Template:Lang

This template (and its redirect) is  Deprecated. Its use is not recommended and its functionality may be compromised.
You can help our editors by replacing or deleting this template on the Pages that use this template. Once no more pages use this template, it should be Marked for deletion.

Additional notes:
Template pages should use {{Autolang}} or a Strings subpage on template pages, and to preview translations use {{Uselangflags}} surrounded by <noinclude>. Documentation on how to use it can be found in that template and on the Valve Developer Community:Alternative Languages. Many new languages (such as Greek and Vietnamese) are only supported in {{MultiPage}}.
While {{MultiPage}} has been made to replace {{Lang}} (this template), there was some downsides from using this templates, such as requring users to purge so the newly edited (or translated) text will show up on the main page, so we recommend existing pages keep using this templates, until there is a proper replacement (see Todo below).

Todo: See Template_talk:Lang#Un-Deprecating Lang. Undeprecating Lang and add some features which was used in {{MultiPage}}, such as more languages (including changing zh-cn to zh), pages using /lang instead of :lang which makes it easier to find language subpages on "Page information", aswell as adding new languages, all without requiring users to purge the page.
As of 2024, both templates are being superseded by {{LanguageBar}}, which use "prefix" instead of "suffix" for language codes.

Warning:If you are moving the page, you MUST move the respective language page and edit the template on main page and put the new title on it aswell in order to prevent issues.

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This template is an improved version of {{Otherlang2}}. It retains all the functionality and automatically detects which languages a page has been translated into. It works on English and non-English pages, with or without namespaces. Otherlang2 may still be used, in the rare case that a translated page does not follow the wiki's standard method for translated page titles. As of 2023 (and still ongoing), it is slowly being replaced by {{MultiPage}}, which supports more languages and they are fully ISO 639 compliant.

Parameters and Examples

Parameter	Description	Example
{{{1}}}	The page that the template create multi-language links according to. It is required for other translation page. The contents of it should be the full name of the page the template is being applied on, including namespaces such as Help:, Template:, User:, etc. It should not include any language suffixes, however, such as :ru, :es, :zh-cn, etc. Note:Capitalization matters, even on the first letter of the page name! Underscores must be replaced with spaces. ai_changehintgroup must be written as Ai changehintgroup. However, this parameter can be omitted if the page name is without a suffix.	{{lang|Template:Lang}}
{{{2}}} ~ {{{8}}}	These parameters are used to link subpages (such as L4D2 Level Design/Add-on Notes, L4D Level Design/Panic Events, Half-Life: Alyx Workshop Tools/Animgraph/AnimGraph Introduction, etc.). Just replace "/" with "|" to link correctly. See the examples for details how to use them. Note:Do not link subpages with "/"! Use "|" instead of "/". Therefore, the template can link the pages correctly. Note:The subpages must be moved to a correctly name so that the template can link them. Non-English subpage names must follow this format: <page1><lang code>/<page2><lang code>/..., such as L4D Level Design:zh-cn/Panic Events:zh-cn	{{lang|L4D2 Level Design|Add-on Notes}} {{lang|L4D Level Design|Panic Events}} {{lang|Half-Life: Alyx Workshop Tools|Animgraph|AnimGraph Introduction}}
{{{title}}}	This parameter can be used to change the text of the page titlebar (logically, into the text that should be displayed for the language of the page). Warning:On some pages you may receive this error: Warning: Display title "env_cubemap" overrides earlier display title "<code>Env cubemap</code>". This can be due to the fact that the page uses a different template in which the page title is set.	{{lang|title=Template:Lang}}
{{{$title}}}	This parameter can be used to change the text of the page titlebar and place the title under the <code> tag - {{lang|Template:Lang|$title=$model}}.	{{lang|$title=Template:Lang}}
{{{notitle}}}	This parameter can be used to change the title of the site page itself, but not for the title of the article itself.	{{lang|notitle=1}}
{{{noborder}}}	This parameter can be set to 1 to hide the border around lang icons. If you don't plan on using it, don't bother defining it.	{{lang|noborder=1}}
{{{select}}}	The selection mode of the title. 1 is the one-click selection (just like clicking the "1").	{{lang|Template:Lang|select=1}}
{{{up}}}	Todo: Document it.	[Todo]

Examples

Here's an example for a hypothetical Spanish page called Category:Hello:es:

{{lang|Category:Hello|title=Categoría:Hola}}

This will add icons for all the versions of this page in different languages. It will also change the displayed title to a Spanish version of the name.

Currently Supported Languages

Currently Supported Languages

Language	Page name	Icon
English	Page_name
Esperanto	Page_name:eo
Catalan	Page_name:ca
Czech	Page_name:cs
German	Page_name:de
Spanish	Page_name:es
Estonian	Page_name:et
French	Page_name:fr
Hungarian	Page_name:hu
Italian	Page_name:it
Dutch	Page_name:nl
Norwegian	Page_name:no
Polish	Page_name:pl
Portuguese	Page_name:pt
Portuguese (Brazilian)	Page_name:pt-br
Russian	Page_name:ru
Ukrainian	Page_name:uk
Swedish	Page_name:sv
Turkish	Page_name:tr
Japanese	Page_name:ja
Chinese (PRC)	Page_name:zh-cn
Chinese (Taiwan)	Page_name:zh-tw
Korean	Page_name:ko
Georgian	Page_name:ka
Hebrew	Page_name:he

• Also, this template automatically adds a page language category at the bottom of the page.

Note:Most, not all of them of these language codes are compliant ISO 639 codes.

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Lang/doc. (Edit | Page history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.