Template:Otherlang2

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This is a old translations template, which is now deprecated, but right now it is still useful. When the wiki was updated to use thos translation standard, this template was placed on all pages with translations, including protected pages, and because this template was never protected, we can edit the contents of those pages through this template. At the moment it uses {{Protected Page Editor}} to edit protected pages that use {{otherlang2}}, which allows users to add new translations and adding support for new languages with {{MultiPage}}.

If you want to add translations to other languages, it's highly recommended that you use {{MultiPage}} for future pages, and to add translations to Templates, use {{autolang}} with {{uselangflags}} instead.

Historically, nearly all the previous page using {{Otherlang2}} now uses {{Lang}}, which soon to be also deprecated with {{MultiPage}} replacing it.

The only downside of this template is that vandals, spammers, and users who violated the VDC's Terms of Use for various reasons, taking advantage of it and allowing them to editing certain protected pages that had the {{Otherlang2}} template on it.