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diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
index f6409aae5..585e14383 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ Apache
 
 Using Apache `mod_negotiation` makes it really easy to have Apache
 serve any page in the client's preferred language, if available.
-This is the default Debian Apache configuration.
+
+Add 'Options MultiViews' to the wiki directory's configuration in Apache.
 
 When `usedirs` is enabled, one has to set `DirectoryIndex index` for
 the wiki context.
@@ -123,14 +124,17 @@ Setting `DefaultLanguage LL` (replace `LL` with your default MIME
 language code) for the wiki context can help to ensure
 `bla/page/index.en.html` is served as `Content-Language: LL`.
 
+For details, see [Apache's documentation](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/content-negotiation.html).
+
 lighttpd
 --------
 
-lighttpd unfortunately does not support content negotiation.
+Recent versions of lighttpd should be able to use
+`$HTTP["language"]` to configure the translatted pages to be served.
 
-**FIXME**: does `mod_magnet` provide the functionality needed to
- emulate this?
+See [Lighttpd Issue](http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/show/1119)
 
+TODO: Example
 
 Usage
 =====
@@ -209,16 +213,16 @@ preferred `$EDITOR`, without needing to be online.
 Markup languages support
 ------------------------
 
-[[Markdown|mdwn]] is well supported. Some other markup languages supported
-by ikiwiki mostly work, but some pieces of syntax are not rendered
-correctly on the slave pages:
+[[Markdown|mdwn]] and [[html]] are well supported. Some other markup
+languages supported by ikiwiki mostly work, but some pieces of syntax
+are not rendered correctly on the slave pages:
 
 * [[reStructuredText|rst]]: anonymous hyperlinks and internal
   cross-references
 * [[wikitext]]: conversion of newlines to paragraphs
 * [[creole]]: verbatim text is wrapped, tables are broken
-* [[html]] and LaTeX: not supported yet; the dedicated po4a modules
-  could be used to support them, but they would need a security audit
+* LaTeX: not supported yet; the dedicated po4a module
+  could be used to support it, but it would need a security audit
 * other markup languages have not been tested.
 
 Security
@@ -250,15 +254,6 @@ once [[intrigeri]]'s `meta` branch is merged.
 An integration branch, called `meta-po`, merges [[intrigeri]]'s `po`
 and `meta` branches, and thus has this additional features.
 
-Self links
-----------
-
-If a page contains a WikiLink to itself, ikiwiki does not normally
-turn that into a hyperlink. However, if a translated page contains a
-WikiLink to itself, a hyperlink is inserted, at least with the default
-`po_link_to` the link points to the English version of the page. Is there a
-good reason for that to be done? --[[Joey]] 
-
 Language display order
 ----------------------
 
@@ -268,22 +263,6 @@ order, as `po_slave_languages` is a hash. It would need to be converted
 to an array to support this. (If twere done, twere best done quickly.)
 --[[Joey]] 
 
-Duplicate %links ?
-------------------
-
-I notice code in the scan hook that seems to assume
-that %links will accumulate duplicate links for a page.
-That used to be so, but the bug was fixed. Does this mean
-that po might be replacing the only link on a page, in error? 
---[[Joey]] 
-
-Name of toplevel index page
----------------------------
-
-Normally at the top index page of a wiki, you see the wiki name at
-the top. However, at the top *translated* index page, you see something
-like "index.da". --[[Joey]] 
-
 Pagespecs
 ---------
 
@@ -304,7 +283,12 @@ pages as edit links, as if those pages do not exist.
 That's really confusing, especially as clicking such a link
 brings up an edit form to create a new, english page.
 
-This is with po_link_to=current. With default, it doesn't happen..
+This is with po_link_to=current or negotiated. With default, it doesn't
+happen.. 
+
+Also, this may only happen if the page being linked to is coming from an
+underlay, and the underlays lack translation to a given language.
+--[[Joey]] 
 
 Double commits of po files
 --------------------------
@@ -318,7 +302,24 @@ and then committed again. The second commit makes this change:
 	+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"
 
 Same thing happens when a change to an existing page triggers a po file
-update.
+update. --[[Joey]] 
+
+Ugly messages with empty files
+------------------------------
+
+If there are empty .mdwn files, the po plugin displays some ugly messages.
+
+Translation of directives
+-------------------------
+
+If a translated page contains a directive, it may expand to some english
+text, or text in whatever single language ikiwiki is configured to "speak".
+
+Maybe there could be a way to switch ikiwiki to speaking another language
+when building a non-english page? Then the directives would get translated.
+
+(We also will need this in order to use translated templates, when they are
+available.)
 
 Documentation
 -------------