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Template:BEN

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Benin Benin

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Displays the name of a city or country.

By default, makes the name a label for a link which tries to point to Wikipedia's article in the preferred language, trying to fall back to a language as close as possible. If Wikipedia has no article, links to Wikidata.

Intended to be used for locations in Creator templates, Book templates, Institution templates etc.

Usage

{{BEN}}

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionDefaultStatus
1languageLanguage in which output is preferred, specified as its IETF BCP 47 language tag (generally ISO 639-1 language code). If the name in that language is unknown, the template falls back to another language. For example, "en" for English, "fr" for French or "vec" for Venetian.

If not specified, the preferred language is the MediaWiki session's.

emptyoptional
nolinkno link"nolink=1" will remove interwiki link to wikipedia articleemptyoptional

Additional information

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

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Relies on:
{{Label}}

See also

Localization

This template is localized by utilizing Wikidata, via {{Label}} template or similar approach.

Examples

{{BEN}} – Will display the location name in the language specified by user's preferences (English): Benin Benin
{{BEN|ar}} – Will always display the location name in Arabic: بنين بنين
{{BEN|de}} – Will always display the location name in German: Benin Benin
{{BEN|en}} – Will always display the location name in English: Benin Benin
{{BEN|fr}} – Will always display the location name in French: Bénin Bénin
{{BEN|it}} – Will always display the location name in Italian: Benin Benin
{{BEN|ja}} – Will always display the location name in Japanese: ベナン ベナン
{{BEN|pt|nolink=1}} – Will always display the location name, without link to Wikipedia, in Portuguese: Benim Benim
{{BEN|ru|nolink=1}} – Will always display the location name, without link to Wikipedia, in Russian: Бенин Бенин

Creation of new multilingual templates

Help page Help:Creating multilingual tags with interwiki links documents steps of creating multilingual templates.