Template:Linktext

This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS.

For linking from one Wikimedia project to another (e.g. Wikipedia to Wiktionary), see Help:Interwikimedia links.

The {{Linktext}} template creates inline links for text within the template's parameters. Each word separately links to a page with a title that matches that word on Wiktionary, by default, or on any other interwiki or interlanguage Wikipedias.

Interlanguage links in general are links from a page in one Wikipedia in one language to a page in another Wikipedia in another language.

Usage

The default target that this template links to is Wiktionary. To change the target, set the parameter pref to some other value. For example, "c" for commons, or "th" for Thai Wikipedia. Thus, in order to link to a foreign language Wiktionary, set to "wikt:de" or whatever {{lang}} code.

Use the arguments n1, n2, n3, etc. to specify items that should not be linked. Regular spaces will be removed from the beginning and end of these; if you must have spaces, use   instead.

If you want to have a delimiter, such as ", ", appear between links, specify the delimiter with lim.

If desired, you can specify the language code with lang (rationale explained here). This is not required if Template:Linktext is used inside a template that specifies the language, such as Template:Zh.

Note: Do not add this template everywhere. For some reason, this template is frequently used in articles containing CJK terms, but this is not recommended. Use this template only when a link to Wiktionary is really needed.

Examples

{{Linktext|This|is|a| test}}

Thisisa test

{{Linktext|This|is|n2= not|a| test}}

Thisis nota test

The following links to the German Wiktionary:

{{Linktext|Das | Ewig-Weibliche| zieht| uns |hinan|pref=wikt:de}}

Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan

Also can be used to wikt-link individual Chinese characters:

{{linktext|雲|居|道|膺}}

雲居道膺

Examples of result of specifying "lang" (differences in characters explained here and here):

{{Linktext|雲|緑|lang=ja}}

雲緑

{{Linktext|雲|緑|lang=zh}}

雲緑

See also

• {{Interlanguage link}}
• {{Sister project}}
• {{Sister-inline}}
• Help:Contents/Links
• Help:Interwikimedia links
• Help:Interlanguage links
• Wikipedia:List of templates linking to other free content projects
• Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects
• Category:Interwiki link templates
• meta:List of Wikipedias
• m:Interwiki map
• Wikipedia:Translation
• Wikipedia:Babel – Userpage language proficiency banners

Moving a non-encyclopedic entry to Wiktionary:

• {{Transwikied to Wiktionary}}, {{Transwiki to Wiktionary Finished}}: Pasted at the top of the talk page by admins.

Markup:

• [[wikt:ᐁᕕᖃ]] → wikt:ᐁᕕᖃ
• [[wikt:粘菌|'myxomycete' in Japanese]] → 'myxomycete' in Japanese (You can use a pipe as usual.)
• [[wikt:curcubeu|]] → curcubeu (You can hide "wikt:" by a pipe trick.)

Wiktionary-related userboxes:

• {{User Wiktionary}}: "This user has a page on Wiktionary" box.
• {{User admin Wiktionary}}: "This user is an administrator on Wiktionary" box.

See also:

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary