Template:Site

Usage

Use this template, whenever you set links to the railml.org website (https://railml.org).

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

For Links to other websites, please use Template:External.

🗒️ An outline on Citations and References within the railML® wikis can be found here.

Arguments

The template has an obligatory and six optional argument:

• Obligatory; unnamed
  • 1: the link target, e.g. https://railml.org. Please, recognize the note below.

💡 If the content of the unnamed arguments contains equality signs this can easily result in errors. example {{site|https://www.railml.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=71&|Heidrun Jost BaliseGroup and its attributes {{rml}} forum post}}<nowiki />}} results in: [Heidrun Jost BaliseGroup and its attributes railML® forum post Heidrun Jost BaliseGroup and its attributes railML® forum post] (link to the railML® website) There are two remedies: Either make the argument number explicit: {{site|1=https://www.railml.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=71&|2=Heidrun Jost BaliseGroup and its attributes {{rml}} forum post}} Or escape all equality signs via url encoding () in the first argument and with HTML entities () in the second argument: {{site|https://www.railml.org/forum/index.php?t%3Dmsg&goto%3D71&|Heidrun Jost BaliseGroup and its attributes {{rml}} forum post}}

• 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. Please, recognize the note above.
  • date: the publication date of the file
  • type: the file type, e.g. PDF
  • lang: the language of the link target file, e.g. EN
  • visited: the date when the file was visited
  • comment: a comment to be displayed within the brackets
  • domain: The domain of the site: e.g. schemas or forum
  • inlang: en (=default), de or fr for a notice in the language of the context (inlang=silent suppresses the notice)
  • comment: anything that does not fit into the other parameters; a string to be displayed directly
  • mode: if mode=silent, the link will not be commented.
  • inline: dummyargument. Set inline=1 whenever you employ the template outside <ref> tags to show that this is on purpose not in a footnote.

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

Examples

Code	Output
{{site|https://railml.org}}	https://railml.org (link to the railML® website)
{{site|https://railml.org|inlang=silent}}	https://railml.org
{{site|https://railml.org|Our homepage}}	Our homepage (link to the railML® website)
{{site|https://railml.org|type=HTML}}	https://railml.org (link to the railML® website, HTML)
{{site|https://railml.org|lang=EN|text=Our homepage}}	Our homepage (link to the railML® website, 🇬🇧)
{{site|https://railml.org|Our homepage|type=HTML|lang=EN}}	Our homepage (link to the railML® website, HTML, 🇬🇧)
{{site|https://de.wiki.railvivid.railml.org|type=HTML|lang=DE|comment=In Development}}	https://de.wiki.railvivid.railml.org (link to the railML® website, HTML, 🇩🇪; In Development)