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diff --git a/doc/todo/language_definition_for_the_meta_plugin.mdwn b/doc/todo/language_definition_for_the_meta_plugin.mdwn
index feb39e2f9..90bfbef3b 100644
--- a/doc/todo/language_definition_for_the_meta_plugin.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/language_definition_for_the_meta_plugin.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Here is a patch for the [[plugins/meta]] plugin. It adds the possibility to define the language 
-used for a page, with \[[meta lang="ja"]]
+used for a page, with \[[!meta lang="ja"]]
 
 It doesn't insert the langage information in the xhtml meta elements, but defines a LANG
 variable to use in the templates, for example with
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ This may be useful for sites with a few pages in different languages, but no ful
  my %authorurl;
 +my %lang;
  
- sub import { #{{{
+ sub import {
         hook(type => "preprocess", id => "meta", call => \&preprocess, scan => 1);
 @@ -100,6 +101,11 @@
                 $meta{$page}.='<link href="'.encode_entities($value).
@@ -75,8 +75,27 @@ This may be useful for sites with a few pages in different languages, but no ful
 +       $template->param(lang => $lang{$page})
 +               if exists $lang{$page} && $template->query(name => "lang");
  
- } # }}}
+ }
 </pre>
 
-
-[[tag wishlist patch plugins/meta translation]]
+> Please resolve lang somewhere reusable rather than within meta plugin: It is certainly usable outside
+> the scope of the meta plugin as well. --[[JonasSmedegaard]]
+
+>> I don't see any problem with having this in meta? meta is on by default, and
+>> other plugins are free to use it or even depend on it (e.g. inline does).
+>>
+>> My only comments on this patch beyond what Joey said are that the page
+>> language could usefully go into `$pagestate{$page}{meta}{lang}` for other
+>> plugins to be able to see it (is that what you meant?), and that
+>> restricting to 2 characters is too restrictive (HTML 4.01 mentions
+>> `en`, `en-US` and `i-navajo` as possible language codes).
+>> This slightly complicates parsing the locale to get the default language:
+>> it'll need `tr/_/-/` after the optional `.encoding` is removed.
+>> --[[smcv]]
+
+>>> Now that po has been merged, this patch should probably also be adapted
+>>> so that the po plugin forces the meta::lang of every page to what po
+>>> thinks it should be. Perhaps [[the_special_po_pagespecs|ikiwiki/pagespec/po]]
+>>> should also work with meta-assigned languages? --[[smcv]]
+
+[[!tag wishlist patch plugins/meta translation]]