Template:Language/archives/Lang2/doc

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A translation template. Successor to both {{Lang}} (itself was forked to create {{Lang2}}) and {{MultiPage}}, while solving most of the limitations in both templates. Currently the template is largely incomplete and cannot be used in any pages until bugs or issues is fixed. Also this template only support very few languages as it was being rewritten to only support languages that are most popular, and to cleaning up code before adding new languages.

Differences

Features	{{Lang}}	{{Lang2}} (this template)	{{MultiPage}}	{{Page}}
Language subpage location	English: None (base page) Other languages: Page_name{{:}}Lang	English: None (base page) Other languages: Page_name/Lang	All, including English are located in Page_name/Lang. The base page itself just contains {{MultiPage}}.	Rely on {{Strings}} or {{Autolang}}, meant that all other languages are hidden in the base page.
Requires purge?	Base page only, in order to display the language icons if the translated page (except English) is edited or created. [confirm]	Same as {{Lang}}[confirm].	Required	No
Category translation support	Yes, has separate translated category page which only list translated pages.	Unknown	Yes, but translated pages are not added to the translated category page, unlike {{Lang}}.	Unknown
Preview languages	Yes	Yes	Yes	English only

Usage

Todo: Documentations. English page should be on base page, while others are located in subpage, with /language-ids suffix at the end of the page name (Example: Half-Life 2/vi, Half-Life 2/zh, etc... just like {{MultiPage}}). Pages begin with prefix Lang-ID is not supported at the moment as it's requires alot of testing and this template may or may not work with them.