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User is a required parameter, e.g. <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|User=Jimbo Wales.
Project defines a Wikimedia sister project to be used instead of the English Wikipedia, the correct code for the interwiki link should be used, e.g. <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|Project=b.
Lang is the interlanguage code for a project to be used instead of the English Wikipedia, e.g. <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|Lang=es. This can be used in conjunction with the project parameter.
separator defines the symbol used to separate different links, e.g. <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|separator=pipe. The default is a dot.
<templatedata>
{
"description": "This template is used to create a link to a user's user page (unless using Example (talk)), talk page, and contributions, and generates a special notification (aka 'ping').",
"params": {
"1": {
"label": "User name",
"type": "wiki-user-name",
"required": true,
"description": "The user name that you want to create links to and notify.",
"aliases": [
"user"
]
},
"project": {
"label": "Sister project",
"type": "string",
"description": "Used to link to a sister project instead of the English Wikipedia. Use the standard interwiki prefix.",
"suggestedvalues": [
"wiktionary",
"wikinews",
"wikibooks",
"wikiquote",
"wikisource",
"wikispecies",
"wikiversity",
"wikivoyage",
"foundation",
"commons",
"meta",
"mediawikiwiki",
"wikidata"
]
},
"lang": {
"label": "Other language project",
"type": "string",
"description": "Used to link to another language project. If used with the \"sister project\" parameter, links to another language of a sister project. Otherwise links to another language Wikipedia. Use the standard language code."
},
"separator": {
"label": "Separator",
"description": "Used to change the separator between the links. If unused, defaults to a dot."
}
}
}
</templatedata>
Userspace link templates
User information templates provide informational links for a user; they are similar to signatures, but often provide additional information, and may be used by other users. List:
This documentation is automatically generated by Template:User-multi/template.
Any categories and documentation specific to this template should be added to the template's /doc subpage.
Template documentation
