diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e69de29..98e94cd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+*.py?
+*.sw?
+*~
+.coverage
+.tox
+/*.egg-info
+build
+dist
+__pycache__
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 2ded4ae..93bff54 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 include AUTHORS
 include LICENSE
 include README.md
-# recursive-include multilingual/templates *
+# recursive-include shared/multilingual/templates *
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6c8f4f7..6b8b44c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ from io import open
 import os
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
+import shared.multilingual
+
 
 def read(filename):
     path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), filename)
@@ -13,7 +15,7 @@ def read(filename):
 
 setup(
     name='django-shared-multilingual',
-    version=__import__('multilingual').__version__,
+    version=shared.multilingual.__version__,
     description=' Collection Django tools for multilingual websites.',
     long_description=read('README.md'),
     author='Erik Stein',
@@ -24,6 +26,7 @@ setup(
     packages=find_packages(
         exclude=['tests', 'tests.*'],
     ),
+    namespace_packages=['shared'],
     include_package_data=True,
     install_requires=[
         # 'Django<2',
diff --git a/shared/__init__.py b/shared/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de40ea7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shared/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+__import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
diff --git a/multilingual/__init__.py b/shared/multilingual/__init__.py
similarity index 100%
rename from multilingual/__init__.py
rename to shared/multilingual/__init__.py
diff --git a/multilingual/search/__init__.py b/shared/multilingual/search/__init__.py
similarity index 100%
rename from multilingual/search/__init__.py
rename to shared/multilingual/search/__init__.py
diff --git a/multilingual/search/multilingual_xapian_backend.py b/shared/multilingual/search/multilingual_xapian_backend.py
similarity index 100%
rename from multilingual/search/multilingual_xapian_backend.py
rename to shared/multilingual/search/multilingual_xapian_backend.py
diff --git a/multilingual/utils/__init__.py b/shared/multilingual/utils/__init__.py
similarity index 100%
rename from multilingual/utils/__init__.py
rename to shared/multilingual/utils/__init__.py
diff --git a/multilingual/utils/fields.py b/shared/multilingual/utils/fields.py
similarity index 100%
rename from multilingual/utils/fields.py
rename to shared/multilingual/utils/fields.py