Template:Countries of the Americas
Other areas: Anguilla · Bermuda · British Virgin Islands · Cayman Islands · Dutch Caribbean · Falkland Islands · Florida Keys · French Guiana · Greenland · Guadeloupe · Martinique · Montserrat · Puerto Rico · Saint Martin · Saint Pierre and Miquelon · South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands · Turks and Caicos Islands · United States Virgin Islands
This documentation is transcluded from Template:Countries of Africa/doc.
Displays a navigation box with links to similar galleries or categories for every country in a region. Links to existing pages are displayed using country names in the current user's language. Country names are obtained from Wikidata. If the name of a country is incorrect, find the country in this list and use the link in the Item column to check what changes have occurred at Wikidata.
Usage[edit]
{{Countries of the Americas|prefix=:Namespace:Prefix text|suffix=suffix text}}
Template parameters[edit]
| Parameter | Description | Default | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
prefix |
Text inserted before the English country name for each link. | empty | optional |
suffix |
Text added after the English country name for each link. | empty | optional |
sep |
Separator between prefix and name, and between name and suffix. | space | optional |
simple |
For some templates, |simple=yes simplifies the output, omitting some smaller territories. |
empty | optional |
all |
Use |all=yes for a temporary test to show all links without testing for their existence; will show red links. |
empty | optional |
nocat |
Use |nocat=yes for a demonstration where a template with invalid parameters should not output a tracking category. |
empty | optional |
Templates and country data[edit]
The following templates are implemented by Module:Countries:
For example, {{Countries of Africa}} contains:
{{#invoke:Countries|main|Africa}}
The parameter Africa means data from Module:Countries/Africa is used. Changes to the countries or the text displayed are made in the data module.
Before updating the main data module, changes should be made in the sandbox data module and tested with the sandbox template.
Examples[edit]
{{Countries of Africa|prefix=:Category:Maps of}}
Other areas: Azawad · Ceuta · Melilla · Mayotte · Puntland · Réunion · Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha · Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic · Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean · Somaliland · Western Sahara
{{Countries of Europe|prefix=:Category:Churches in|suffix=by architectural style}}
Specific status: – Limited recognition:
{{Countries of Europe|prefix=:Category:Euro coins (|suffix=)|sep=}}
The above would generate links such as Category:Euro coins (Austria), currently unused.
{{Countries of Oceania/sandbox|prefix=:Category:}}
Other areas: Cook Islands · New Caledonia · Niue
{{Countries of Oceania/sandbox|prefix=:Category:|all=yes}}
Other areas: the Cook Islands | Cook Islands · New Caledonia · Niue
Errors[edit]
If an invalid parameter is used, an error message is displayed when an edit to the page is previewed. If a page with an error is saved, no message is displayed but the page is added to a hidden error tracking category: Category:Countries template with invalid parameters.
The following example misspells suffix. For this demonstration, no tracking category is added because |nocat=yes is used.
{{Countries of Europe|prefix=:Category:Churches in|sufix=by architectural style}}
Specific status: Gibraltar · Guernsey · Isle of Man · Jersey – Limited recognition: Abkhazia · Kosovo · Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus · South Ossetia · Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
Previewing an edit with the above template shows the result and a message:
Error: invalid parameter "|sufix=by architectural style"
