Template:West Flanders
Displays the name of a city or country.
By default, makes the name a label for a link which tries to point to Wikipedia's article in the preferred language, trying to fall back to a language as close as possible. If Wikipedia has no article, links to Wikidata.
Intended to be used for locations in Creator templates, Book templates, Institution templates etc.
Usage
{{West Flanders}}
Template parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | language | Language in which output is preferred, specified as its IETF BCP 47 language tag (generally ISO 639-1 language code). If the name in that language is unknown, the template falls back to another language. For example, "en" for English, "fr" for French or "vec" for Venetian.
If not specified, the preferred language is the MediaWiki session's. | empty | optional |
nolink | no link | "nolink=1" will remove interwiki link to wikipedia article | empty | optional |
Additional information
The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: all namespaces
The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users
Relies on:
{{Label}}
See also
Localization
This template is localized by utilizing Wikidata, via {{Label}} template or similar approach.
Examples
{{West Flanders}}– Will display the location name in the language specified by user's preferences (English): West Flanders{{West Flanders|ar}}– Will always display the location name in Arabic: فلاندرز الغربية{{West Flanders|de}}– Will always display the location name in German: Westflandern{{West Flanders|en}}– Will always display the location name in English: West Flanders{{West Flanders|fr}}– Will always display the location name in French: Flandre-Occidentale{{West Flanders|it}}– Will always display the location name in Italian: Fiandre Occidentali{{West Flanders|ja}}– Will always display the location name in Japanese: ウェスト＝フランデレン州{{West Flanders|pt|nolink=1}}– Will always display the location name, without link to Wikipedia, in Portuguese: Flandres Ocidental{{West Flanders|ru|nolink=1}}– Will always display the location name, without link to Wikipedia, in Russian: Западная Фландрия
Creation of new multilingual templates
Help page Help:Creating multilingual tags with interwiki links documents steps of creating multilingual templates.