Template:GeoName/doc

This documentation page is to be used for location tag templates in Category:Multilingual tags: Locations.

This documentation subpage contains instructions, categories, or other information for technical reasons.
To view the Template page itself, see .

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

{{LOCATION}}

Parameters

Parameter name	Description	Default value	required or optional?
parameter #1 (1)	{{LOCATION|xx}} – (where xx is ISO 639-2 language code) for output in the specified language.	empty	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

See also

{{City}}, Category:Multilingual tags: Locations

Localization

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

Examples

{{LOCATION}} – Will display the location name in the language specified by user's preferences: (Rendered)

{{LOCATION|de}} – Will always display the location name in German: (Rendered)

{{LOCATION|ru}} – Will always display the location name in Russian: (Rendered)

{{LOCATION|ar}} – Will always display the location name in Arabic: (Rendered)