How-to add foreign language pages
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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 Main Page you would include the text {{Languages}}, both on Main Page itself, and on each of its language sub-pages. The template automatically creates links to any language sub-pages that exist, e.g. Main Page/ja, Main Page/fr, and ignores non-existant languages.
Supported languages
This shows you the name of each language's sub-page (using Main Page as an example). Other languages may be added easily as necessary. 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).
| Page Name | Language |
|---|---|
| Main Page | English |
| Main Page/af | Afrikaans |
| Main Page/ar | Arabic |
| Main Page/az | Azerbaijani |
| Main Page/bcc | Southern Balochi |
| Main Page/bg | Bulgarian |
| Main Page/br | Breton |
| Main Page/ca | Catalan |
| Main Page/ce | Chechen |
| Main Page/cs | Czech |
| Main Page/da | Danish |
| Main Page/de | German |
| Main Page/el | Greek |
| Main Page/eo | Esperanto |
| Main Page/es | Spanish |
| Main Page/fa | Persian |
| Main Page/fi | Finnish |
| Main Page/fr | French |
| Main Page/gl | Galician |
| Main Page/gu | Gujarati |
| Main Page/he | Hebrew |
| Main Page/hu | Hungarian |
| Main Page/id | Indonesian |
| Main Page/it | Italian |
| Main Page/ja | Japanese |
| Main Page/ka | Georgian |
| Main Page/ko | Korean |
| Main Page/ksh | Kölsch |
| Main Page/ku | Kurdish |
| Main Page/mk | Macedonian |
| Main Page/ml | Malayalam |
| Main Page/mr | Marathi |
| Main Page/ms | Malay |
| Main Page/nl | Dutch |
| Main Page/no | Norwegian |
| Main Page/oc | Occitan |
| Main Page/af | Pashto |
| Main Page/pl | Polish |
| Main Page/pt | Portuguese |
| Main Page/pt-br | Português brasileiro, Brazilian Portuguese |
| Main Page/ro | Romanian |
| Main Page/ru | Russian |
| Main Page/si | Sinhalese |
| Main Page/sl | Slovene |
| Main Page/sk | Slovak |
| Main Page/sq | Albanian |
| Main Page/sr | Serbian |
| Main Page/sv | Swedish |
| Main Page/ta | Tamil |
| Main Page/th | Thai |
| Main Page/tr | Turkish |
| Main Page/uk | Ukrainian |
| Main Page/vi | Vietnamese |
| Main Page/yue | Cantonese |
| Main Page/zh | Chinese |
| Main Page/zh-hans | Chinese (Simplified) |
| Main Page/zh-hant | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Main Page/zh-tw | Chinese (Taiwan) |
Example
This is how the language menu looks on the Bus Pirate self-test guide page:
| Language: | English • Español • Français • Русский |
|---|
The English version of the page has:
{{Languages}}
inserted at the top of the page and the Russian version of the page is named
Bus_Pirate_self-test_guide/ru
(see the table of supported languages above to determine how to name your foreign language page with the correct /[code] suffix after the English page name) and has:
{{Languages|Bus_Pirate_self-test_guide}}
inserted at the top of the page. Notice you need to include the full English name of the page in the foreign language page. If you do not do this, the only language listed will be English.