Template:Wiktionarylang

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This template may be used to add boxed material with a link to a foreign language Wiktionary page. See Help:Interwiki linking for recommendations about when to use links to sister projects.

Usage

{{wiktionarylang|lang-code|pagename|link text|text to append}}

Placement

{{#section-h:Template:Wiktionary/doc|Placement}}

Parameters

This template has six parameters, four positional and two named:

• |1= the language code for a Wiktionary, e.g. de for German, es for Spanish, etc. Optional; defaults to fr.
• |2= the wiktionary page to link to. If absent, takes the pagename of the article where it is transcluded (only appropriate for cognates).
• |3= the link text to display instead of instead of displaying 2 (i.e., pipe text). Optional.
• |4= text to append; e.g., '(in Portuguese)'. Optional.
• |position= may be set to left; see {{side box#Parameters}} for more info. Optional; default: right-floated.
• |context= Use paragraph, section, table, etc. to substitute into the expression "this article". Optional; default: "article".

Details

• If neither 2 nor 3 are specified, the article pagename will be used.

See also

• Help:Interwiki linking
• {{Wiktionary}}
• {{Wikisource}}
• {{Wikisourcelang}}—like this template, but designed for terms in foreign language Wikisource sites
• {{wiktionary-inline}}—to create a list of sources on Wiktionary among other options
• {{User Wiktionary}}—a Wikipedia userbox
• {{Wiktionary redirect}}—a specialized template for redirecting to Wiktionary
• Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects—for full usage information and background
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sister projects#Wiktionary—for full usage information

Template data

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TemplateData for Wiktionarylang

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Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Language code	1	ISO 639 language code (2 or 3 letters) representing which language the text is in Example 'en', 'zh', 'fr', 'enm', 'la', 'sco', 'es'	String	optional
Wiktionary entry	2	Page to link to on foreign Wiktionary Example élève	String	optional
Text displayed	3	Text displayed, if different from the term being linked to	String	optional
Text to append	4	Any text to append to the boxed material Example (see noun sense 3)	String	optional
Position	position	Where to place the box Example left	String	optional
Context	context	Context for this the term within the article (section, paragraph, etc.) Example section	String	optional

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