Example and Documentation for Multi-Language Site with authors and publications

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This renaming got me confused as there were some predatory repo copies of Academic before. Please communicate such a rename to the community!

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I'm still struggling to understand how feasible it is to build a multi-lingual page for my lab where we would have for instance publications that should be linked to the respective authors. Same for project pages etc pp. The included example only shows a simple index page in Chinese which is fine in itself but doesn't elude on how to use per-page translations in hugo or the like. Not sure if that is a systematic issue of hugo or if it is specific to the academic theme.

Describe the solution you'd like

Please provide a better documentation and example to show the facets of how to build a multi-lingual page.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Alternatives would be to support both translation methods throughout academic - seems that is not the case right now.

Additional context

Many laboratories are probably struggling with the same issue. For grant applications I need to point to a German version, wheras with international collaborators the English version is more relevant.

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Because academics have on one hand the requirement to connect to their international peers (usually with English) and at the same time invite members of the local community (in my case German). Currently the multilingual support is a huge burden for a lab website to maintain basically complete content trees for everything. Especially publications should be shared between both languages. Maybe this is just a usability problem, than either the documentation or the exampleSite should be altered.

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Feel free to upvote and give your feedback on my proposal for Hugo to merge content (such as authors and publications) across multilingual sites: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/5612

It appears Bep is currently planning it for Hugo v0.78. In the meantime, users have reported success with softlinking (ln -s) or copying content to each multilingual site, e.g. content_en and content_de folders. Another possibility is perhaps to put the universal constant in a Hugo Module in a separate repo and try to mount that Hugo Module to the content dir for each site.

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@gcushen - any comment on how the upstream issue gohugoio/hugo#5612is progressing? There seems lots of work to be done associated to the internationalization features, which I as just a user don't understand in detail. Maybe this issue can be closed?

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