Template:VGB

 British Virgin Islands

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Name of city or country translated to user's language and with links to Wikipedia articles in user's language. Intended to be used for locations in Creator templates, Book templates, Institution templates etc.

Usage

{{VGB}}

Template parameters

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TemplateData

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Existing template documentation
At Wikimedia Commons, it is recommended to use {{TemplateBox}} with either ‎useTemplateData=1 or ‎useTemplateData=only on the ‎/doc subpage and transcluding it with {{Documentation}} into the template. ‎<nowiki>-tags can be wrapped around the arguments, if required, to avoid templates being expanded.

Newly created template documentation and imports
Another option, especially for imported templates, or for users with JSON experience, is placing raw ‎<templatedata>-tags into the Wikitext of the template, as described in various Wikipediae.

Discussion
There is an ongoing discussion about that matter. Feel invited to comment if you are experienced in either way, your time permits and if you like to share your opinion or to make a suggestion.

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Name of city or country translated to user's language and with links to Wikipedia articles in user's language. Intended to be used for locations in Creator templates, Book templates, Institution templates etc.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
language	1	{{VGB|xx}} (where xx is BCP 47/ISO 639 language code) for output in the specified language.	Line	optional
no link	nolink	"nolink=1" will remove interwiki link to wikipedia article	Line	optional

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:
{{LangSwitch}}

See also

• {{City}}
• Category:Multilingual tags: Locations
• {{Multilingual link}}

Localization

To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please edit the template and add a row to the "{{LangSwitch|}}" construct. It takes the form "|xx= Your translation " (xx being the code of your language)

Examples

{{VGB}} – Will display the location name in the language specified by user's preferences (English):  British Virgin Islands

{{VGB|ar}} – Will always display the location name in Arabic:  جزر العذراء البريطانية

{{VGB|de}} – Will always display the location name in German:  Britische Jungferninseln

{{VGB|en}} – Will always display the location name in English:  British Virgin Islands

{{VGB|fr}} – Will always display the location name in French:  îles Vierges britanniques

{{VGB|it}} – Will always display the location name in Italian:  Isole Vergini Britanniche

{{VGB|ja}} – Will always display the location name in Japanese:  イギリス領ヴァージン諸島

{{VGB|pt|nolink=1}} – Will always display the location name, without link to Wikipedia, in Portuguese:  Ilhas Virgens Britânicas

{{VGB|ru|nolink=1}} – Will always display the location name, without link to Wikipedia, in Russian:  Британские Виргинские острова

Creation of new multilingual templates

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