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+Title: Internationalization
+Links: links.h doco-links.h
+
+<h3>Internationalization</h3>
+
+Mailman 2.1 is fully internationalized.  This means you can add
+translations of all the email and web templates so that your users can
+interact with your mailing lists in their native language.  Language
+choices are handled as follows:
+
+<ul>
+    <li>Each Mailman installation has a server default language.
+    Mailman ships with US English as the server default.
+
+    <li>The site administrator can install new language packs as
+    donated by volunteer translators.  If you'd like to volunteer to
+    help with translations, or would like to download language packs
+    for installation at your site, please contact the
+    <a href="mailto:mailman-i18n@python.org">mailman-i18n@python.org</a>
+    mailing list.
+
+    <li>Once a language pack has been installed, the site
+    administrator can make those additional languages available to
+    individual lists, and can change the server default language to
+    one of these languages.
+
+    <li>Individual list owners can choose which languages they'd like
+    their mailing list to support from the suite of site-enabled
+    language packs.  The list owner can also select the list's default
+    language.  Mailing lists can thus be monolingual (with English or
+    any other installed language as the default), or they can be
+    multilingual.
+
+    <li>Individual users can choose what their preferred language is,
+    from the set of list-enabled languages.  Thus, if a list is
+    multilingual, the user can choose which language they'd prefer
+    when interacting with Mailman.
+</ul>
+
+It must be noted that Mailman never actually translates the messages
+that flow through its mailing lists.  It's up to the list members to
+adhere to their community's language conventions.
+
+<h3>Mailman Internationalization Resources</h3>
+
+The following resources are available for those wishing to use
+internationalized versions of Mailman.
+
+<dl>
+    <dt><b>Japanese</b></dt>
+    <dd>Tokio Kikuchi maintains the
+    <a href="http://mm.tkikuchi.net/"><em>Japanized Mailman Page</em></a>
+    and also runs a mailing list for Japanese Mailman users, for which
+    the <a href="http://mm.tkikuchi.net/pipermail/mmjp-users/">archives</a>
+    are publically available.
+</dl>