DekiWiki Translation

[rancorbeast]

Hey guys. Got a bit of a stupid question / noob question here.

I'm using DekiWiki for a university project right now and I'm still in the process of learning it all. Believe it or not It's my first experience with linux so please forgive my apparent stupidity and the long post

Basically I'm building a very small wiki for the faculty help desk so we can all throw our knowledge some place smart.

Anyway I got the whole thing working and loving every minute of it but there are two concerns I got.

First: I would really like to translate the whole thing in french. I know the next release of Dekiwiki will make this easier in the Hayes release but I'm wondering if I can get started right now. The only mention of this in the doc says this:

"If you have an other translatet language file (languages\Language.php) please attach it to this site with following naming convention: language_dekiwikiversion_language.php (ex: german_gooseberry_language.php)"

What is a "translatet language file"... are we talking about the translation files floating around for MediaWiki ?

Second: Right now I have the wiki hosted on my home server using a dyndns account. My faculty director is setting up a hostname for me and we will be moving my install on to there. The problem is this. The URL for the images I have embeded in the wiki pages seems to be written with the full path as in:

hostname/File:./wiki.png

instead of a more local path like:

/file:./wiki.png

So by problem is when I move to my new hostname I'll have to "fix" all the images.

So that's about it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

BTW if anybody at opengarden.org need any help translating the user manual to french I'll be glad to help out. I will need to produce some french doc anyway so I might as well contribute to this awesome project. If anyone is interessted you can view what I got so far at

http://glh.dyndns.org:8888

I even got a minor skinning done

Thanks a lot

[royk]

nearly all the textual strings are stored in language/language.php; this is what they mean by updating the translation files.

changing your hostname should not affect image attachments in pages; the script should update them accordingly, as long as you update your $IP variable in localsettings.php (or not, if you don't update the system path)

[rancorbeast]

Did I mention I was a noob ? I fooled around with language.php and changed a few strings to test it out with no luck. For example,

'addSubpage' => 'New sub-page',

changed to

'addSubpage' => 'Nouvelle sous-page',

I force-reloaded the page but nothing changed...

however, I took a look at ace.php and there was a section of the file with a div class that looked promissing...

<div class="pagebar">
<div class="pagebar_options">

There it was again the "addsubpage" function and the text actual shown on screen next to it. I changed that and now it showed on screen.

so is there something in the language.php that I missed ?

I know you guys probably know DekiWiki like the back of your hand but I'm in the process of learning it all so please be patient with me.

Thanks

[royk]

No, you didn't miss anything. The localization is a bit of a mess right now; some things are stored in languages/Language.php, and other things are directly stored in files like skins/Ace.php. You didn't miss anything - if you're trying to fix up some localization strings, I would check the language file first; if that doesn't work, post a question here and I can let you know where that localization string is.

[AaronF]

FYI, big improvements to this in Hayes release.

[rancorbeast]

I will give it a try right now !!

Thanks for following up it's really appreciated !