocalSettings.php</tt>.

More configuration will be necessary, but this is not discussed at this point.