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How to add language links to the MediaWiki sidebar?

I've installed a MediaWiki site and I have configured it to have a multilingual wiki. To do that I have created a folder for each wiki (for example for English language: /home/fuiba/en/, for German language: /home/fuiba/de/ ) and all the folders have a symbolic links to the source code, so I have the same source code for all wikis, and the same database, but with its own tables.

Then I created many sub-domains for each language that points to the folder relative the wiki (www.en.site.com points to /home/fuiba/en/, www.de.site.com points to /home/fuiba/en/).

In the www.en.site.com/wiki/Main_Page I want to add the languages links in the Sidebar, like Wikipedia:

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I checked the Sidebar page (MediaWiki:Sidebar) and there is a link for the Languages:

 * LANGUAGES

but I don't see the languages link on the Sidebar. How do I add theme?

Solution

  • There is a Manual page for this on mw.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interwiki#Interwiki_links_to_other_languages

    You just need to do these steps and after this you can use the markup [[iwcode:Pagename]] (where iwcode the language prefix and Pagename the name of the destination page) to link the language versions to this article.

    Best!