LanguageSetupWelcome (./) /!\ <!> If you have just installed or upgraded your wiki you are not in the wrong place.Just read the informations given below. <!> /!\ (./)
System and Help Page Package installationMoinMoin comes with no system and help pages installed by default (the page you read right now is the only page after a fresh installation). Becoming superuserFor installation of the language packages, it is required that you are superuser: If you do not already have an account, create one (see hints on the login page). If the wiki is not already configured to recognize you as a superuser, change wiki config appropriately: See HelpOnConfiguration for more details. Restart the wiki to make it load the changed configuration. Login in (with the login name you configured as superuser). Installing page packagesYou can install help and system page packages for any language you want to support for your wiki users. You should see links for each supported language, and below an install link for each page package of that language — click on it for each of the packages you wish to install. When you're finished, restart the wiki (otherwise it won't recognize the newly installed pages correctly). /!\ Make sure you at least install the essential system page package for the language_default
you might have configured (the default for this setting is en
, i.e English). Note however that if you don't install the whole page set, the installed pages may contain broken links to the non-installed. /!\ If you want to use translated categories and templates, after installing their corresponding pages you still need to update your page_category_regex
and page_template_regex
configs to match the translated page names. See HelpOnConfiguration and for more details. FrontPage configurationFor the root URL of your wiki, moin will use a special page (called the "front page"). Users can be given a translated front page in their preferred language, or they can be given any other single page you specify. Note: you must set page_front_page
to get rid of this page being the front page: OR If you go the single language way, you can copy some of the content of FrontPage (or one of its translations) to the page you choose as your page_front_page
. If you go the multiple language way, don't forget to edit all translations of FrontPage. /!\ If you go the multiple languages way, people reaching your wiki will be directed to the front page corresponding to their browser language setting. If you did not prepare that page (see front page name for different languages in wiki comment below), they will see the default page for their language and have the impression the wiki is empty or badly maintained. ArabicArabic (written in Arabic XXX)arnone
BulgarianБългарскиbgНачалнаСтраница
CatalancatalàcaPàginaPrincipal
CzechČeštinacsHlavniStranka
DanishDanskdaForSide
GermanDeutschdeStartSeite
GreekΕλληνικάelnone
EnglishEnglishennone
SpanishEspañolesPáginaInicial
PersianPersianfaصفحه اولیه
FinnishSuomifiEtuSivu
FrenchFrançaisfrPageD'Accueil
GaliciangalegoglPáxinaInicial
Hebrewעבריתheדף ראשי
HindiHindi (XXX in Hindi)hinone
CroatianHrvatskihrPočetna
HungarianMagyarhuKezdőLap
IndonesianBahasa IndonesiaidHalamanMuka
ItalianItalianoitPaginaPrincipale
JapaneseJapanesejaフロントページ
Korean한국어ko대문
KurdishKurdish (XXX in kurdish)kunone
LithuanianLietuviųltPirmasisPuslapis
LatvianLatviešulvSākumLapa
MacedonianМакедонскиmkПочетна
MongolianMongolian (XXX in Mongolian)mnЭхний хуудас
Norwegian BokmalNorsk BokmålnbStartSide
DutchNederlandsnlVoorPagina
PolishPolskiplStronaGłówna
Brazilian PortuguesePortuguês do Brasilpt-brPáginaPrincipal
PortuguesePortuguêsptPáginaPrincipal
RomanianRomânăroPaginaPrincipală
RussianРусскийruГлавнаяСтраница
SlovakslovenčinaskHlavnáStránka
SlovenianslovenščinaslPrvaStran
SerbianSrpskisrНасловнаСтрана
SwedishSvenskasvStartSida
TurkishTürkçetrAnaSayfa
UkrainianУкраїнськаukПочаток
VietnameseTiếng ViệtviTrang đầu
Simplified Chinese简体中文zh首页
Chinese/Taiwan繁體中文zh-tw首頁
User interface text translationsMoinMoin tries to adapt the user interface to the language the user prefers. If the user puts a specific language preference into his user preferences, that language will be used for the user interface. But the user doesn't even need to do that if he already has configured his browser with his language preferences. If there is no specific user preferences language setting, moin tries to adapt to the languages the user configured in his browser. So if the browser tells moin that its preference is Canadian English, then German, then English in general and moin has German and English available (but not a specific configuration for Canadian English), then the user will get a German user interface. If there is no common language in the user's browser configuration and in moin or if you have set language_ignore_browser = True
, moin will fall back to using what is configured as language_default
. This is also the case if the user's browser does not specify any language. The usual case when you want to set language_ignore_browser = True
is when running a local wiki with no international audience and you maintain the wiki in only one (your local) language. Don't forget to specify your one-and-only language using language_default when doing this. System and help page translations and the navigation barThe MoinMoin distribution archive contains the system pages (like RecentChanges
) in different languages, selecting the correct language in the same way as for the user interface. For example, if the navi_bar contains a link to RecentChanges
, moin will first look for a translation of RecentChanges
into the user's language. So if the user's language is German (de), the translation is AktuelleÄnderungen
. Moin will use AktuelleÄnderungen
in the navi_bar display if that page actually exists; otherwise, it will fall back to using RecentChanges
. Understanding Language packsQuickstart (for lazy people): Install the package all_pages
for the language(s) in which you provide some content. For each language, there is up 17 packages of underlay pages. The underlay pages are split by priorities (essential
, optional
and "all
") and by categories: *_System_*
- Page needed run the wiki like RecentChanges, FindPage and FrontPage. *_Help_*
- Some help pages (mostly for wiki editors) *_Template_*
- Templates ! *_Category_*
- MoinMoin built-in categories (like Category
Category
) *_Admin_*
- Pages useful for wiki administrators only *_pages
- Contains the content of all 5 packages above. Language packs are named like essential_help_pages.zip
, where essential
and help
are the priority and category. Here's a matrix with the packages available: Categories
System HelpTemplateCategoryAdminAll Categories
Essential essential_system_pages
essential_help_pages
essential_template_pages
essential_category_pages
essential_pages
Optional optional_system_pages
optional_help_pages
optional_template_pages
optional_pages
All priorities all_system_pages
all_help_pages
all_template_pages
all_category_pages
admin_pages
all_pages
The language packs are compiled according to pages listed in MoinMoin/i18n/strings.py (using the command moin maint mkpagepacks
)