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Revision as of 17:57, 6 January 2015

This is the template sandbox page for Template:Babel (diff). See also the companion subpage for test cases.

This template should not be substituted.

This template uses Lua: Module:Babel (sandbox)

This template is used on approximately 43,000 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.

{{Babel}} is a template for showing the languages that you know, as well as the operating system, keyboard layout, web browser, desktop environment, and text editor that you are most comfortable with. Details of how to use it for its original purpose—showing the languages that you know—are at Misplaced Pages:Babel.

Usage

{{Babel|<box1>|<box2>|<box3>...}}

Parameters can be added using the {{!}} and {{=}} tricks:

The Babel box prefixes its arguments with "User ", so it will work with the User: namespace:

{{Babel|:UBX/Userboxes/Thank Button}} ➜

Misplaced Pages:Babel This user likes to use the thank button. Search user languages

Set the nocat parameter to yes to suppress categories.

Custom styling

To customize the appearance you can add the optional parameters

|align=left

to display the babel box on the left side of the screen rather than the default right

|header=header

change header, default is Misplaced Pages:Babel

|footer=footer

change wiki markup for footer, default is ] (which appears as Search user languages)

|bordercolor=color

color of the border, default is #99B3FF

|color=color

background color, default is white

|textcolor=color

text color, default is black

|left=pixels

left margin in pixels, default is 1

|bottom=pixels

bottom margin in pixels, default is 0.5

|solid=pixels

solid border width, default is 1

|width=pixels

width of the box, default is 248

|extra-css=css-code

any other custom formatting

Columns and separators

• Use ! to start a new column after that point
• Use - to insert a blank row
• Use head to insert a header; use head-m to insert a header without text
• Use line to insert a horizontal ruler separator

For example,

{{Babel
| align  = left
| header = Userboxes
| color  = yellow
| head           | en    | tl-1       | ru-2
| line           | pas   | :UBX/1337  | !
| head{{!}}Other | 1RR   | help desk  | -
| line           | happy | wikipedia/WikiFairy
}}

Produces:

Userboxes
Misplaced Pages:Babel en This user is a native speaker of the English language. tl-1 Ang tagagamit na ito ay nakakapag-ambag ng Tagalog sa mababang antas. ru-2 Этот участник неплохо знает русский язык. pas This user can program in Pascal. 1337 7|-|15 |_|x0r 5|>34|<5 1337.	Other 1RR This user prefers discussing changes on the talk page rather than engaging in an edit war. This user volunteers at the Misplaced Pages Help Desk. This user is happy and always will be. This user is a WikiFairy.
Search user languages

Copying template to other wikis

The page you are viewing right now is the actual Babel template. If you click "edit this page", you will see an invocation of Module:Babel, in Lua, that makes the Babel boxes work. What you're reading right now is just documentation for that code, transcluded inside "<noinclude>" tags so it doesn't interfere with the computer code.

In order to use Babel boxes in another Wikimedia project, you need both the template and the module. Click "view source" and copy all the contents, including the computer code. Create a page called "Template:Babel" on the other Wikimedia project and put the content into it. Do the same for the module.

You will also need to copy over a bunch of templates with names like "Template:User en", "Template:User en-1", "Template:User fr", and so on. Once you've done that, users can put, for example, "{{Babel|en-1|fr}}" on their user page, and the Babel boxes will be displayed.

See also

• mw:Extension:Babel

• Template sandboxes