Multilingual site installation, Step #1: Allow selecting more than one language during installation.

Created on 2 June 2013, almost 12 years ago

Updated 30 April 2025, 10 days ago

This is a basic step required for enabling multilanguage installations. There's been quite some discussion in #1917212: Add checkbox in installer to enable content translation (if in foreign language) → and now in #2007632: Create multilingual install profile. → .

Creating a multilingual installation profile that enables the right modules and perhaps tweaks other things here and there is a good thing UX-wise (so that site builders don't go pogo-sticking after installation), but we first and foremost need to have a multilanguage site in place to begin with.

So, what needs to be changed is to allow the user to select multiple languages during installation. Having the drop-down language selection menu be a multi-select widget instead would do it, but having to ctrl+click or shift-click is not good UX. What if we kept the drop-down as is but added a "Add another language" button? This would trigger a multilanguage site installation with some additional steps (TBD).

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11.0 🔥

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install system

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🇦🇺Australia klonos 90% Melbourne, Australia - 10% Larissa, Greece

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🇺🇸United States smustgrave
Thank you for creating this issue to improve Drupal.

We are working to decide if this task is still relevant to a currently supported version of Drupal. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or is no longer relevant. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

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