Template:Interlanguage link/doc

For guidance, see Help:Interlanguage links#Inline links.

This template links conditionally to pages on non-English Wikipedias. If the specified article does not exist on the English Wikipedia, this template intentionally displays a red link to that anticipated but still-nonexistent article, followed by link(s) to the specified article(s) on the non-English Wikipedia(s), shown under the corresponding language code(s), in brackets. Hovering over a non-English link displays the name of the article on the non-English Wikipedia, as normal. Links to non-English Wikipedia articles are always blue; it is up to the editor to make sure they link to the intended article.

If the specified article exists (that is, after the anticipated article has been created) on the English Wikipedia, this template will only show the blue link to that article, and no longer to the non-English link(s).

This template should not be used in hatnotes as red links should not be present in hatnotes.

Usage

There are several ways of using this template. It can produce links to one or more specific languages, Magnus Manske's Reasonator, or to the Wikidata table of languages.

The shortcut {{ill}} may be used.

A full list of language codes can be found at List of Wikipedias#Detailed list.

As of February 2016, if there is a redirect for the term in English Wikipedia, both the redirected (blue) link and interlanguage link(s) are displayed. This is why "casa" appears as a bluelink in the example below.

Link to one foreign language

To link to a foreign language article with the same title as the English Wikipedia, the parameters are:

{{ill|Article title|language code}}

• {{ill|Hanning Schröder|de}} gives Hanning Schröder

To link to a foreign language article with a different title, the parameters are:

{{ill|English article title|language code|Title in foreign language}}

• {{ill|Hooglede town hall|nl|Gemeentehuis van Hooglede}} gives Hooglede town hall

Link to multiple languages

To link to multiple languages with the same title as the English language page, the titles of the page are not necessary; the parameters are:

{{ill|English article title|language 1 code|language 2 code|...}}

• {{ill|casa|es|it|ro|de|haus}} gives casa

To link to multiple language articles, the parameters are:

{{ill|English article title|language 1 code|Title in language 1|language 2 code|Title in language 2|...}}

• {{ill|Olena Chaplynska|uk|Олена Чаплинська|ru|Чаплинская, Гелена|ja|モトローナ・チャプリーンシカ}} gives Olena Chaplynska

Link to Reasonator and Wikidata

To link to the Wikidata table of languages in which the article is available, the parameters are:

{{ill|Article title in English Wikipedia|WD=Wikidata item code}}

• {{ill|Jokery|WD=Q131138}} gives Jokery

All links to other Wikipedias are ignored if |WD= is present.

To link to Reasonator, add any value for the parameter |reasonator=. If a Wikidata item is linked, then the Reasonator link goes to the page for that item; if not, then a search is performed on Reasonator for that item.

Input	Output
{{ill|Jokery|WD=Q131138|reasonator=1}}	Jokery
{{ill|Jokery|reasonator=1}}	Jokery

Modifying the display

Displaying different text

To create a piped link (text displayed that is different from the title of the page to which the text links), use the |lt= parameter (which stands for "link text"). This is useful if disambiguation is necessary, for example to hide the (botanist) in Charles Darwin (botanist):

• {{ill|Charles Darwin (botanist)|lt=Charley Darwin|fr|Charles Darwin|de|Charles Darwin|es|Charles Darwin}} gives Charley Darwin

Do not use {{!}} to create piped links: {{ill|Maze (band){{!}}Mazy|...}} is not equivalent to {{ill|Maze (band)|lt=Mazy|...}}. The former will not cause the foreign language links to disappear when the English article exists.

Forcing links

To display the interlanguage links even if the English Wikipedia article exists, add any of the values 1, y, yes or force for the parameter |display=.

Input	Output
{{ill|Joke|fr|Blague|hu|Vicc|de|Witz}}	Joke
{{ill|Joke|fr|Blague|hu|Vicc|de|Witz|display=1}}	Joke

This feature should not be used in articles under most circumstances.

Remove bold formatting from links

Usually the display of the Interlanguage or Wikidata or the Reasonator (the "appended link") are in normal font, but if the appended link is for example in a title line of table, then along with the rest of the line the appended link will be bold. In such circumstances the appended link can be set to display unbolded by adding any value for the parameter |nobold=.

Input	Output
'''{{ill|Charles Darwin (botanist)|fr|Charles Darwin|de|Charles Darwin}}'''	Charles Darwin (botanist)
'''{{ill|nobold=1|Charles Darwin (botanist)|fr|Charles Darwin|de|Charles Darwin}}'''	Charles Darwin (botanist)

Italics and quotation marks

If the linked material should have quotation marks around it (e.g., it is a major work such as a film title), use |italic=y (or |italic=yes, etc.) to generate italic markup around the link but not around the square-bracketed inter-language links.{{ill|Un papillon sur l'épaule|fr|italic=y}} gives: Un papillon sur l'épaule

If the linked material should have quotation marks around it (e.g., it is a minor work such as a song title), use |quote=y (or |quote=yes, etc.) to generate them around the link, but not around the square-bracketed inter-language links, and not themselves part of the link. This only does double quotation marks: {{ill|Maman ne le sait pas|fr|quote=y}} gives: "Maman ne le sait pas"

If both are used, quotation marks will appear around an italicized title, without italicizing the quotation marks.

Vertical alignment

The vertical alignment of the interlanguage/Wikidata/Reasonator links can be altered by adding:

• vertical-align=sup to place the links in superscript
• vertical-align=sub to place the links in subscript

Input	Output
{{ill|vertical-align=sup|Charles Darwin (botanist)|fr|Charles Darwin|de|Charles Darwin}}	Charles Darwin (botanist)
{{ill|vertical-align=sub|Charles Darwin (botanist)|fr|Charles Darwin|de|Charles Darwin}}	Charles Darwin (botanist)

Examples

• {{ill|TC Matic|af|TC Matic|nl|TC Matic|fr|TC Matic|es|TC Matic}} gives TC Matic, because TC Matic exists here
• {{ill|TC Matic (band)|af|TC Matic|nl|TC Matic|fr|TC Matic|es|TC Matic}} gives TC Matic (band), because TC Matic (band) does not exist here
• {{ill|TC Matic (band)|af||nl||fr||es|}} gives TC Matic (band) – although shown in blue the interwiki links won't work because they default to the title "TC Matic (band)" which is wrong
• {{ill|TC Matic (band)|lt=TC Matic|af|TC Matic|nl|TC Matic|fr|TC Matic|es|TC Matic}} gives TC Matic – the text "TC Matic" now redlinks to "TC Matic (band)"
• {{ill|TC Matic|lt=TC Matic (band)|af|TC Matic|nl|TC Matic|fr|TC Matic|es|TC Matic}} gives TC Matic (band) – the text "TC Matic (band)" now links to "TC Matic" which exists

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Interlanguage link

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Tracking categories

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Redirects

After a merge discussion, five other templates were merged into this template, and thus this template contains all of their features.

• {{Interlanguage link}}
• {{Interlanguage link forced}}
• {{Interlanguage link multi}}
• {{Interlanguage link Wikidata}}
• {{Link-interwiki}}
• {{Red Wikidata link}} (all redirect to {{Interlanguage link}})