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lang and multipage

(using Template:Message) Anybody know how to transition pages using {{lang}} to {{multipage}}? The amount of pages (especially quite important ones) using lang has really hampered my translating efforts. Are you supposed to move all the translated pages like Category:Modding:fr to Category:Modding/fr individually and mark all the old pages with deletion. I know there's some info on the multipage documentation page, but it's a bit unclear and I'd really rather not create some big mess. --Wisdurm (talk) 20:15, 23 Dec 2023 (UTC)

(using Template:Message) Move the English page to [page name]/en, then for all other languages, move them to be subpages of the base page (e.g. from Main Page:es to Main Page/es). Assuming no pages link to the original language page, mark it for deletion. After that, replace all instances of {{lang}} on the subpages with {{langsp}}, and if the page should have a different title in said language, instead use {{langsp|title=[translation]}}. Remove any categories the subpages are in. Then, add {{MultiPage}} to the base page and place categories there as well. If {{this is a}} was on the English page, move it to the base page, it'll automatically translate based on the language.

So, if Main Page:es contained this:

{{lang|title=Display Title}} Page Contents [[Category:1]]

then Main Page/es should contain this (note the omission of the category):

{{langsp|title=Display Title}} Page Contents

 --Pee (talk) 21:09, 23 Dec 2023 (UTC)