X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/5659e9881eb75347da136bfd3128748e5ba6974a..e8d8386e5258c055f253b20ad717461972b11c7d:/doc/translation.mdwn diff --git a/doc/translation.mdwn b/doc/translation.mdwn index 449ad4710..e3e458ce7 100644 --- a/doc/translation.mdwn +++ b/doc/translation.mdwn @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ 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()`. Building from source creates a `po/ikiwiki.pot` that - can be copied and translated as a po file. All very standard. + 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 include: @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ essentailly three peices needed for a complete translation: 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.