diff --git a/docs/contributing/translators-guide.md b/docs/contributing/translators-guide.md
index 89422b5a74..017140413d 100644
--- a/docs/contributing/translators-guide.md
+++ b/docs/contributing/translators-guide.md
@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ gettext documentation for more details). It happens in several steps:
 1. the strings to translate are extracted from the C++ sources using xgettext
    program into a wxstd.pot file which is a "text message catalog"
 
-2. this new wxstd.pot file (recreated every 1-4 years even if new messages were added
-   to wxWidgets) is merged with existing translations in another .po file (for
-   example, de.po) and replaces this file (this is done using the program
-   msgmerge)
+2. this new wxstd.pot file (which is updated from time to time by running
+   `make wxstd.pot` in the `locale` subdirectory) is merged with existing
+   translations in another .po file (for example, de.po) and replaces this
+   file (this is done using the program msgmerge)
 
 3. the resulting .po file must be translated