Namespaces for languages

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Scenario

You want your mediawiki installation to have articles in different languages. You want that by default, your users only see articles in their browser's language.

Solution

• Install a DE namespace for your wiki. Do as described in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces. For this tutorial, we assume DE is namespace 100.
• Add the following to your LocalSettings.php:

$wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault = array(
        NS_MAIN           => true,
        100               => true
);
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'],"de")===false)
{
  $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault[100]=false;
}

• start your firefox (in this tutorial we assume it is 3.0.10), add "German" (de) under Edit=>Preferences=>Content=>Languages
• LOG OUT from your wiki to get rid of the search user preferences
• go to your wiki and click on "search". Verify "DE" is tagged.
• remove "German" (de) under Edit=>Preferences=>Content=>Languages
• go to your wiki and click on "search". Verify "DE" is not tagged.