Template:Languages

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Template

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

See Project:Language policy for further details about translating pages.

Supported languages

This shows you the name of each language's sub-page (using SacredWiki as an example). Other languages may be added easily as necessary. Please use the appropriate prefix, as used on Wikipedia when adding a new language. Please do not add languages for which no pages exist yet, as this will increase the time needed to include the template without adding any benefit (languages are only displayed to the user when the relevant page exists).

The link on the language names goes to the Wikipedia in that language. If no Wikipedia in your language exists, do not add pages in that language to MediaWiki.org! This wiki is not the place for language advocacy - please go through the correct channels, and once your language has a Wikipedia then please return to add content here.

Page Name Language
SacredWiki English
SacredWiki/af Afrikaans
SacredWiki/ar Arabic
SacredWiki/az Azerbaijani
SacredWiki/bcc Southern Balochi
SacredWiki/bg Bulgarian
SacredWiki/br Breton
SacredWiki/ca Catalan
SacredWiki/cs Czech
SacredWiki/da Danish
SacredWiki/de German
SacredWiki/el Greek
SacredWiki/es Spanish
SacredWiki/fa Persian
SacredWiki/fi Finnish
SacredWiki/fr French
SacredWiki/gl Galician
SacredWiki/gu Gujarati
SacredWiki/he Hebrew
SacredWiki/hu Hungarian
SacredWiki/id Indonesian
SacredWiki/it Italian
SacredWiki/ja Japanese
SacredWiki/ko Korean
SacredWiki/ksh Kölsch
SacredWiki/mr Marathi
SacredWiki/ms Malay
SacredWiki/nl Nederlands
SacredWiki/no Norwegian
SacredWiki/oc Occitan
SacredWiki/pl Polish
SacredWiki/pt Portugese
SacredWiki/ro Romanian
SacredWiki/ru Russian
SacredWiki/si Sinhalese
SacredWiki/sk Slovak
SacredWiki/sq Albanian
SacredWiki/sr Serbian
SacredWiki/sv Swedish
SacredWiki/th Thai
SacredWiki/tr Turkish
SacredWiki/uk Ukrainian
SacredWiki/vi Vietnamese
SacredWiki/yue Cantonese
SacredWiki/zh Chinese
SacredWiki/zh-hans Chinese (Simplified)
SacredWiki/zh-hant Chinese (Traditional)

Example

Here is how the language bar looks on the MediaWiki page: