Template:Languages/doc

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.

See Project:Language policy for further details about translating pages.

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 use the appropriate prefix, as used on Wikipedia when adding a new language. 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).

The link on the language names goes to the Wikipedia in that language. If no Wikipedia in your language exists, do not add pages in that language to MediaWiki.org! This wiki is not the place for language advocacy - please go through the correct channels, and once your language has a Wikipedia then please return to add content here.

Page Name	Language	PS4
Main Page	English	Yes
Main Page/af	Afrikaans	No
Main Page/ar	Arabic	No
Main Page/az	Azerbaijani	No
Main Page/bcc	Southern Balochi	No
Main Page/bg	Bulgarian	No
Main Page/br	Breton	No
Main Page/ca	Catalan	No
Main Page/ce	Chechen	No
Main Page/cs	Czech	No
Main Page/da	Danish	Yes
Main Page/de	German	Yes
Main Page/el	Greek	No
Main Page/es	Spanish	Yes
Main Page/fa	Persian	No
Main Page/fi	Finnish	Yes
Main Page/fr	French	Yes
Main Page/gl	Galician	No
Main Page/gu	Gujarati	No
Main Page/he	Hebrew	No
Main Page/hu	Hungarian	No
Main Page/id	Indonesian	No
Main Page/it	Italian	Yes
Main Page/ja	Japanese	Yes
Main Page/ka	Georgian	No
Main Page/ko	Korean	Yes
Main Page/ksh	Kölsch	No
Main Page/mk	Macedonian	No
Main Page/ml	Malayalam	No
Main Page/mr	Marathi	No
Main Page/ms	Malay	No
Main Page/nl	Nederlands	Yes
Main Page/no	Norwegian	Yes
Main Page/oc	Occitan	No
Main Page/pl	Polish	Yes
Main Page/pt	Portuguese	Yes
Main Page/pt-br	Brazilian Portuguese	Yes
Main Page/ro	Romanian	No
Main Page/ru	Russian	Yes
Main Page/si	Sinhalese	No
Main Page/sk	Slovak	No
Main Page/sq	Albanian	No
Main Page/sr	Serbian	No
Main Page/sv	Swedish	Yes
Main Page/ta	Tamil	No
Main Page/th	Thai	No
Main Page/tr	Turkish	Yes
Main Page/uk	Ukrainian	No
Main Page/vi	Vietnamese	No
Main Page/yue	Cantonese	No
Main Page/zh	Chinese	No
Main Page/zh-hans	Chinese (Simplified)	Yes
Main Page/zh-hant	Chinese (Traditional)	Yes
Main Page/zh-tw	Chinese (Taiwan)	No

Example

Here is how the language bar looks on the Main page:

Language:	English

And here is how the language bar looks on User talk:Euss :