Locale: en-US
Page: Wiki Page Locales

Page Type:

Alias Page To:

Page Border:

Table of Contents:

Title:

Author:

Meta Robots:

Meta Description:

Meta Properties (such as Open Graph)

One line per property in format: name|content

Header Page Name:

Footer Page Name:

: A wiki page belongs to a language as well as to a group. The page called
Coffee in en-US and the page called Coffee in fr-FR are two separate pages
with two separate histories: writing one leaves the other as it was, and a
reader is shown the one for the language they are reading in.

: The Locale dropdown on a page's settings says which language the page you
are looking at belongs to. Choosing another language from it takes you to
that language's copy of the page, making an empty one if it does not exist
yet. So a page is translated by choosing the language and writing, not by
mixing two languages into one page.

: A reader who asks for a page in a language it has not been written in is
shown the page in the site's default language, so a group can be filled in
one language first and translated as time allows.

==Giving a Page a Name in Its Own Language==
: Readers of another language look for a page by a name in their own
language. A French reader looks for café, not for Coffee. Two things
make that work, and they are worth telling apart:

* The page's '''name''' is what stands in the address, and what a link
inside the wiki points at.
* The page's '''title''' is what a reader sees at the top. It is set with
the Title box on the settings, and can be written in any language without
touching the address.

: To give a language its own name as well, write the page under the name
readers of that language will look for, and point it at the page holding
the words. In the French locale, make a page named café, set its
Page Type to Alias Page To, and name Coffee in the Alias Page To box.
Anybody asking for café is taken to Coffee, and the words are kepte
in one place rather than two.

: An alias can also name a page in another group, written as the page name,
an at sign, and the group name:

<pre>
café@Recipes
</pre>

: Aliases are worth using anywhere a page is known by more than one name,
not only across languages: an old name kept working after a page is
renamed, an abbreviation, or a plural.

==What Belongs in Each Language==
: Everything on a page's settings belongs to that language's copy: its
title, its type, its properties, and the files kept with it. Changing the
border on the French page does not change the border on the English one.
A group's own settings, on the other hand, are shared by every language.

: See [[Wiki_Page_Types|Wiki Page Types]] for what each page type does, and
[[Wiki_Page_Properties|Wiki Page Properties]] for the rest of the settings.