you can do these as www-team: * add definitions in a file such as english/vote/vote.defs
* add its reference to vote_FILES in english/po/Makefile * run something like, make -C english/po pot * need to run update-vote.[short-lang].po in each [language]/po directory to sync translations secretary@ needs to use the tags for fixed form strings, or nothing will change. note: in case secretary@ refuses to use it, still you can use template for your own -- victory no need to CC me :-)