Template:In lang/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:In lang. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

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 uses Lua: Module:In lang

Template:In lang is used to denote that a text source is written in a specific language.

For citations using a citation template ({{cite web}}, {{cite news}}, {{cite journal}}, etc.), that template's |language= parameter should be used instead.

To note a span of text in a different language, {{lang}} or one of the {{lang-x}} templates ({{lang-fr}}, {{lang-ast}}, etc.) should be used instead.

This template accepts one or more positional language-code parameters (<code>) and two named parameters:

• Code: {{In lang|<code>|<code2>|...|link=|cap=}}
• Produces: {{In lang|de}} → (in German)

• <code> – required; <code> is a valid ISO-639 language code or a valid IETF language tag; more than one language code supported:
  • {{In lang|cs|en|de|fr|es|ca-valencia|pl|ru|ja|zh}} →

(in Czech, English, German, French, Spanish, Valencian, Polish, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese)

• link – accepts the single value yes; creates link to language article
  • {{In lang|nv|link=yes}} → <span class="languageicon">(in [[Navajo language|Navajo]])</span> → (in Navajo)
• cap – accepts the single value yes; capitalizes the first letter of "In":
  • {{In lang|pt-BR|cap=yes}} → (In Brazilian Portuguese)

This template has one error message of its own:

error: {{In lang}} missing language tag – displayed when the template is transcluded without an ISO 639 language code or IETF language tag.

All other error messages related to the use of this template are emitted by Module:Lang and are documented at Category:Lang and lang-xx template errors.

Transclusions in mainspace articles will add the article to the appropriate subcategory of Category:Articles with non-English-language sources. There are two forms of these subcategories:

Category:Articles with <language name>-language sources (<code>) – for individual languages^[1] and for macrolanguages^[2]

Category:Articles with <collective name> languages-collective sources (<code>) – for language collectives^[3]

where <language name> and <collective name> is the name used in the template's rendering and <code> is the ISO 639 code or IETF language tag.