Commons:Templates for galleries

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This page offers language templates for pretty gallery page descriptions. See Commons:Language policy for more information about multilingual descriptions of content, for discussing this issue see Commons talk:Language policy.

You can simply use the ISO 639 code of your language (the same as the subdomain of the Wikipedia in your language, so en for English, de for German etc.) as template name. The first and only parameter of the template must be the whole text that is in the specific language.

[edit] For example a description section could look like this:

{{de|Eine '''Beschreibung''' ist ein Text, der die Eigenschaften eines Texts spezifiziert.}}
{{en|A '''description''' is a text that specifies the properties of an object.}}

[edit] This renders as:

Using templates instead of manual captions (i.e. writing '''en:''') is preferred because it is possible to use CSS to "hide" languages a person doesn't understand. This can reduce the amount of unnecessary information and visual clutter.

If you don't know the code of your language, you can look up it in the list: