Template:External

Usage

🗒️ This template is decided to expired. Enter external links directly into the text acoording to the mediawiki documentation. Replace the template, whereever you encounter it.

The template can be used to mark 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 {{external|http://www.railml.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=469&start=0&}} with {{external|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& (external link)
• 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)