: Does Mediawiki need to be installed twice to support a second website in another language? I have a wiki which has English as the default language. Now I want the same wiki in "Malayalam".

@Cody1181609

Not necessarily but it would require considerable time to tweak your wiki. See here: www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multilingual_MediaWiki
Note that if you had both languages on the same wiki, you would not be able to:


Getting an index of all pages or recent changes across languages
Maintaining a single watchlist across multiple languages
Using special pages across a set of languages.


It may be complicated to go with this first option.

There is a translate extension which might help. See here: www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate
Alternatively, given that you already have the translated contents, I would recommend setting up either a subdomain or directory and installing a second installation of MediaWiki there.

The two mediawikis
domain.com/mal/wiki or mal.domain.com/wiki
domain.com/eng/wiki or eng.domain.com/wiki or domain.com/wiki

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