If you want to translate your wiki into another language, there are
-essentailly three peices needed for a complete translation:
+essentially three pieces needed for a complete translation:
1. The messages in the ikiwiki program itself need to be translated.
Ikiwiki is internationalised, and most such messages are already marked
- with `gettext()`. THe source tarball includes a creates a `po/ikiwiki.pot`
+ with `gettext()`. The source tarball includes a `po/ikiwiki.pot`
that can be copied and translated as a po file. All very standard.
Note that a few things in the source are not currently translated. These
1. The templates also need to be translated. Some work has been done on an
infrastructure for maintaining translated templates, as documented in
- [[patchqueue/l10n]], but until that's complete, you'd need to copy and
+ [[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. Whether to only translate
- the page contents, or also translate the page names, is an open
- question.
+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.