I tried the po plug-in like this:

http://merriam.branchable.com/ikiwiki.cgi?do=setup#setup_format_plugin_po (intentionally a plain address -- specific to my site)

master language (non-PO files)
  en|English
slave languages (translated via PO files) format: ll|Langname
  de|Deutsch
  th|Thai
PageSpec controlling which pages are translatable
  *
internal linking behavior (default/current/negotiated)
  default

My root is now a directory listing, and the pages don't look right. For example, index.en has just 1 language link; others have 2 or none.

The index page archives.de has both language links, but also lists the year once for each language:

* 2010
* 2010.de
* 2010.th

I'm saying this in a comment on the feature announcement so as to warn people that it's apparently easy to hose your site by trying this feature.

Hi merriam,

I had a similar problem (with a site not on Branchable).

I just branched your site to propose a possible solution:

• http://po-test.branchable.com/index.en.html
• http://source.po-test.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=commitdiff;h=8987ad6bc8ab647443820a43789601f373fbe3d3
• http://source.po-test.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=commitdiff;h=f2e0805c90a865246f28ce48ff0ec4774a92939c

I think that I will delete it in a couple of days. Sorry for not posting a patch directly. I am a bit clumsy with Markdown this night. But if the solution is good, I hope it will be findable as a commit on your side.

-- Charles

merriam, sorry for the mess there. Existing sites were missing an apache configuration tweak that was made for new sites. I've fixed that up for all sites and yours works now.

pessy, that is a good fix for the problem that normally with a translated site, a blog will pick up translations and include them in the feed as if they were regular posts. In case it goes away, your patch is to add "and !page(./posts/*.??)" to the PageSpec. I might do that to ikiwiki's default blog to avoid the problem.

Actually a better fix than plessy's approach is to add this handy thing to the PageSpec: "and currentlang()"

That way, the main (ie, English) page will show only posts in English, while a translation will show only the translated versions of the posts.

I've branched jopotest to demo that approach.