Template:Multilingual link

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This template allows to create links to different language versions of same Wikipedia article, and only one link will be displayed.

This template employs some extremely complicated or esoteric features of template syntax. Please do not attempt to alter it unless you are certain that you understand the setup and are prepared to repair/revert any consequent collateral damage if the results are unexpected. Any experiments should be conducted in a sandbox or your userspace.

Usage

Main parameters

Just use ISO codes of languages as parameter names, and article names as parameter values.

For example, you can write
{{multilingual link
|ar=حركة الإنترنت
|el=Διαδικτυακή κυκλοφορία
|en=Internet traffic
|eo=Reta trafiko
|fr=Trafic Internet
|gl=Tráfico en Internet
|ko=인터넷 트래픽
|pl=Ruch internetowy
|ru=Сетевой трафик
|sl=Internetni promet (statistika)
|uk=Інтернет трафік
|uz=Tarmoq trafigi
|vi=Lưu lượng truy cập
}}
and the template will display just one link. Users with interface in one of the mentioned languages (Arabic, English, Esperanto, French, Galician, Greek, Korean, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese) will see the link to the article in their language; users with interface in another language will see the English link.

Default language

When default language is not indicated, default language is English (en) if it is present.

The code
{{multilingual link
|eo=David Mentelli
|hu=Mandelli Dávid
|ru=Ментелли, Давид
}}
will create a link for users with interface in Esperanto, Hungarian or Russian, but other users will see nothing because no default language is indicated.

But you can write
{{multilingual link
|eo=David Mentelli
|hu=Mandelli Dávid
|ru=Ментелли, Давид
|default=eo
}}
and other users (with interface not in Esperanto, Hungarian or Russian) will see the link in Esperanto. The value of the parameter default must be just ISO code, and version in the indicated language must be provided. If you use the parameter default but do not provide the name of article in the language of some user neither in the indicated default language (for example, you write |default=fr but do not fill the parameter fr), the template will display nothing for that user.

If you do not use the parameter default, be sure to have an English version (the parameter en). If the article has not an English version, be sure to use the parameter default. And if you use the parameter default, be sure to have also the parameter for the indicated default language (for example, if you write |default=de, the parameter de must be present).

If both parameters en and default are present, the parameter default takes precedence. For example, if you write
{{multilingual link
|en=MHSnet
|eo=.oz
|fr=.oz
|ru=.oz
|uk=.oz
}}
than users with interface in English, Esperanto, French, Russian or Ukrainian will see the link in their interface language, and all other users will see the link in English. But if you write
{{multilingual link
|en=MHSnet
|eo=.oz
|fr=.oz
|ru=.oz
|uk=.oz
|default=eo
}}
than users with interface in English, Esperanto, French, Russian or Ukrainian will see the link in their interface language, and all other users will see the link in Esperanto.

Displayed titles

By default, visible text of link is article name. It can be changed with parameters, whose names consist of the word title, space and ISO code of language. For example, if you write
{{multilingual link
|de=Scharfrichterhaus (Passau)
|en=Scharfrichterhaus
|zh=刽子手之家
}}
than all users will see just article names, but if you write
{{multilingual link
|de=Scharfrichterhaus (Passau)|title de=Scharfrichterhaus
|en=Scharfrichterhaus
|zh=刽子手之家
}}
than users with German language interface will see the title Scharfrichterhaus pointing to the article Scharfrichterhaus (Passau). Titles can be provided for many languages; for example, you can write
{{multilingual link
|de=The Octagon (Dunedin)|title de=The Octagon
|en=The Octagon, Dunedin|title en=The Octagon
|zh=八角广场 (但尼丁)|title zh=八角广场
}}
Also, you can provide one universal title for all languages; for example:
{{multilingual link
|en=NEC μCOM series
|it=Serie NEC μCOM
|ja=ΜCOMシリーズ
|title=NEC µPD780C
}}
If you use universal title (the parameter title), you can indicate the ISO code of its language in the parameter titlelang:
{{multilingual link
|en=Miss England I
|es=Miss England I
|fa=دوشیزه انگلستان اول
|it=Miss England I
|title=Miss England
|titlelang=en
}}

Design

By default, the template does not display language name. This behaviour can be changed with the parameter langdesign. Its values:

value	explanation	example
b	language name in bold letters	English:
bc	language name in bold capitalised letters	English:
bci	language name in bold capitalised italic letters	English:
bi	language name in bold italic letters	English:
c	language name in capitalised letters	English:
ci	language name in capitalised italic letters	English:
i	language name in italic letters	English:
normal	language name in normal letters	English:

Example:
{{multilingual link
|ceb=Mino Wan
|en=Miho Bay
|ja=美保湾
|ru=Михо (бухта)|title ru=бухта Михо
|langdesign=b
}}

Order of letters in the short values (bc, bci, bi and ci) can be any: cb is equal to bc, ib is equal to bi, et caetera. Any other value (foo, none, et caetera) is treated equally to normal: language name is displayed in normal letters. If you do not want to display language name, just do not use the parameter langdesign.

By default, link is displayed in normal letters. This behaviour can be changed with the parameter textdesign. It accepts the same short values as the parameter langdesign (see the above table). The value normal or any other value is equal to non-using the parameter textdesign: link is displayed in normal letters.

Syntax helper

The wikitext to call the template {{multilingual link}} can be long (sometimes hundreds of lines), writing such text is a tedious task. The Perl script Syntax helper creates such wikitext for you. For example, if you type ./syntaxhelper.perl en:Saint Petersburg State Agrarian University or ./syntaxhelper.perl Q1628690, it returns the wikitext
{{multilingual link
|be=Санкт-Пецярбургскі дзяржаўны аграрны ўніверсітэт
|en=Saint Petersburg State Agrarian University
|eo=Sankt-Peterburga Ŝtata Agrikultura Universitato
|et=Peterburi Riiklik Agraarülikool
|fr=Université agraire d'État de Saint-Pétersbourg
|ru=Санкт-Петербургский государственный аграрный университет
}}
and you just need to copy and past that wikitext. See the Syntax helper.