Template:LangSwitch/doc

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To view the template page itself, see Template:LangSwitch.

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Provides a method to present a string of text selected from an array of many language translations in the language set in the user's preferences or the most appropiate fallback language (as determined by {{GetFallback}}).

Usage

{{LangSwitch
 |en =
 |xx =
 |default =
}}

Template parameters

Parameter	Description		Default	Status
en	Text in English language. Unless default is used this text will also be used in case the languages provided do not include the language set in the user's preferences. If you do not want to show any text when user's language is English, then use "en=~". LangSwitch templates without en option will be added to Category:LangSwitch template without English version.		empty	required
xx	Translated text in language xx (The parameter name xx can be any supported language code, and you can specify as many such parameters as needed for each translated language). Use "~" if you do not want any message (or default) is some specific language.		empty	optional
default	Default text in case one of 'xx' languages is not the language of user’s preferences. By default english version will be shown, if provided.		{{{en|}}} (English version)	optional
lang	language code (only needs to be provided if the language shall be fixed and independent of the user’s preferences). Usually only used for template debugging.		value of {{int:Lang}} (the preferred language of the visitor viewing the page).	optional

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the Template namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: no user group specified

Relies on:
{{GetFallback}}, {{GetFallback2}}

See also

{{Autotranslate}}

Examples

Few examples showing template behavior for 3 languages: English, French and Corsu, which defaults to French if Corsu text is not available:

Test	Code	lang=en	lang=fr	lang=co
no En; default	{{LangSwitch|fr=French|default=default}}	default	French	default
no En ; no default	{{LangSwitch|fr=French|co=Corsu}}
En; default	{{LangSwitch|en=English|co=Corsu|default=default}}	English	default	Corsu
En; no default	{{LangSwitch|en=English|co=Corsu}}	English	English	Corsu
empty En; default	{{LangSwitch|en=~|fr=French|default=default}}		French	default
empty En; no default	{{LangSwitch|en=~|fr=French}}		French
En; default; empty Fr	{{LangSwitch|en=English|fr=~|co=Corsu|default=default}}	English		Corsu
En; default; empty Fr	{{LangSwitch|en=English|fr=|co=Corsu|default=default}}	English	default	Corsu
En; no default; empty Fr	{{LangSwitch|en=English|fr=~|co=Corsu}}	English		Corsu
simple case with "lang="	{{LangSwitch|en=English|fr=French|co=Corsu|default=default|lang=}}	English	English	English

The default option is intended for providing more language independent option. For example:

{{LangSwitch
|de=[[:de:Warschau|Warschau]]
|fr=[[:fr:Varsovie|Varsovie]]
|pl=[[:pl:Warszawa|Warszawa]]
|en=[[:en:Warsaw|Warsaw]]
|default=[[Warsaw]]
}}

will provide link to wikipedia articles in case one of the languages provided matches user's language but will link to Commons gallery page (Warsaw) if any other language is used.