1 If you want to translate your wiki into another language, there are
2 essentially three pieces needed for a complete translation:
4 1. The messages in the ikiwiki program itself need to be translated.
5 Ikiwiki is internationalised, and most such messages are already marked
6 with `gettext()`. The source tarball includes a `po/ikiwiki.pot`
7 that can be copied and translated as a po file. All very standard.
9 Note that a few things in the source are not currently translated. These
12 * Error messages of the "should never happen" variety.
13 * Certian info in commit messages, which is not visible from inside the
14 wiki, but is visible in the commit logs. This needs to stay in English
15 so that ikiwiki can parse it back out of the logs.
16 * Some parts of FormBuilder forms, which should be translatable by
17 adding templates. Note that these forms don't need templates for the
19 * The name of the `index` page, which has a special meaning to browsers
21 * The names of some other pages, like `sidebar` and `openid`.
22 * The names and values of parameters, both to the program, in the setup
23 file, and in preprocessor directives.
25 1. The templates also need to be translated. Some work has been done on an
26 infrastructure for maintaining translated templates, as documented in
27 [[todo/l10n]], but until that's complete, you'd need to copy and
28 translate the templates by hand.
30 1. The [[basewiki]] itself needs to be translated. The
31 [[plugins/contrib/po]] ikiwiki plugin will allow translating
32 wikis using po files and can be used for this.
34 To generate the po and pot files for translating the basewiki,
35 get ikiwiki's source, and edit the `basewikipo.setup` file,
36 adding your language. Then run 'perl Makefile.PL; make basewikipo`.
37 This will generate many po files under `po/underlays`. The first
38 ones you'll want to translate are in the `po/underlays/basewiki` directory,
39 which is really not very large, just a few thousand words.
40 After that is done, you can tackle those under
41 `po/underlays/directives`, which are a much larger tens of