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From [[Recai]]:

Here is my initial work on ikiwiki l10n infrastructure (I'm sending it before finalizing, there may be errors).

I've revised the patches (tested OK):

However...

fine. Also a final note, I haven't examined the quality of generated templates yet.

Looks like, tmpl_process3 cannot preserve line breaks in template files. For example, it processed the following template:

Someone[1], possibly you, requested that you be emailed the password for

user <TMPL_VAR USER_NAME> on <TMPL_VAR WIKINAME>[2].

The password is: <TMPL_VAR USER_PASSWORD>

--
ikiwiki

[1] The user requesting the password was at IP address <TMPL_VAR

REMOTE_ADDR> [2] Located at <TMPL_VAR WIKIURL>

as (in Turkish):

Birisi[1], ki muhtemelen bu sizsiniz, <TMPL_VAR WIKINAME>[2] üzerindeki <TMPL_VAR USER_NAME> kullanıcısına ait parolanın epostalanması isteğinde bulundu. Parola: <TMPL_VAR USER_PASSWORD> -- ikiwiki [1] Parolayı isteyen kullanıcının ait IP adresi: <TMPL_VAR REMOTE_ADDR>[2] <TMPL_VAR WIKIURL>

Looks like, tmpl_process3 cannot preserve line breaks in template files. For example, it processed the following template:

This could be easily worked around in tmpl_process3, but I wouldn't like to maintain a separate utility.


As to the hardcoded strings in ikiwiki, I've internationalized the program, and there is a po/ikiwiki.pot in the source that can be translated. --[[Joey]]


Danish l10n of templates and basewiki is available with the following commands:

git clone http://source.jones.dk/ikiwiki.git newsite
cd newsite
make

Updates are retrieved with this single command:

make

l10n is maintained using po4a for basewiki, smiley and templates - please send me PO files if you translate to other languagess than the few I know about myself: dr@jones.dk

As upstream ikiwiki is now maintained in GIT too, keeping the master mirror in sync with upstream could probably be automated even more - but an obstacle seems to be that content is not maintained separately but as an integral part of upstream source (GIT seems to not support subscribing to only parts of a repository).

For example use, here's how to roll out a clone of the Redpill support site:

mkdir -p ~/public_cgi/support.redpill.dk
git clone git://source.jones.dk/bin
bin/localikiwikicreatesite -o git://source.redpill.dk/support rpdemo

(Redpill support is inspired by http://help.riseup.net but needs to be reusable for several similarly configured networks)

--[[JonasSmedegaard]]

I don't understand at all why you're using git the way you are.

I think that this needs to be reworked into a patch against the regular ikiwiki tree, that adds the po4a stuff needed to generate the pot files for the basewiki and template content, as well as the stuff that generates the translated versions of those from the po files.

The now merged po plugin also handles some of this. --[[Joey]]