Tutorials/Hacking MediaWiki/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.

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