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This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS. |
This template uses Lua: |
This template is used to indicate to readers that an external link is in a foreign language.
It should generally be placed after the external link, although this is not set in stone; for more information, see the Manual of Style. English is the default language, and does not need to be noted using this template, unless there is a reason the reader would assume the link to be in a foreign language (e.g. a foreign title).
For citations, the |language=
parameter of the various citation templates (((cite web))
, ((cite news))
, ((cite journal))
, etc.) should be used instead.
To note a span of text in a different language, ((lang))
or one of the ((lang-x))
templates (((lang-fr))
, ((lang-ast))
, etc.) should be used instead.
((link language|<language code>)) ((link language|<language code>|cat-lang=<language name>))
The language code is usually an ISO 639 code but it may be any valid IETF language tag. Note that language codes do not always coincide with country codes; see the list of ISO 3166-1 codes. The language name displayed is obtained via ((#invoke:Lang|name_from_tag))
which uses the following data:
Articles using this template are automatically added to a language-specific hidden category. For example, an article using ((in lang|fr))
is added to Category:Articles with French-language external links. The |cat-lang=
parameter may be used in cases where the language name displayed is different from the language name in the category.
((link language|fr))
ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 code for Asturian:
((link language|ast))
IETF language tag code for Brazilian Portuguese:
((link language|pt-BR))
((in lang|bla|cat-lang=Blackfoot))
→ (in Blackfoot)
((in lang|ilo|cat-lang=Ilocano))
→ (in Ilocano)
((in lang|ksh|cat-lang=Colognian))
→ (in Kölsch)
((in lang|nan|cat-lang=Min-nan))
→ (in Min Nan Chinese)
((in lang|prs|cat-lang=Persian))
→ (in Dari)
Logged in users can change the appearance of the template's output using CSS with the languageicon
class. For example, edit Special:MyPage/common.css and add span.languageicon { font-weight: bold; }
. That would result in ((link language|fr))
being displayed as (in French) instead of (in French).
TemplateData for Link language
Displays a language name based on an ISO 639 code, often used after a foreign language reference following the manual of style.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
language code | 1 | The ISO 639 language code or IETF language tag, e.g. 'fr' for French, 'pt-BR' for Brazilian Portuguese | String | required |
((xx icon))
(e.g. ((fr icon)), ((ast icon))), descending from this one, are listed in Category:Language icon templates.((xx icon))
template.