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diff --git a/Messages.sh b/Messages.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..5f078d79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Messages.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# call xgettext on all source files.
+$EXTRACT_TR_STRINGS `find . -name \*.cpp -o -name \*.h -name \*.qml` -o $podir/kube.pot
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 95e5c8e5..b5fff0f4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -12,3 +12,12 @@ GPLV2+
 
 ## Getting involved
 
+www.kube.kde.org
+
+## Extract translatable messages
+
+$ svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-kf5/scripts
+$ mkdir po
+$ mkdir enpo
+$ export LUPDATE=lupdate-qt5
+$ PATH=/path/to/scripts:$PATH bash /path/to/scripts/extract-messages.sh