Template:Languages/sandbox

This is the template sandbox page for Template:Languages (diff).

Template documentation

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This template is mostly obsolete and should be replaced with <languages/> when possible (i.e. for translatable pages).

Syntax

{{Languages|PageName}}

PageName (optional) – the name of the page to display language links for. If omitted then the English version of the current page is used. This parameter can normally be omitted, as it is only required if you want to link to a page other than the one you place the template on, which is very uncommon. If this parameter is used on a sub-page make sure you supply the root name, not the full page name (e.g. on MediaWiki/fr you would need to use {{Languages|MediaWiki}} and not {{Languages|MediaWiki/fr}}).

Usage

The template should only be placed on pages that exist in more than one language, and it should be placed in the same location on each translation of the page.

The English version of a page is always the main version, with all other languages as sub-pages, named using the appropriate language code (see below).

For example, on the Main Page you would include the text {{Languages}}, both on Main Page itself, and on each of its language sub-pages. The template automatically creates links to any language sub-pages that exist, e.g. Main Page/ja, Main Page/fr, and ignores non-existant languages.

See Meta:Translate extension for further details about translating pages.

Supported languages

Special:SiteMatrix shows you the code and name of each supported language. Other languages may be added easily to the template as necessary. If no Wikimedia project in your language exists, do not add pages in that language to Meta-Wiki.

Known issues

The template uses #ifexist parser function to check whether each translation page exists. Unfortunately, #ifexist unexpectedly populates WhatLinksHere: so all missing translation pages are wrongly listed at Special:WhatLinksHere.
#ifexist is also an expensive parser function; so using this template increases the chance the page exceeds the limit.