For the Yunus Emre Institute: a content network running the websites of 93 centres in 69 countries from one codebase, a culture and arts platform that opens to each country, and a bilingual digital magazine.
One Codebase, 93 Centres, 69 Countries
Each of the institution's centres around the world needed its own website, language and editors — yet brand, security and approval had to be managed from one place. We built a network of three platforms: a multi-site institutional content system, the Turkish Art Platform and a digital culture magazine.
The content system gives each centre its own subdomain; country roles see only their own sites, and content passes a seven-stage approval running from country to headquarters. The culture and arts platform manages artists, works, events and applications per country; the magazine publishes with per-issue access rights.
The Hard Part
Scale and multilinguality together. We wired machine translation into the workflow, but wrote a separate protection layer so template variables and editor markup survive translation intact. For the culture platform's maps we avoided dependence on a third-party service and hosted the basemap on our own servers.
How We Built It
- A subdomain-based multi-site structure with a 10-level role model
- Seven-stage content approval from country to headquarters, with revisions and previews
- A machine translation workflow that protects variables
- Shared user management through the institutional directory (LDAP); hash-chained audit
- A digital magazine with per-issue access rights and branded PDF generation
The Result
93 centres in 69 countries publish from one codebase. The content system was built through more than 500 pull requests, and its end-to-end tests are planned, written and repaired by agents. The culture platform and the magazine were delivered hardened by security scanning.
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