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diff --git a/doc/translation.mdwn b/doc/translation.mdwn index e3e458ce7..71e50cb1b 100644 --- a/doc/translation.mdwn +++ b/doc/translation.mdwn @@ -30,3 +30,15 @@ essentially three pieces needed for a complete translation: 1. The [[basewiki]] itself needs to be translated. The [[plugins/contrib/po]] ikiwiki plugin will allow translating wikis using po files and can be used for this. + + To generate the po and pot files for translating the basewiki, + get ikiwiki's source, and edit the `basewikipo.setup` file, + adding your language. Then run 'perl Makefile.PL; make basewikipo`. + This will generate many po files under `po/underlays`. The first + ones you'll want to translate are in the `po/underlays/basewiki` directory, + which is really not very large, just a few thousand words. + After that is done, you can tackle those under + `po/underlays/directives`, which are a much larger tens of + thousands of words. + + |