Internationalisation

Context

Today wikifab has 2 websites :

• http://beta.wikifab.org : the first version in french
• http://en.wikifab.org : the english version

This requires that users create one account on each platform, and tutorials must be created separately on each site.

We want to have only one website, with translation features included. So that every tutorial can be easily translate to be available in many languages.

Mediawiki has an extension for this : Translate ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate ) this enable that each page of the wiki can be translated. Wikifab use the PagesForm extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Forms (extensions called previously SemanticsForm ). Unfortunately, this extension doesn't support page translation.

installation guide

To develops this feature, you can either install a wikifab wiki and add Translate extension, or just install a mediawiki with Translate and PageForm extensions :

Install wikifab site

Follow the tutorial here : https://github.com/Wikifab/wikifab-main

Then install Mediawiki extension Translate, see instructions here : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Language_Extension_Bundle

Install empty mediawiki with extension Translate and PageForm

Here are the commands to install ( proccess for ubuntu)

wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-1.27.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf mediawiki-1.27.1.tar.gz
mv mediawiki-1.27.1 translation.wikifab
cd translation.wikifab
cd extensions
git clone https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-PageForms PageForms

And install Mediawiki extension Translate : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Language_Extension_Bundle