Template:Engvar

Personal likes
Demo: using WP:Engvar in templates
Home country	Australia
Favourite things
Colour	Blue
Association Football team	FC Kuusysi
	In this demo 'article', the template parameter is set: \|engvar=Australian

Personal likes
Demo: using WP:Engvar in templates
Home country	Alaska
Favorite things
Color	Blue
Soccer team	FC Kuusysi
	In this demo 'article', the template parameter is set: \|engvar=en-US

Personal likes
Demo: using WP:Engvar in templates
Home country	Wales
Favourite things
Colour	Blue
Football team	FC Kuusysi
	In this demo 'article', the template parameter is set: \|engvar=(unspecified)

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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 uses Lua:

module:Engvar (sandbox)

This template is used inside other templates. It allows templates to show national varieties of English, when |engvar= is passed by each article.

For example, one template can display "football" for |engvar=en-UK articles, and "soccer" for |engvar=en-US articles.

Usage

Articles specify the English variety parameter for relevant templates like {{example|engvar=en-US}}. They do not use {{engvar}}.
Templates use {{engvar}}. It should not forget to pass-through |engvar={{{engvar|}}}

...
| label3 = {{engvar |defaultWord=Colour |defaultLang=en-UK |en-US=Color |engvar={{{engvar|auto}}} }}
|  data3 = {{{color|}}}
| label4 = {{engvar |defaultWord=Football |defaultLang=en-UK |en-US=Soccer |engvar={{{engvar|auto}}} }} team
|  data4 = {{{team|}}}
...

The |defaultWord= be shown by default. But if an article asks for an English variety that has a corresponding parameter specified in the template, the value will be shown.

In the example, the template specified a British English word as default whenever no |engvar= is specified by the article. The word can be changed in an American English article by that article specifying |engvar=en-US. The fallback 'auto' value means it will try to determine the language based on templates like {{Use British English}} or {{Use American English}} being present on the page if no engvar is specified.

Note: {{engvar}} is unrelated to parameter names like |color= vs. |colour=. See programming option |data3={{{color|{{{colour|}}} }}}

Example

Consider an example template, a fictive {{infobox personal likes}}. The demo is encoded in {{Engvar/doc/infobox demo}}.

Template code

{{infobox
| title       = Personal likes
| above       = Demo: using [[WP:ENGVAR|WP:Engvar]] in templates
| abovestyle  = background:#ddd; font-weight:normal; font-size:smaller;
| headerstyle = background:lemonchiffon
| label1      = Home country
| data1       = {{{home country|}}}
| header2     = {{engvar|defaultWord=Favourite |defaultLang=en-GB | engvar={{{engvar|auto}}}
                        |en-US=Favorite }} things
| label3      = {{engvar|defaultWord=Colour |defaultLang=en-GB | engvar={{{engvar|auto}}}
                        |en-US=Color }}
| data3       = {{{color|}}}
| label4      = {{engvar|defaultWord=Football |defaultLang=en-GB | engvar={{{engvar|auto}}}
                        |en-US=Soccer |en-AU=Association Football}} team
| data4       = {{{team|}}}
| below       = In this demo 'article', the template parameter is set: {{para|1=engvar|2={{{engvar|(unspecified)}}}}}
| belowstyle  = background:#ddd;
}}

Three articles

{{Engvar/doc/infobox demo
| home country = Wales
| color = Blue
| team  = [[FC Kuusysi]]
<!-- |engvar= not set; expect defaults -->
}}

{{Engvar/doc/infobox demo
| home country = Alaska
| color = Blue
| team  = [[FC Kuusysi]]
| engvar= en-US
}}

{{Engvar/doc/infobox demo
| home country = Australia
| color = Blue
| team  = [[FC Kuusysi]]
| engvar= Australian
}}

A live example

Currently, {{infobox element}} has five {{engvar}} words. Phosphorus shows |engvar=en-UK despite the |engvar=en-US default.

Parameter list

Template

{{engvar
| defaultWord =
| defaultLang =
| engvar = <!-- Pass-through the editor's choice, set to 'auto' to automatically detect -->
| en-XX = <!-- add country code for XX, and the nation language word -->
| en-YY = <!-- add more varieties as might be needed -->
| engvarCat =  <!-- '=no' will suppress message category in article page -->
| fallback = <!-- set to 'true' to allow commonwealth languages to fallback to 'en-GB'. False by default unless engvar='auto'. -->
}}

Article

{{example
| engvar =
| engvarCat =
}}

List of English varieties

In the template, use the exact ISO-code as the parameter name like |en-GB=vapour. Write |en-US=soccer not |American English=soccer. Needed varieties have articles using the template and words differing from the default.

English variety	ISO-code
American English	`en-US`
Australian English	`en-AU`
British English	`en-GB`
Canadian English	`en-CA`
Hiberno-English (Irish English)	`en-EI`
Hong Kong English	`en-HK`
Indian English	`en-IN`
Jamaican English	`en-JM`
Malawian English	`en-MW`
New Zealand English	`en-NZ`
Nigerian English	`en-NG`
Pakistani English	`en-PK`
Philippine English	`en-PH`
Scottish English	`en-SCO`
Singapore English	`en-SG`
South African English	`en-ZA`
Trinidadian English	`en-TT`
British English Oxford spelling British (Oxford) English Oxford English Dictionary (OED)	`en-OED`
IUPAC spelling	`en-IUPAC`

There is backwards compatibility for leeway in articles. |engvar=en-US, |engvar=United States, |engvar=US can all show the |en-US=football variety.

Maintenance category

Articles with an invalid |engvar= will be placed in the hidden maintenance category Category:Articles using an unknown Template:Engvar option. Articles listed may need editing.

An article's requested |engvar= may be unspecified in the template. For example, if an article uses {{example|engvar=South African English}} but the template has no |en-ZA=, then the template will return |defaultWord=default color name. The category will not be used.

When this categorization is not desired for a whole template, set |engvarCat=no in the template

Otherwise pass-through this setting from the article: |engvarCat={{{engvarCat|yes}}}. This allows the editor to switch categorization off per article.

Articles are sorted by |engvarCatSort= or {{pagename}} by default. Note that other templates will fill this category. Set this parameter like |engvarCatSort=Personal prefs in a template to group its listings under "P".

Template data

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Engvar in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Engvar

No description.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Default spelling	`defaultword`	The default word, usually the word in the English variety most often used Example colour	String	suggested
Default English variety	`defaultLang`	Adding this helps document your {{engvar}} setting Suggested values `en-US` `en-AU` `en-GB` `en-CA` `en-EI` `en-HK` `en-IN` `en-JM` `en-MW` `en-NZ` `en-NG` `en-PK` `en-PH` `en-SCO` `en-SG` `en-ZA` `en-TT` `en-OED` `en-IUPAC` Example en-US	String	suggested
English variety	`engvar`	English variety to use. Set to 'auto' to try to detect variety based on templates such as {{Use British English}} or {{EngvarB}} being present on the page. Suggested values `{{{engvar\|auto}}}` `{{{engvar\|}}}` `auto`	String	required
Suppress maintenance category	`engvarCat`	no description Suggested values `{{{engvarCat\|yes}}}` `no` Default yes	String	suggested
Fallback	`fallback`	Whether Commonwealth English languages should fallback to en-GB if not specified Default false unless engvar=auto	Boolean	optional
Maintenance category sort key	`engvarCatSort`	no description Default {{pagename}}	String	optional
American English spelling	`en-US`	no description Example color	String	optional
Australian English spelling	`en-AU`	no description	String	optional
British English spelling	`en-GB`	no description	String	optional
Canadian English spelling	`en-CA`	no description	String	optional
Hiberno-English (Irish-English) spelling	`en-EI`	no description	String	optional
Hong Kong English spelling	`en-HK`	no description	String	optional
Indian English spelling	`en-IN`	no description	String	optional
Jamaican English spelling	`en-JM`	no description	String	optional
Malawian English spelling	`en-MW`	no description	String	optional
New Zealand English spelling	`en-NZ`	no description	String	optional
Nigerian English spelling	`en-NG`	no description	String	optional
Pakistani English spelling	`en-PK`	no description	String	optional
Philippine English spelling	`en-PH`	no description	String	optional
Scottish English spelling	`en-SCO`	no description	String	optional
Singapore English spelling	`en-SG`	no description	String	optional
South African English spelling	`en-ZA`	no description	String	optional
Trinidadian English spelling	`en-TT`	no description	String	optional
British (Oxford) English spelling	`en-OED`	no description	String	optional
IUPAC spelling	`en-IUPAC`	no description	String	optional