Template:W/doc

This template simplifies linking to Wikipedia articles.

Usage

{{w|Wikipedia article name|link text|language code}}</nowiki>, where

• Wikipedia article name is the name of the article in Wikipedia that the link should point to, and is the only mandatory parameter.
• link text is the link text (any arbitrary text except the characters | and =; if such characters need to be present in the text, replace them with {{!}} and {{}}, respectively. If this parameter is not given, Wikipedia article name will be shown as link text
• language code is a language code of the Wikipedia edition in a specific language (in the vast majority of cases, it would be the ISO 639-1 language code). If this parameter is not given, the link would point to the English-language Wikipedia.

Examples

{{w|Wi-Fi}} produces a link to the "Wi-Fi" article in English-language Wikipedia: Wi-Fi

{{w|Wi-Fi|this technology}} links to the same article ("Wi-Fi"), but the link text is not "Wi-Fi" but rather "this technology": this technology

{{w|Wi-Fi||de}} produces a link to the article about Wi-Fi in Gegman-language Wikipedia: Wi-Fi. Note that the 2nd parameter is omitted, so the link text would be the same as the 1st parameter (i.e., "Wi-Fi").

See also

• {{WPLink}} – links to Wikipedia, and says that explicitly: for example, {{WPLink|Wi-Fi}} shows this: Wi-Fi on Wikipedia