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:

café@Recipes

 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 for what each page type does, and Wiki Page Properties for the rest of the settings.