* The names and values of parameters, both to the program, in the setup
file, and in preprocessor directives.
-1. The [[basewiki]] itself needs to be translated. The
- [[plugins/contrib/po]] ikiwiki plugin will allow translating
+1. The [[basewiki]] needs to be translated. The
+ [[plugins/po]] ikiwiki plugin will allow translating
wikis using po files and can be used for this.
+ There is now a website, [l10n.ikiwiki.info](http://l10n.ikiwiki.info)
+ that both demos the translated basewiki, and allows easy translation of
+ it.
+
To generate the po and pot files for translating the basewiki,
- get ikiwiki's source, and edit the `underlaypo.setup` file,
- adding your language. Then run 'perl Makefile.PL; make underlaypo`.
+ 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.
+ `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