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diff --git a/doc/translation.mdwn b/doc/translation.mdwn index e3e458ce7..459f47eb5 100644 --- a/doc/translation.mdwn +++ b/doc/translation.mdwn @@ -22,11 +22,21 @@ essentially three pieces needed for a complete translation: * The names and values of parameters, both to the program, in the setup file, and in preprocessor directives. +1. The [[basewiki]] 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, edit the `po/underlay.setup` file, + adding your language. Then run 'make -C po underlays`. + 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). + 1. The templates also need to be translated. Some work has been done on an infrastructure for maintaining translated templates, as documented in [[todo/l10n]], but until that's complete, you'd need to copy and translate the templates by hand. - -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. |