Template:W/documentation

This template is for having shorter links to an English Wikipedia article when the link is identical to its label. It takes the following parameters:

• |1= – the page title on Wikipedia to which you wish to link
• |2= – the text that the template displays. Default is the value entered in |1=
• |lang= – the ISO language code of the target Wikipedia. Default is en, for English.

A similar effect can be accomplished using the pipe trick: [[w:Chicken|]] is converted to [[w:Chicken|Chicken]] during the pre-save transform, which renders as Chicken. Only one interwiki prefix can be stripped in this way. [[w:fr:Académie française|]] transforms to [[w:fr:Académie française|fr:Académie française]].

See also Template:wikipedia, which inserts a box with a link to the Wikipedia article, and has no required parameters.

Examples

• just using parameter 1 – {{w|The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire}} gives: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• using parameters 1 and 2 – {{w|William Shakespeare|Shakespeare}} gives: Shakespeare
• also using parameter lang – {{w|William Shakespeare|Shakespeare|lang=fr}} gives: Shakespeare (linking to the French Wikipedia article)

Notes

Because of its simplicity, the template can be substituted using subst:

• {{subst:w|William Shakespeare|Shakespeare}} gives: [[w:William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]

However, substituting {{subst:w|The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire}} gives an unwieldy duplication of content the template is here to avoid in the first place: [[w:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:W in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for W

<templatedata> { "params": { "1": { "label": "article", "description": "Page to link on Wikipedia", "example": "Cursive script (East Asia)", "type": "line", "required": true }, "2": { "label": "label", "description": "Text displayed on the link", "example": "cursive script", "type": "line", "suggested": true }, "lang": { "label": "language code", "type": "string", "example": "es", "description": "the ISO language code of the target Wikipedia.", "default": "en" } }, "format": "inline", "description": "This template is for having shorter links to an English Wikipedia article when the link is identical to its label. It had one mandatory parameter. There is a similar one without any mandatory parameter Template:Wikipedia" } </templatedata>