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--- a/doc/translation.mdwn
+++ b/doc/translation.mdwn
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 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
@@ -24,9 +24,21 @@ 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.
+
+   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.
+
+