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@@ -40,7 +40,43 @@ Any thoughts on this?
 >> Can you please do this? If not, I'll go on and hope I'm not going to far in
 >> the wrong direction.
 >>
 >> Can you please do this? If not, I'll go on and hope I'm not going to far in
 >> the wrong direction.
 >>

+>>> Sure.. I'm not completly happy with any of the hooks since they're very
+>>> special purpose, and also since `run_hooks` is not the best interface
+>>> for a hook that modifies a variable, where only the last hook run will
+>>> actually do anything. It might be better to just wrap
+>>> `targetpage`, `bestlink`, and `beautify_urlpath`. But, I noticed
+>>> the other day that such wrappers around exported functions are only visible by
+>>> plugins loaded after the plugin that defines them.
+>>> 
+>>> Update: Take a look at the new "Function overriding" section of
+>>> [[plugins/write]]. I think you can just inject wrappers about a few ikiwiki
+>>> functions, rather than adding hooks. The `inject` function is pretty
+>>> insane^Wlow level, but seems to work great. --[[Joey]]
+>>>
+>>>> Thanks a lot, it seems to be a nice interface for what I was trying to achieve.
+>>>> I may be forced to wait two long weeks before I have a chance to confirm
+>>>> this. Stay tuned. --[[intrigeri]]
+>>>>
+>>>>> I've updated the plugin to use `inject`. It is now fully self-contained,
+>>>>> and does not modify the core anymore. --[[intrigeri]]
+>>

 >> The Discussion pages issue is something I am not sure about yet. But I will
 >> probably decide that "slave" pages, being only translations, don't deserve
 >> a discussion page: the discussion should happen in the language in which the
 >> pages are written for real, which is the "master" one. --[[intrigeri]]
 >> The Discussion pages issue is something I am not sure about yet. But I will
 >> probably decide that "slave" pages, being only translations, don't deserve
 >> a discussion page: the discussion should happen in the language in which the
 >> pages are written for real, which is the "master" one. --[[intrigeri]]

+>> 
+>> I think that's a good decision, you don't want to translate discussion,
+>> and if the discussion page turns out multilingual, well, se la vi. ;-)
+>> 
+>> Relatedly, what happens if a translated page has a broken link, and you
+>> click on it to edit it? Seems you'd first have to create a master page
+>> and could only then translate it, right? I wonder if this will be clear
+>> though to the user.
+>>
+>> And also, is there any way to start a translation of a page into a new
+>> lanauge using the web interface?
+>> 
+>> FWIW, I'm tracking your po branch in ikiwiki master git in the po
+>> branch. One thing I'd like to try in there is setting up a translated
+>> basewiki, which seems like it should be pretty easy to do, and would be
+>> a great demo! --[[Joey]]