Template:LangSwitch

Template documentation

Provides a method to present a string of text selected from an array of many language translations in the language set in the user's preferences or the most appropiate fallback language (as determined by {{GetFallback}}).

Usage

{{LangSwitch
|en=
|xx=
|default=
}}

Parameters

Parameter name	Description	Default value	required or optional?
en	Text in English language. Unless default option is used, this text will also be used if the languages provided do not include the language set in the user's preferences. If you do not want to show any text when the user's language is English, then use "en=~". LangSwitch templates without an en option will be added to Category:LangSwitch template without English version.	empty	required
xx	Translated text in language xx (the parameter name xx can be any supported language code, and you can specify as many such parameters as needed for each translated language). Use "~" if you do not want any message (or default) in some specific language.	empty	optional
default	Default text in case one of the 'xx' languages is not the language of user’s preferences. By default, the English version will be shown, if provided.	{{{en|}}} (English version)	optional
lang	language code (only needs to be provided if the language displayed is to be fixed and independent of the user’s preferences).	Value of {{int:Lang}} (the preferred language of the visitor viewing the page)	optional
nocat	"nocat=1" will overwrite the default behavior of adding Category:LangSwitch template without English version to pages with no "en" and "default" options.	empty	optional

Additional information

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

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: no user group specified

Relies on:
{{GetFallback}}, {{GetFallback2}}

See also

• {{autotranslate}}
• {{Translation table}}
• Category:Internationalization templates using LangSwitch

Examples

Here are a few examples showing template behavior for three languages: English, French and Corsu, which defaults to French if Corsu text is not available:

Test	Code	lang=en	lang=fr	lang=co
No En; default	{{LangSwitch|fr=French|default=default}}	default	French	French
No En ; no default	{{LangSwitch|fr=French|co=Corsu}}		French	Corsu
En; default	{{LangSwitch|en=English|co=Corsu|default=default}}	English	default	Corsu
En; no default	{{LangSwitch|en=English|co=Corsu}}	English	English	Corsu
Empty En; default	{{LangSwitch|en=~|fr=French|default=default}}		French	French
Empty En; no default	{{LangSwitch|en=~|fr=French}}		French	French
En; default; empty Fr	{{LangSwitch|en=English|fr=~|co=Corsu|default=default}}	English		Corsu
En; default; empty Fr	{{LangSwitch|en=English|fr=|co=Corsu|default=default}}	English	default	Corsu
En; no default; empty Fr	{{LangSwitch|en=English|fr=~|co=Corsu}}	English		Corsu
Simple case with "lang="	{{LangSwitch|en=English|fr=French|co=Corsu|default=default|lang=}}	default	default	default

The default option is intended for providing more language independent option. For example:

{{LangSwitch
|de=[[:de:Warschau|Warschau]]
|en=[[:en:Warsaw|Warsaw]]
|fr=[[:fr:Varsovie|Varsovie]]
|ja=[[:ja:Warsaw|ワルシャワ]]
|pl=[[:pl:Warszawa|Warszawa]]
|default=[[Warsaw]]
}}

will provide link to Wikipedia articles in case one of the languages provided matches user's language but will link to Commons gallery page (Warsaw) if any other language is used.