Template:Britannica
Britannica at the Encyclopædia Britannica
This template can be used to provide a link to the Encyclopædia Britannica's article on a given subject.
Usage
This template may only be used as an inline reference in an article on a related subject.
Parameters
Unnamed parameters:
{{Britannica | ID }}{{Britannica | ID | TITLE }}{{Britannica | ID | TITLE | AUTHOR }}
Named parameters:
{{Britannica | id=ID }}{{Britannica | id=ID | title=TITLE }}{{Britannica | id=ID | title=TITLE | author=AUTHOR }}
Combination:
{{Britannica | ID | author=AUTHOR }}
Finding the ID
ID is a numerical value given in the html source of the Britannica article in question. As of December 2021[update], it can be seen at "topicId": around line 65 (or just use Ctrl+F, and type in "topicId"). Two ways of viewing the source code on a computer are as follows:
- Press
Ctrl+Uon your computer's keyboard. - Right-click a blank part of the web page and select View page source from the pop-up menu that appears.
See for example How to view the HTML source code of a web page if you need help with this. The source of https://www.britannica.com/science/pancreas says "topicId": 440971 so it would use:
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"> Britannica at the Encyclopædia Britannica </syntaxhighlight>
Resulting output
It produces a link with the URL https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/440971/pancreas. It currently redirects to https://www.britannica.com/science/pancreas, but that URL may be less stable and cannot be produced by this template. When the template was originally made, Britannica.com included the ID in the normal URL.
TITLE provides an optional title for the link in place of the name of the Wikipedia article, in case the Britannica article has a different name for some reason (e.g. a Latin rather than a common name). For example, the Wikipedia article for the wild daffodil is titled "Narcissus pseudonarcissus", while Britannica uses "daffodil" and says "topicId": 149590 in the source. As such, the link would be formatted as follows:
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"> daffodil at the Encyclopædia Britannica </syntaxhighlight>
result:
- daffodil at the Encyclopædia Britannica
AUTHOR adds an optional author at the beginning of the output.
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"> Robert D. Utiger, pancreas at the Encyclopædia Britannica </syntaxhighlight>
result:
- Robert D. Utiger, pancreas at the Encyclopædia Britannica
This template places articles in Category:Articles with Encyclopædia Britannica links.
TemplateData
<templatedata> { "params": { "id": { "aliases": [ "1" ] }, "title": { "aliases": [ "2" ] }, "author": { "aliases": [ "3" ] } }, "paramOrder": [ "author", "id", "title" ], "description": "Can be used to provide a link to the Encyclopædia Britannica's article on a given subject" } </templatedata>
See also
- {{Britannica URL}} to cite Britannica using a URL
- {{Cite EBO}} to cite Britannica Online using the parameters of {{Cite encyclopedia}}
- {{Cite EB15}} to cite Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th edition
- {{Cite EB9}} to cite Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th edition
- {{Cite EB1911}} to cite Encyclopædia Britannica (1911), in the public domain