Apparently, no "current wiki engines do not support the efficient creation and maintenance of such content"
This video from the The Cross Lang Wiki project explains it all.
Interesting links:
- http://wiki-translation.com -> The solution is here! and in Tiki 2.0
- http://i18n.tiki.org
- http://drone-alliance.org/wordpress/2006/08/20/i18n-revisited/
- http://drone-alliance.org/wordpress/2004/08/28/multilingual-collaborative-websites/#more-5
- http://www.itia.ntua.gr/~anthony/tmp/multilangwikis.html
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Translation
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation
- http://tiki.org/tiki-directory_browse.php?parent=65
Is simply sending notifications enough?
Well, this doesn't fully address the concerns, but does at least let language-specific page authors know when they need to update a translation (plus it seems like something easy to implement):
- Author A creates page Foo in English.
- Author B creates page Bar in Spanish.
- Pages A and B are specified as translations of each other. As such, any time one page is updated, the owner of the other page receives a "translation notification" (similar to a "watched page" email).