Topic on Help talk:Extension:Translate

Wiki language = English

Suppose there is a page LifeOfCats

Special:MyLangauge works like this:

LifeOfCats = English

LifeOfCats/fr = French

LifeOfCats/ru = Russian

If I create a page in Russian, it should obviously be LifeOfCats/ru

When I translate it into English, I want that the parent page LifeOfCats to be created. But there is no such possibility.

If I create LifeOfCats/ru and assign it the language Russian, then the translation into English produces LifeOfCats/ru/en. It is wrong. The English version must be LifeOfCats - the parent page relative to other languages. Only then will the hierarchy of translations and Special: MyLanguage work correctly

Is there an easy way to create pages with a source language different from the wiki language so that they can be translated?

Special:PageLanguage, accesible from "Page information", should do the trick (live example).

I solved this problem with "Shaman's Magic Tambourine".

Does it make sense to publish the algorithm here in the discussion?

I'm interested in what that means...

When the source text is created in another language, there is an algorithm that will help translate it into the main language and at the same time maintain the correct page hierarchy, as well as ensure the proper operation of the Special:MyLanguage links.

Just in case still helpful, there are docs on the Special:PageLanguage feature at Manual:Language#Page_content_language - see the subsection "Manually changing page language".