Hi community, we are using Confluence (cloud) and JIRA service desk (cloud). Now we are about to set up a knowledge base in Confluence as a separate space. It will be filled by us and accessible for our customers. As we are having customers with different language background we want to support at least 2 languages and maybe add more in the future. To not run into problem at a too late point in time we are thinking about how to achieve this goal. Requirements we have so far: * For one article user should easily switch the language (found an article in english but wanna read it in french) * Create/Change one article in one language and get the other translated articles created/updated automatically (with as less effort as possible) * Have the same article hierarchy structure for each language (if we need one page for each article and each language) * Enforce some kind of style throughout the knowledge base (should be feasible thru Template usage) * Generate pages from outside (should be feasible thru Confluence REST API) The first idea was to simply provide one article on different pages where each page is a translation of this article. The title must be unique in one space so we would have to add something like the language to the title. This already gives the impression to be not the best solution on that. What would be your way to achieve this? What obstacles to keep in mind? Maybe there are plugins that can help or other ways how to build up such a system. We are already aware of this question: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/Developing-a-Knowledge-Management-Solution-in-Confluence/td-p/1368595#M7326 Any feedback on would be welcome, Roman

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Knowledge Base in Different Languages

Roman Wolf

Hi community,

we are using Confluence (cloud) and JIRA service desk (cloud). Now we are about to set up a knowledge base in Confluence as a separate space.

It will be filled by us and accessible for our customers. As we are having customers with different language background we want to support at least 2 languages and maybe add more in the future.

To not run into problem at a too late point in time we are thinking about how to achieve this goal.

Requirements we have so far:

For one article user should easily switch the language (found an article in english but wanna read it in french)
Create/Change one article in one language and get the other translated articles created/updated automatically (with as less effort as possible)
Have the same article hierarchy structure for each language (if we need one page for each article and each language)
Enforce some kind of style throughout the knowledge base (should be feasible thru Template usage)
Generate pages from outside (should be feasible thru Confluence REST API)

The first idea was to simply provide one article on different pages where each page is a translation of this article. The title must be unique in one space so we would have to add something like the language to the title. This already gives the impression to be not the best solution on that.

What would be your way to achieve this? What obstacles to keep in mind? Maybe there are plugins that can help or other ways how to build up such a system.