Template:Wq

Africa

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Inserts a localized Wikipedia link (or only target title) from a given Wikidata entity.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Entity ID	1	Wikidata item identifier Example Q15	String	required
Link label	2	Link text, if you don’t want to use localized entity label from Wikidata. Example cradle of humanity	String	optional
Target language code	lang	Short language code identifying the Wikipedia to which the link should lead. Defaults to the language of the current page. Example fr	String	optional
Do not format as link	nolink	If set, only return the target page title instead of a wikilink. Ever true if you use {{Wq-}} template. Example 1	Boolean	optional

Examples

• {{wq|Q15}} will render as “Africa” in English page, and as “Afrique” in French page.
• {{wq-|Q15}} will render as “ :en:Africa” in English page, and as “ :fr:Afrique” in French page.
• [[{{wq-|Q15}}|continent]] will render as “continent” in English page, and as “continent” in French page.

See also

• {{wd}}: same behavior as {{wq-}}, but uses user interface language instead of page language; and ever use the same fallback chain instead of linking to actually available Wikipedia pages.
• {{lwp}}: same behavior as {{wq}}, but takes a Wikipedia article title as input, instead of Wikidata element Id.
• {{label}}: gets the localized label of a Wikidata item.
• {{Wda}}: gets any property and value from Wikidata through complex request.

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