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 [[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.
+
+ To generate the po and pot files for translating the basewiki,
+ get ikiwiki's source, and edit the `basewikipo.setup` file,
+ adding your language. Then run 'perl Makefile.PL; make basewikipo`.
+ 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.
+
+