Familypedia:Multilingual articles

Articles in the Main namespace are not assumed to be english and may be of any language and have any title including those using non latin fonts, including arabic, chinese, cyrillic, and sanskrit.

There are two tiers of article multilingual support.
 * First tier: This level requires no additional effort by contributors writing an article in a particular language. So long as the original contibutor used the Person template, vistor genealogists will be able to see column and row headings for the genealogical information in their native language.
 * Second tier: In this tier, the visitor will see a link in the upper left hand corner indicating their language name in their native script. Upon clicking the language link, they will be taken to the subject's base article written in the alternate language.  From here, other subpages may be available, also written in the alternate language.

This support is in addition to what vistors get after setting their user preferences to a particular language. First tier support requires the user preference for language to be set. Second tier support does not require user preference setting.

Glossary
 * Base Article: This is the article name without any slashes in the name
 * Subpage: This is an article whose name has a slash in it. The portion of the name preceding the slash is the Base Article.  The portion following is the subpage.  Example:  For William I, King of England (1027-1087)/Biography, the "base article" refers to William I, King of England (1027-1087).  The subpage would be refered to as the "Biography" subpage.
 * Tabs template referes to Template:Tabs person, and it's language variants Template:Tabs person/fr, Template:Tabs person/ru and so on. This template places the language links on the title bar on the far right.