History: MultilingualDev

Tiki handles an unilingual website very well.

Goal: To become:
1- a strong tool for multilingual sites (non-parallel and parallel) using version control and document workflow & roles

And then:
2- an open source Translation Management System (TMS) using the Translation Memory eXchange open standard.

Tiki could then easily handle multilingual documentation.

Why do we need all this? Please see the video

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TikiWiki for a multi language website (January 2nd 2003)
TikiWiki for multilingual site management (May 15th 2003)

Open Source:
Typo3's approach
EZ publish's approach
Glasnost's approach
Ovidentia's approach
Wikipedia:Interlanguage links
Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination
This Wikipedia Embassy is being set up as a central place for resources to help with cross-language issues
Localizer with Plone
OpenACS Internationalization

Commercial:
MS-CMS
RedDot
Roxen
Idiom

Discussions:
Xaraya forum discussion on the subject
PHPwiki discussion about Multi Lingual Wiki

Background Info:
3 approaches to Multilingual CM (PDF)
5 Criteria for Selecting a Global CMS
Comparison of MS-CMS and RedDot, includes a section on Multilingual sites, page 4 (PDF)

mailing lists:
The purpose of Intlwiki-l is to discuss and (in various ways) coordinate work on the different "Wikipedias" that exist in different languages

other links:
Smarty Multilanguage Support
SmartyAndLocalization
SmartestSmartyMultilanguageSupport
best way to build a multi-language site with smarty

reports:
Can content management systems handle your multilingual application needs?

articles:
Multi language usability
Checklist for a multilingual website