Topic on Extension talk:Translate

Nippo4512 (talkcontribs)

I have a wiki for a community that is pretty much split in half between two languages, that being English and Japanese. Unfortunately, our community pretty much does not have a primary language between these two. With this extension, our wiki is currently able to translate English content into Japanese, but I would like to have the ability to do JP -> EN, as well as for the Japanese writers to have the ability to write new content on pages that have already been translated. This extension is very good for organizing translations, at the consequence of flexibility on Japanese pages, as they cannot be edited normally. Is it possible to lift this restriction, or is there another possible extension or method to achieve this? It feels very limiting to not allow our Japanese half of the community to contribute new material, and are instead only limited to English translation.

I was able to find this link: Multilingual MediaWiki#"Create a page in this language", which allows for pairing pages of different languages. This method may suffice if it is not possible to add more flexibility to the extension. However, this may lead to translation being more cumbersome.

Nikerabbit (talkcontribs)

You can (and should) set the page content language for each page. To do that you need to set $wgPageLanguageUseDB = true;. Translate extension will then use that as the source language.


It is not possible to new add content to pages in languages other than the source language. with this extension. ContentTranslation extension could in theory be used, but it's not officially supported outside Wikipedia, and it doesn't track translations like Translate does.

Nippo4512 (talkcontribs)

Thanks for your answer!