While on a business trip to Germany I had some free time one evening and decided to write an Oddmuse extension for translation links. It’s supposed to be a bit like Wikipedia’s translation links, except slightly easier. At some point I had a different extension that allowed you to keep translated pages in synch – something that might be appropriate for a multilingual state run website, but useless for a site thriving on voluntary contributions.
an Oddmuse extension for translation links
We take advantage of the fact that there is a known number of target languages. Oddmuse can now tell if appropriate translation links exists. If they do, these are shown at the bottom of the page. If not, a link helps the user to pick one of the missing languages and name the new page.
I’ve installed it on the EmacsWiki. See TranslatingPages.
I think it’s elegant and appropriate for Emacs Wiki, quite unlike the existing translation extension which allowed you to keep translations in sync. That is more appropriate for a government site of a multilingual country.
existing translation extension
It was inspired by discussions at WikiSym2008 and XavierMaillard’s prompt on EmacsWiki:2008-10-27.
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That’s awesome ! I hope I can translate as much pages as possible into my native tongue. Thank you for the good job (once again)
– XavierMaillard 2008-10-30 11:20 UTC