The material here in the first few posts of this thread won't work, so ignore it for now.
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Hello everyone,
As we all know, TLG installed the Language Extension to the Wiki with the last update.
Many of us have been confused about what it could be used for, but it occurred to me that we could use it restructure Baka-Tsuki to the standard alt. language organization on all other MediaWikis. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you know how on Wikipedia, you can click on the change-language button, and any page will show up in a different language?
With the Language Extension, this capability would be fully available on Baka-Tsuki. (Notice how there's a change-language button at the top of BT right now?) You could set your language preference, and it would selectively/automatically display pages in the priority of your preferred language. Of course, this doesn't work right now... @____@
In order to do this, we would need to restructure Baka-Tsuki's alternative language structure to conform with MediaWiki standards.
Meaning, instead of making the alternative language pages their own page, the standard in MediaWiki is to use a sublanguage extension. For example, instead of:
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(French) http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Un_Simple_Sondage
(English) http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=A_Simple_Survey
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(Spanish) http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=A_Simple_Survey/es
(French) http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=A_Simple_Survey/fr
(English) http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=A_Simple_Survey
1). It makes use of the Language Extension, because that's how it functions. If pages aren't organized that way, the extension is useless.
2). The Language Extension has some code and functions dependent on this organization. For example, if you set your language preference to French, and when you click on the Sword_Art_Online page, the Wiki will automatically display Sword_Art_Online/fr if it exists. Otherwise, it will display the English. Note***
Any opinions?
Note***: Technically, you actually also need the Extension:AutoLanguage. IDK if TLG installed it. But if he installed the extension that allows you to set your language preference... it's kind of useless unless you install it together with the AutoLanguage extension...(?)