Template:External

Usage

Please, use this template, whenever you set external links.

This template grants that external links will be collected in category:External Link. So we keep an overview of external links and control their actuality routinely.

For Links to pages on the railML^®-site (http://railml.org), please use Template:Site.

Arguments

The template has an obligatory and three optional argument:

• Obligatory; unnamed
  • 1: the link target, e.g. http://uic.org
    Notice: the mediawiki software will misinterpret URLs containing the equality sign (=). Replace equality signs in URLs with the HTML-entity =.
    Example: replace {{site|http://www.railml.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=469&start=0&}} with {{site|http://www.railml.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=469&start=0&}} as to display http://www.railml.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=469&start=0& (railML^® website)
• Optional
  • 2 or text: the link text. If it is empty, the link target will be used as link text. This argument can be used both named or unnamed.
  • type: the file type, e.g. PDF
  • lang: the language of the link target file, e.g. EN

If the second argument is unnamed (example: {{external|http://example.ex|some example text}}), it will be interpreted as link text. If the second argument is named (example:{{external|http://example.ex|type=some file format}}), it will be interpreted according to the argument name.

Examples

Code	Output
{{external|http://www.uic.org}}	http://www.uic.org (external link)
{{external|http://www.uic.org|International Union of Railways}}	International Union of Railways (external link)
{{external|http://www.uic.org|type=HTML}}	http://www.uic.org (external link, HTML)
{{external|http://www.uic.org|lang=EN|text=UIC}}	UIC (external link, EN)
{{external|http://www.uic.org|UIC|type=HTML|lang=EN}}	UIC (external link, HTML, EN)