1\. Don’t.  Instead, do this:

In `/nikola/conf.py.in`:

```py
TRANSLATIONS_PATTERN = "${TRANSLATIONS_PATTERN}"
```

In `/nikola/plugins/command/init.py`, add `TRANSLATIONS_PATTERN'` to the dict on line 71 and set it to the value you will import from `nikola.nikola`.

2\. you do.
3\. no need to.
4\. I’d check travis anyways before pulling.