STOP SOPA ☣ STOP RWA
Two bills are making their way through the U.S. Congress that would have highly negative consequences for AcaWiki and the public good. Please take action against both.
Many large sites are blacked out January 18 to spur action against SOPA. Visit americancensorship.org to take action against this bill, which is a censorship and security risk for the entire internet. Wikimedia's General Counsel explains how SOPA would hurt wikis.
RWA would prohibit federal agencies from conditioning their grants to require that articles reporting on publicly funded research be made accessible to the public online. This is unjust and would specifically harm AcaWiki by greatly reducing the number of people with access to important literature — access is required to summarize. Please tell congresspeople to oppose RWA.
See AcaWiki:SOPA-RWA for planning and discussion of this message.
AcaWiki:Language policy
From AcaWiki
An exact language policy for the Acawiki has not yet been defined. An initial idea is that every page can be available in multiple languages when needed, using the PageName/code location, where code is one of the standard MediaWiki language codes, for example
/es => 'Español', # Spanish /fr => 'Français', # French /zh-hant => '中文(繁體)', #Traditional Chinese /zh-hans => '中文(简体)', #Simplified Chinese
See the official MediaWiki names list for a full list.
If you want to add a translation to a page that does not yet have any translations, you first need to add a new line containing
{{Languages}}
to the existing page. That will make the language selector appear on the page.
Then you need to create a new translated page by taking the page name from the URL, and appending /language-code to it.
For example, if you wanted to add Simplified Chinese to the Main Page, you would need to create a new page "Home/zh-hans".
To create a new page, enter the page name in the search field, press 'Go', then 'create a new page'.
If for some reason the default English page is not showing up, please add it as a parameter as such:
{{Languages|Home}}
