This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.
This template links conditionally to pages on non-English Wikipedias. If the specified article does not exist on the English Wikipedia, this template intentionally displays a red link to that anticipated but still-nonexistent article, followed by link(s) to the specified article(s) on the non-English Wikipedia(s), shown under the corresponding language code(s), in brackets. Hovering over a non-English link displays the name of the article on the non-English Wikipedia, as normal. Links to non-English Wikipedia articles are always blue; it is up to the editor to make sure they link to the intended article.
If the specified article exists (that is, after the anticipated article has been created) on the English Wikipedia, this template will only show the blue link to that article, and no longer to the non-English link(s).[lower-alpha 1]
Because {{ill}} normally produces a working link along with a redlink, it is appropriate for use in hatnotes, in spite of the general advice to avoid redlinks in hatnotes.[lower-alpha 2]
Please be aware Cewbotremoves this template when it detects the target article has been created on English Wikipedia, converting {{ill}} links to regular (blue) links.[lower-alpha 1]
There are several ways of using this template. It can produce links to one or more specific languages, Magnus Manske's Reasonator, or to the Wikidata table of languages.
ਫਰਵਰੀ 2016 ਤੱਕ [update], if there is a redirect for the term in English Wikipedia, both the redirected (blue) link and interlanguage link(s) are displayed. This is why "casa" appears as a bluelink in the example below.
Where there are multiple interlanguage links readers may be confused about their purpose. The template {{interlanguage link info}} may be placed at the head of a page or section.
Link to one foreign language
To link to a foreign language article with the same title as the English Wikipedia, the parameters are:
{{ill|Article title|language code}}
{{ill|Hanning Schröder|de}} produces: Hanning Schröder [de] (the English article exists),
whereas
{{ill|Richard J. Youle|de}} produces: Richard J. Youle [de] (as of June 2022, no English article exists)
To link to a foreign language article with a different title, the parameters are:
{{ill|English article title|language code|Title in foreign language}}
{{ill|Hooglede town hall|nl|Gemeentehuis van Hooglede}} produces: Hooglede town hall [nl]
Link to multiple languages
To link to multiple languages with the same title as the English language page, the titles of the page are not necessary; the parameters are:
To create a piped link (text displayed that is different from the title of the page to which the text links), use the |lt= parameter (which stands for "link text"). This is useful if disambiguation is necessary, for example to hide the (botanist) in Charles Darwin (botanist):
{{ill|Charles Darwin (botanist)|lt=Charles Darwin|fr|Charles Darwin|de|Charles Darwin|es|Charles Darwin}} produces: Charles Darwin [fr; de; es]
Do not use {{!}} to create piped links: {{ill|Maze (band){{!}}Mazy|...}} is not equivalent to {{ill|Maze (band)|lt=Mazy|...}}. The former will not cause the foreign language links to disappear when the English article exists.
Forcing links
To display the interlanguage links even if the English Wikipedia article exists, add any of the values 1, y, yes or force for the parameter |display= or its alias, |preserve=.[lower-alpha 1]
This feature should not be used in articles under most circumstances. However, in pages that are primarily lists of pages that link to the same language, it might be desirable all links on a page should link to other languages whether or not an English page exists. This feature can also be used as a work-around to eliminate expensive parser function calls.
Note: As of February 2016, redirects appear as blue links even while foreign-language links are still shown (i.e. you do not need to force-show them).
Remove bold formatting from links
Usually the display of the Interlanguage or Wikidata or the Reasonator (the "appended link") are in normal font, but if the appended link is for example in a title line of table, then along with the rest of the line the appended link will be bold. In such circumstances the appended link can be set to display unbolded by adding any value for the parameter |nobold=.
Input
Output
'''{{ill|Charles Darwin (botanist)|fr|Charles Darwin|de|Charles Darwin}}'''
If the linked material should be in italics (e.g., it is a major work such as a film title), use |italic=y (or |italic=yes, etc.) to generate italic markup around the link but not around the square-bracketed inter-language links.{{ill|Un papillon sur l'épaule|fr|italic=y}} produces: Un papillon sur l'épaule [fr]
If the linked material should have quotation marks around it (e.g., it is a minor work such as a song title), use |quote=y (or |quote=yes, etc.) to generate them around the link, but not around the square-bracketed inter-language links, and not themselves part of the link. This only does double quotation marks: {{ill|Maman ne le sait pas|fr|quote=y}} produces: "Maman ne le sait pas" [fr]
If both are used, quotation marks will appear around an italicized title, without italicizing the quotation marks.
Punctuation before language links
If punctuation such as a comma or period/full stop follows the expression, you may wish to display the punctuation before the interlanguage link(s), especially if combining it with superscript display. So, rather than have:
When this template is placed within elements that already use a smaller font size, such as infoboxes, the interlanguage link drops below 85% of the page's default font size. To prevent this and adhere to the value ib can be used with the vertical alignment parameter: vertical-align=ib (or v=ib, etc.)
Input
Output
{{ill|Charles Darwin (botanist)|fr|Charles Darwin|de|Charles Darwin|v=ib}}
All links to other Wikipedias are ignored if |WD= is present.
To link to Reasonator, add any value for the parameter |reasonator=. If a Wikidata item is linked, then the Reasonator link goes to the page for that item; if not, then a search is performed on Reasonator for that item.
If you create an {{interlanguage link}} and an English Wikipedia article is later created, this template will appear as a regular (blue) link as explained above. The underlying template, however, will eventually be edited automatically (it is one of the tasks assigned to bot Cewbot), removing the template and resulting in a regular (blue) link. While this is intended to save on the computational load, it does mean users will not again be directed to the foreign-language article if the article is later deleted as this information is lost. The link will become a red link. Use |preserve= or |display= to prevent automatic removal.[lower-alpha 1]
Examples
{{ill|TC Matic|af|TC Matic|nl|TC Matic|fr|TC Matic|es|TC Matic}} produces: TC Matic [af; nl; fr; es], because TC Matic exists here
{{ill|TC Matic (band)|af|TC Matic|nl|TC Matic|fr|TC Matic|es|TC Matic}} produces: TC Matic (band) [af; nl; fr; es], because TC Matic (band) does not exist here
{{ill|TC Matic (band)|af||nl||fr||es|}} produces: TC Matic (band) [af; nl; fr; es] – although shown in blue the interwiki links won't work because they default to the title "TC Matic (band)" which is wrong
{{ill|TC Matic (band)|lt=TC Matic|af|TC Matic|nl|TC Matic|fr|TC Matic|es|TC Matic}} produces: TC Matic [af; nl; fr; es] – the text "TC Matic" now redlinks to "TC Matic (band)"
{{ill|TC Matic|lt=TC Matic (band)|af|TC Matic|nl|TC Matic|fr|TC Matic|es|TC Matic}} produces: TC Matic (band) [af; nl; fr; es] – the text "TC Matic (band)" now links to "TC Matic" which exists
Name of the English Wikipedia page, or suggested name if the page does not exist
Page name
required
Link text
lt
Text displayed for the link to the English Wikipedia article, if not the same as the article title
ਮੂਲ ਰੂਪ
English Wikipedia article title
Line
suggested
1st language code
2
Language code for the 1st page in another language
Line
suggested
1st page
3
Title of the page in the 1st other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page
ਮੂਲ ਰੂਪ
English Wikipedia article title
Line
suggested
2nd language code
4
Language code for the 2nd page in another language
Line
optional
2nd page
5
Title of the page in the 2nd other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page
ਮੂਲ ਰੂਪ
English Wikipedia article title
Line
optional
3rd language code
6
Language code for the 3rd page in another language
Line
optional
3rd page
7
Title of the page in the 3rd other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page
ਮੂਲ ਰੂਪ
English Wikipedia article title
Line
optional
4th language code
8
Language code for the 4th page in another language
Line
optional
4th page
9
Title of the page in the 4th other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page
ਮੂਲ ਰੂਪ
English Wikipedia article title
Line
optional
5th language code
10
Language code for the 5th page in another language
Line
optional
5th page
11
Title of the page in the 5th other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page
ਮੂਲ ਰੂਪ
English Wikipedia article title
Line
optional
6th language code
12
Language code for the 6th page in another language
Line
optional
6th page
13
Title of the page in the 6th other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page
ਮੂਲ ਰੂਪ
English Wikipedia article title
Line
optional
7th language code
14
Language code for the 7th page in another language
Line
optional
7th page
15
Title of the page in the 7th other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page
ਮੂਲ ਰੂਪ
English Wikipedia article title
Line
optional
8th language code
16
Language code for the 8th page in another language
Line
optional
8th page
17
Title of the page in the 8th other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page
ਮੂਲ ਰੂਪ
English Wikipedia article title
Line
optional
9th language code
18
Language code for the 9th page in another language
Line
optional
9th page
19
Title of the page in the 9th other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page
ਮੂਲ ਰੂਪ
English Wikipedia article title
Line
optional
10th language code
20
Language code for the 10th page in another language
Line
optional
10th page
21
Title of the page in the 10th other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page
ਮੂਲ ਰੂਪ
English Wikipedia article title
Line
optional
11th language code
22
Language code for the 11th page in another language
Line
optional
11th page
23
Title of the page in the 11th other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page
ਮੂਲ ਰੂਪ
English Wikipedia article title
Line
optional
12th language code
24
Language code for the 12th page in another language
Line
optional
12th page
25
Title of the page in the 12th other language, if not the same as the English Wikipedia page
ਮੂਲ ਰੂਪ
English Wikipedia article title
Line
optional
Wikidata item
WDwd
Wikidata item of the article. Replaces links to pages in other languages
Line
suggested
Short Wikidata link text
shorts
If anything is set for this, Wikidata item link is displayed as 'd'
String
optional
Reasonator
reasonator
If anything is set for this, there is a link to the Reasonator page for the Wikidata item (if there is a link to an item) or to a Reasonator search for the English Wikipedia article title (if there is no item link)
String
optional
Preserve
preservedisplay
If anything is set for this, forces links to pages in other languages and projects to always display even if the English Wikipedia article exists
String
optional
No bold (or italic)
nobold
Entering any value will force links to other-language pages, Wikidata and Reasonator and the link brackets to force non-bold and non-italic text.
Example
yes
Line
optional
Italicize
italicitalics
If anything is set for this, puts italicization markup around the text to be linked, without including the bracketed inter-language links within the italics
String
optional
Vertical alignment
vertical-alignvalignv
Alters the position of language links from baseline, to superscript ('sup') or subscript ('sub') position. It can also prevent the font size of the language links from being reduced when used in infoboxes, by entering 'ib'.
Suggested values
supsubib
ਮੂਲ ਰੂਪ
baseline
Line
optional
Quote
quotequotes
If anything is set for this, puts double quotation marks around the text to be linked. The quotation marks won't be linked, and the bracketed inter-language links will be outside the quotation marks.
↑ 1.01.11.21.3Use |preserve= or its alias |display= to show the language links even if the English Wikipedia page exists. Using either parameter also eliminates the expensive parser function call. Cewbot will NOT convert this template into a regular link if either parameter is set. Cewbot will also not convert this template into a regular link if the English Wikipedia page exists but is a redirect back to the same page where the template appears.
