X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/7f134d77d326df0b3d4762c4bd5f3f402794be0a..a3957888bcf1929586b332df382bd2fbee931272:/doc/translation.mdwn diff --git a/doc/translation.mdwn b/doc/translation.mdwn index 22801d997..9d874d98e 100644 --- a/doc/translation.mdwn +++ b/doc/translation.mdwn @@ -23,12 +23,16 @@ essentially three pieces needed for a complete translation: file, and in preprocessor directives. 1. The [[basewiki]] needs to be translated. The - [[plugins/contrib/po]] ikiwiki plugin will allow translating + [[plugins/po]] ikiwiki plugin will allow translating wikis using po files and can be used for this. + There is now a website, [l10n.ikiwiki.info](http://l10n.ikiwiki.info) + that both demos the translated basewiki, and allows easy translation of + it. + To generate the po and pot files for translating the basewiki, - get ikiwiki's source, and edit the `underlaypo.setup` file, - adding your language. Then run 'perl Makefile.PL; make underlaypo`. + get ikiwiki's source, edit the `po/underlay.setup` file, + adding your language. Then run 'make -C po underlays`. 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.