[xwiki-users] Original translation

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

Gerritjan Koekkoek wrote:
> HI,
> 
> I have a page that should be readable for multiple translations.
> Currently it has a translation 'en' (for english) which is the default  
> for the xwiki.
> The problem is that it also claims that the original version is  
> '.' (this page is empty)
> 
> 1) How can such a 'original' version have been created? (to prevent it)

No idea. I've never seen this so far.

> 2) How can I remove this version, so the 'en' version is seen as the  
> original

In older versions of XWiki (pre-1.0) there was an input for specifying 
the default language. Now, you can only access that property if you know 
how. Try visiting this URL:

/xwiki/bin/save/Your/Document?default_language=en
(replace Your/Document with the real document name). However, this may 
create a ghost, since it renames the language of the default document, 
while also leaving the existing en translation in place. So you have 3 
choices:

- do this rename and live with the ghost
- do nothing and live with the fake default
- copy data from the en translatio to the default ".", then delete the 
en translation and rename the default_language
- remove the whole document and recreate it from scratch

You should make a backup of your data first, if it is important.

> 3) Or is the '.' original 'good' behaviour?

No, that's not good at all.

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Sergiu Dumitriu
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