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

This template is used on approximately 15,000 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.

This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS.

The {{Linktext}} template creates inline links to Wiktionary by default for each word separately to a page that matches that word, within the supplied text. Other wikis can be specified and thus interlanguage Wikipedias or interwiki links can be created.

Interlanguage links in general are links from a page in one Wikipedia in one language to a page in another Wikipedia in another language.

The default target that this template links to is Wiktionary. To change the target, set the parameter |pref= to another sister wiki’s code (see list of sister wikis and their codes and list of Wikipedias and codes). For example, |pref=c for Commons, or |pref=th for Thai Wikipedia. To link to a foreign language Wiktionary, set to wikt:de or whatever {{lang}} code.

Use the arguments |n1, |n2, |n3, up to |n20, to specify words that should not be linked. Regular spaces will be removed from the beginning and end of these; if you must have spaces, use   instead.

If you want to have a delimiter, such as ", ", appear between links, specify the delimiter with |lim=.

You should specify the language code with |lang= (rationale explained here). This is not required if it is used inside a template that specifies the language, such as Template:Zh.

Note: Do not add this template everywhere. For some reason, this template is frequently used in articles containing CJK terms, but this is not recommended. Use this template only when a link to Wiktionary is really needed.

{{Linktext|This| is| a| test}}

This is a test

{{Linktext|This| is|n2= not| a| test}}

This is not a test

The following links to the German Wiktionary:

{{Linktext|Das | Ewig-Weibliche| zieht| uns |hinan|pref=wikt:de}}

Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan

Also can be used to wikt-link individual Chinese characters:

{{linktext|雲|居|道|膺}}

雲居道膺

Examples of result of specifying "lang" (differences in characters explained here and here):

{{Linktext|雲|緑|lang=ja}}

雲緑

{{Linktext|雲|緑|lang=zh}}

雲緑

• {{Interlanguage link}}
• {{Sister project}}
• {{Sister-inline}}
• Help:Contents/Links
• Help:Interwikimedia links
• Help:Interlanguage links
• Wikipedia:List of templates linking to other free content projects
• Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects
• Category:Interwiki link templates
• meta:List of Wikipedias
• m:Interwiki map
• Wikipedia:Translation
• Wikipedia:Babel – Userpage language proficiency banners

Moving a non-encyclopedic entry to Wiktionary:

• {{Transwikied to Wiktionary}}, {{Transwiki to Wiktionary Finished}}: Pasted at the top of the talk page by admins.

Markup:

• [[wikt:ᐁᕕᖃ]] → wikt:ᐁᕕᖃ
• [[wikt:snow#Spanish]] → wikt:snow#Spanish (you can link to a specific language section)
• [[wikt:粘菌|'myxomycete' in Japanese]] → 'myxomycete' in Japanese (You can use a pipe as usual.)
• [[wikt:curcubeu|]] → curcubeu (You can hide "wikt:" by a pipe trick.)

Wiktionary-related userboxes:

• {{User Wiktionary}}: "This user has a page on Wiktionary" box.
• {{User admin Wiktionary}}: "This user is an administrator on Wiktionary" box.

See also:

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary