Template:Language/archives/MultiPage/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Language.
Don't forget to purge the contents of the base page upon creating or editing this subpage.

Purge base's cache

Warning:Editors, please read this! If you have moved a {{lang}} page other than English, you must remove the old language category page (anything ends with Category:(Page Name):es or Category:(Page Name):(language code) for example).
Furthermore, if you also moving the English {{Lang}} page aswell, you must move the category back to the main ({{MultiPage}}) page to avoid showing the language subpage on category.

Bug:If the user changes the font size (other than 16px) on the web browser, the language toolbar will get overlapped with topicons (e.g. {{HLATools topicons}}). This is a limitations in MediaWiki software itself.  [todo tested in ?]

Todo: Add a {{Error}} message to warn editors who have previously added MultiPage, but forgot to remove {{Lang}}.

Replacement for {{Lang}}.

The template will look for translation subpages and load one of them according to the interface language. The template will load the English version and display a message if the translation subpage does not exist. The template will only display a message if there are not any translations and the English version does not exist.

Creating a new page

Just create an empty page, put a {{MultiPage}} on it, click on the translation button ( ) in the upper right corner and select the primary language. After making a choice, {{MultiPage}} will redirect you to edit the language subpage on which you will need to place your text and template {{Language subpage}}.

Usage on existing pages

Before using it on an existing page, you should make sure that you have done the following steps:

1. Move the English content of the My Cute Article page to its language subpage My Cute Article/en
   Important:Do not move associated talk page, however if there are talk pages on any languages other than English, you can move them.
2. Move the contents of the translated My Cute Article page to its language subpage My Cute Article/<language code> (for example, My Cute Article:zh-cn will become an My Cute Article/zh);
3. Move the English categories to the base (main) page, aka the one with {{MultiPage}} (for example, to the My Cute Article page);
4. Move the shared or international templates to the base page;
5. Remove language suffixes (:pt-br, |suf=:de) from all language subpages. They are deprecated and no longer needed.
6. Remove language categories (for example, [[Category:My Cute Category:ru]]) from all language subpages. They are deprecated and no longer needed.
7. Place {{Language subpage}} at the top of the language subpages.
8. If the article pertains to an entity, move the {{Entity}} template to the root page. The Entity template is automatically translated.

After the above steps, place {{MultiPage}} on the base page above the categories and enjoy what you see.

Note:It is also recommended to clean and improve the code of the pages. For example, you could replace all {{note}} with {{Note}}, and add the tab spacing with some line breaks.

Important:Do not categorize the language subpages, and if they have any categories, remove them.

Parameters and Examples

Parameter	Description	Example
No Parameters	Places a template.	{{Language}}
{{{title}}}	Optional: 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.	{{MultiPage|title=Main Page}}
{{{margin-right}}}	Optional: The right margin of the buttons that are to the right top.	{{MultiPage|title=Main Page|margin-right=26px}}
{{{no-en-subpage}}}	Optional: If you don't move the original English page to the subpage /en, and this will allow you stay the original content on the main page. Specify it as 1 to take effect. Note:The template must be placed before the content, or it cannot be worked. You must place the template {{MultiPage/end}} at the end of the content. See also example.	{{MultiPage|no-en-subpage=1}} {{Lorem}} {{MultiPage/end}}

Examples

{{MultiPage}}

Note:If you want to change the title, use the parameter {{{title}}} of {{Language subpage}} in language subpages so that the title will change automatically. Otherwise, you can

{{MultiPage|title = My sweet page}}

for non-translatable title.

Other

Currently Supported Languages

Language	Page name	Icon
English	Page_name/en
Catalan	Page_name/ca
Czech	Page_name/cs
German	Page_name/de
Greek	Page_name/el
Esperanto	Page_name/eo
Spanish	Page_name/es
Estonian	Page_name/et
French	Page_name/fr
Hebrew	Page_name/he
Hindi	Page_name/hi
Hungarian	Page_name/hu
Italian	Page_name/it
Japanese	Page_name/ja
Georgian	Page_name/ka
Khmer	Page_name/km
Korean	Page_name/ko
Malay	Page_name/ms
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
Swedish	Page_name/sv
Turkish	Page_name/tr
Ukrainian	Page_name/uk
Vietnamese	Page_name/vi
Chinese (PRC)	Page_name/zh
Chinese (Taiwan)	Page_name/zh-tw