Template:Interlanguage link multi/doc

Purpose

So long as the page on this wiki does not exist (i.e. is "a red link"), this template temporarily displays links to one or more corresponding non-English Wikipedia articles. The red link is explicitly shown, followed by the non-English link(s). Hovering over the language code of a non-English link will display the name of the article on the non-English Wikipedia. Once the English article is created, the non-English link(s) will not be shown.

Usage

There are several ways of using this template. It can produce links to one or more specific languages or to the Wikidata table of languages. There can also be a link to Magnus Manske's Reasonator Wikidata item viewer.

The shortcut {{illm}} may be used. Template:Columns-start

Link to specific languages

To link to specific languages, the parameters are:

{{illm|Article title in English Wikipedia|language1 code|title in language1 Wikipedia|language2 code|title in language2 Wikipedia|...}}

There can be 1 to 5 languages. For example:

• {{illm|Joke|fr|Blague|hu|Vicc|de|Witz}}

Since the article Joke exists, this displays:

• Joke

precisely the same as [[Joke]]. However, since Jokery does not exist

• {{illm|Jokery|fr|Blague|hu|Vicc|de|Witz}}

displays:

• Jokery

If the article title on the foreign language Wikipedia is left blank, the English language name will be used. For example, if Charles Darwin did not exist

• {{illm|Charles Darwin|fr||de||es|}}

would link to the French, German and Spanish articles of the same title.

Note The template halts as soon as a blank language code is found. Thus {{illm|Carolus Darwin|fr|Charles Darwin|||es|Charles Darwin|de|Charles Darwin}} would only output a link to the French Wikipedia. Template:Column

Link to the Wikidata table of languages

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

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

All links to other Wikipedias are ignored if |WD= is present. Thus since Jokery does not exist

• {{illm|Jokery|WD=Q131138}}

outputs

• Jokery

Link to Reasonator

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
{{illm|Jokery|WD=Q131138|reasonator=1}}	Jokery
{{illm|Jokery|reasonator=1}}	Jokery

Forcing links

If interlanguage/Wikidata/Reasonator links are to be displayed even if the English Wikipedia article exists, add any of the values 1, y, yes or force for the parameter |display=.

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

Piped links

A "piped link" in the English Wikipedia (as in [[Charles Darwin (botanist)|Charles Darwin]]) can be created by using |lt= for the visible link text. Thus since Charles Darwin (botanist) does not exist

• {{illm|Charles Darwin (botanist)|lt=Charles Darwin|fr|Charles Darwin|de|Charles Darwin|es|Charles Darwin}}

displays

• Charles Darwin

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

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
'''{{illm|Charles Darwin (botanist)|fr|Charles Darwin|de|Charles Darwin}}'''	Charles Darwin (botanist)
'''{{illm|nobold=1|Charles Darwin (botanist)|fr|Charles Darwin|de|Charles Darwin}}'''	Charles Darwin (botanist)

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

Examples

• {{illm|TC Matic|af|TC Matic|nl|TC Matic|fr|TC Matic|es|TC Matic}} gives TC Matic, because TC Matic exists here
• {{illm|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
• {{illm|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
• {{illm|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)"
• {{illm|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

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Interlanguage link multi in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Interlanguage link multi

Link to other Wikipedias or Wikidata if an article in the English Wikipedia doesn't exist.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Article name	1	Name of the English Wikipedia page, or suggested name if the page does not exist	Page name	required
Wikidata item	WD	Wikidata item of the article. Replaces links to pages in other languages	Line	suggested
Reasonator	reasonator	If anything is set for this, there is a link to the Reasonator page for the Wikidata item (if there is a link to an item) or to a Reasonator search for the English Wikipedia article title (if there is no item link)	String	optional
Link text	lt	Text displayed for the link to the English Wikipedia article, if not the same as the article title Default English Wikipedia article title	Line	optional
Preserve	preserve display	If anything is set for this, forces links to pages in other languages and projects to always display even if the English Wikipedia article exists	String	optional
No bold (or italic)	nobold	Forces links to other-language pages, Wikidata and Reasonator and the link brackets to have non-bold or -italic text	String	optional
1st language code	2	Language code for the 1st page in another language	Line	suggested
1st page	3	Title of the page in the 1st other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page Default English Wikipedia article title	Line	suggested
2nd language code	4	Language code for the 2nd page in another language	Line	optional
2nd page	5	Title of the page in the 2nd other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page Default English Wikipedia article title	Line	optional
3rd language code	6	Language code for the 3rd page in another language	Line	optional
3rd page	7	Title of the page in the 3rd other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page Default English Wikipedia article title Auto value	Line	optional
4th language code	8	Language code for the 4th page in another language	Line	optional
4th page	9	Title of the page in the 4th other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page Default English Wikipedia article title	Line	optional
5th language code	10	Language code for the 5th page in another language	Line	optional
5th page	11	Title of the page in the 5th other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page Default English Wikipedia article title	Line	optional

See also

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