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Arabic mediawiki doesn't display arabic messages
salemoh at fastmail
May 15, 2004, 9:32 PM
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Hi All,

I'm trying to start an arabic wiki site (similar to the arabic Wikipedia)
but when I install Mediawiki (1.2.5) and switch to the arabic language
everything goes right-to-left but most of the messages (Link names, page
titles, ...) stay in english. I'm not that PHP expert so I couldn't debug
it.

LocalSettings.php contains the below two variables

$wgUseDatabaseMessages = false;
$wgLanguageCode = "ar";

It is an in-place installation.

Thanks in advance,
MO


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Re: Arabic mediawiki doesn't display arabic messages [ In reply to ]
brion at pobox
May 16, 2004, 12:39 AM
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Mohammad wrote:
> I'm trying to start an arabic wiki site (similar to the arabic Wikipedia)
> but when I install Mediawiki (1.2.5) and switch to the arabic language
> everything goes right-to-left but most of the messages (Link names, page
> titles, ...) stay in english. I'm not that PHP expert so I couldn't debug
> it.

LanguageAr.php is unfortunately not very complete; on ar.wikipedia.org
most of the localized messages are provided by customized messages in
the MediaWiki: namespace pages. Unless someone's already set up to do
this, you'll have to collect them all and copy them in.

(This could be done programatically; the cur database dump available
from http://download.wikimedia.org/ will include all pages including the
special MediaWiki: pages which carry the localized messages.)

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