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===Completely separate blogs===
===Parallel blogs (not really a solution to the problem stated, more like a workaround)===
[http://hoder.com/ Hoder Derakhshan]
* Hoder Derakhshan: [http://hoder.com/weblog/ English] and [http://i.hoder.com/ Persian]
* Dave: [http://www.heartsnatcher.com/ French], [http://unknowngenius.com/blog/ English], and [http://moshikashitara.com/ Japanese] (different content)
* Loïc Le Meur: [http://loiclemeur.com/france/ French] and [http://loiclemeur.com/ English]
* Céline Graciet: [http://www.nakedtranslations.com/en/ www.nakedtranslations.com/en/] (English) and [http://www.nakedtranslations.com/fr/ www.nakedtranslations.com/fr/] (French) - a freelance translator's blog: identical content, but separate comment threads.


===Parallel (everything translated one-to-one and side-by-side)===
===Parallel (everything translated one-to-one and side-by-side)===

Revision as of 11:54, 22 January 2006

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Examples of multilingual blogs

Multilingual blogs (or sites) spotted in the wild:


Parallel blogs (not really a solution to the problem stated, more like a workaround)

Parallel (everything translated one-to-one and side-by-side)

merdeinfrance (tone may be offensive)

Parallel (language choice passed through URL)

kafka/en kafka/de

Side-by-side

Two separate blogs in distinct languages, not aligned by date or in translated pairs.

Interwoven (paragraph by paragraph)

emanuelle

Two languages per post (complete translation)

spiekermann 09h09

Two languages per post (toggleable by Javascript)

ozh (wordpress)

One language per post

martinepage

Code Samples

From climbtothestars.org

<div class="post" lang="en">

	<p class="date-permalink">permalink here</p>
	<h2 class="post-title" id="post-1259"><a href="http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2006/01/22/requirements-for-a-multilingual-wordpress-plugin/"
        rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Requirements for a Multilingual Wordpress Plugin">
        Requirements for a Multilingual Wordpress Plugin</a></h2>
    
    <div class="other-excerpt" lang="fr"><p>Quelques réflexions concernant un plugin 
    multilingue pour WordPress.</p>
    </div>        	
	<div class="post-content">
	<p>My blog has been bilingual for a long time now. Rest of post content...</p>
        </div>
</div>

From serendipity.lascribe.net

 
<div class="post" lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">
	<h3 class="storytitle" id="post-247"><i>wicket</i> = <i>guichet</i>!</h3>
	<div class="postbody clearfix">
	<div class="meta1">
	<p><span class="otherversion" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
	<a href="http://serendipity.lascribe.net/ling-lang/2005/12/wicket-guichet/?lp_lang_view=en" 
	title="English version" rel="alternate" hreflang="en">※ english version </a> </span> 
	[...]</p>

From the Canadian government

http://canada.gc.ca/

 
<html lang="en">
[...]
<td valign="bottom" width="150"><table width="150" summary="Our tables are used for the page layout. 
Nos tables sont utilisées pour la mise en page." border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
	<td width="75" align="center"><a title="English" href="/main_e.html">
	<img src="/images/englishbt.gif" alt="English" height="27" border="0" width="91"></a></td>
	<td></td>
	<td width="75" align="center"><a title="Français" href="/main_f.html" lang="fr">
	<img src="/images/francaisbt.gif" alt="Français" height="27" border="0" width="91"></a></td>
</tr>

From Wikipedia

The Wikipedia navigation uses no attributes, except for language-specific classes. Example http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olm%C3%BCtz :

<nowiki>
<ul>
<li class="interwiki-ar">
<a href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B3">العربية</a></li>
<li class="interwiki-bg">
<a href="http://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%86">Български</a></li>
<li class="interwiki-cs"><a href="http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">Česky</a></li>
<li class="interwiki-en"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">English</a></li>
<li class="interwiki-eo"><a href="http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">Esperanto</a></li>
<li class="interwiki-es"><a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">Español</a></li>
<li class="interwiki-fr"><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">Français</a></li>
<li class="interwiki-is"><a href="http://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">Íslenska</a></li>
<li class="interwiki-lt"><a href="http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomoucas">Lietuvių</a></li>
<li class="interwiki-nl"><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">Nederlands</a></li>
<li class="interwiki-pl"><a href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%C5%82omuniec">Polski</a></li>
<li class="interwiki-ru">
<a href="http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%86">Русский</a></li>
<li class="interwiki-sv"><a href="http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">Svenska</a></li>
</ul>

</nowiki>