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What is there to learn about translating this wiki.

When to apply translation

Translation can be used in country's or area's where multiple languages are used. Belgium is a good example: about 50-50 French-Dutch and also a small part German.

How to use

Under the hood

Translating pages on the wiki is done with the help of the MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle.

Extension in this bundle provide the necessary tools for translating a wiki. The following extensions are part of the bundle (Version MLEB 2013.09):

Translate
Special page for translating MediaWiki and beyond
Babel
Adds the #babel parser function to allow automated generation of a babel userbox column with the ability to include custom templates
Clean Changes
More compact display of the recent changes list
Language Names
Extension which provides localised language names based on CLDR data
LocalisationUpdate
Keeps the localised messages as up to date as possible
UniversalLanguageSelector
Gives the user several ways to select a language and to adjust language settings

More info over installed extensions can be found in the Special Version page.