Template:Lang: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 20:23, 14 July 2026

Usage

A Lua-free reimplementation of Wikipedia's {{lang}}, built for Politicalsg because the wiki cannot run Scribunto/Lua (proc_open is blocked; any #invoke errors). This version uses only and .

{{lang|language code|text}}

Deviations from the Wikipedia original — read before assuming parity:

No Lua means no full IETF-tag validation, no ISO 639 database lookup, and no automatic per-language subcategorisation. Everything below is hand-coded.
Italics default is decided by a fixed list of language codes, not real script detection. CJK, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Cyrillic-family and a few other non-Latin codes render upright by default; everything else (French, German, Malay, Spanish, etc.) renders in italics by default. Override with |italic=yes, |italic=no, or |italic=unset.
The title="...-language text" attribute only resolves a language name for the codes in the switch list above (mainly the ones actually in use on this wiki: Chinese variants, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Tamil, Russian, Malay, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Latin). Anything else falls back to showing the raw code, e.g. title="cy-language text" instead of "Welsh-language text". Add more codes to the switch list as the wiki needs them.
Categorisation is a single flat , not per-language subcategories (Wikipedia's Module:Lang generates ~150 of those; not worth building without Lua). Suppress with |nocat=yes.
No support for script/region/variant subtags beyond what's hard-coded above (no zh-Latn-pinyin-style transliteration handling, no -x-proto asterisk prefixing). If a page needs that, extend the switch list rather than trying to genericise it — this wiki's actual use cases are narrow (mostly Chinese-language quotes in event pages).
No Template:Langx companion template built yet. If a page needs the "Chinese: 讲华语" prefixed form, that would be a separate template built the same way (switch-based name lookup + this same span logic).

Examples

{{lang|zh-Hans|讲华语运动}}

→ renders upright, title="Chinese-language text"

{{lang|fr|Je suis française.}}

→ renders in italics, title="French-language text"

{{lang|zh-Hans|讲华语运动|nocat=yes}}

→ same, but does not add the category (use inside wikilinks/citation titles, same as upstream)

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-<includeonly>{{#if:{{{2|{{{text|}}}}}}|{{#switch:{{{italic|auto}}}
+<includeonly>{{#if:{{{2|{{{text|}}}}}}|{{#switch:{{{italic|auto}}}|no=<span title="{{#switch:{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}|zh|zh-Hans|zh-Hant|zh-CN|zh-TW|zh-SG|zh-HK=Chinese|ja=Japanese|ko=Korean|th=Thai|ar=Arabic|he=Hebrew|hi=Hindi|ta=Tamil|ru=Russian|ms=Malay|fr=French|de=German|es=Spanish|it=Italian|pt=Portuguese|la=Latin|#default={{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}}}-language text"><span lang="{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}" style="font-style: normal;"{{#if:{{{rtl|}}}| dir="rtl"}}>{{{2|{{{text|}}}}}}</span></span>|unset=<span title="{{#switch:{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}|zh|zh-Hans|zh-Hant|zh-CN|zh-TW|zh-SG|zh-HK=Chinese|ja=Japanese|ko=Korean|th=Thai|ar=Arabic|he=Hebrew|hi=Hindi|ta=Tamil|ru=Russian|ms=Malay|fr=French|de=German|es=Spanish|it=Italian|pt=Portuguese|la=Latin|#default={{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}}}-language text"><span lang="{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}"{{#if:{{{rtl|}}}| dir="rtl"}}>{{{2|{{{text|}}}}}}</span></span>|yes=<span title="{{#switch:{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}|zh|zh-Hans|zh-Hant|zh-CN|zh-TW|zh-SG|zh-HK=Chinese|ja=Japanese|ko=Korean|th=Thai|ar=Arabic|he=Hebrew|hi=Hindi|ta=Tamil|ru=Russian|ms=Malay|fr=French|de=German|es=Spanish|it=Italian|pt=Portuguese|la=Latin|#default={{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}}}-language text"><i lang="{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}"{{#if:{{{rtl|}}}| dir="rtl"}}>{{{2|{{{text|}}}}}}</i></span>|#default={{#switch:{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}|zh|zh-Hans|zh-Hant|zh-CN|zh-TW|zh-SG|zh-HK|ja|ko|th|ar|he|hi|ta|te|kn|ml|bn|km|my|lo|ka|hy|el|ru|uk|bg|sr|mn=<span title="{{#switch:{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}|zh|zh-Hans|zh-Hant|zh-CN|zh-TW|zh-SG|zh-HK=Chinese|ja=Japanese|ko=Korean|th=Thai|ar=Arabic|he=Hebrew|hi=Hindi|ta=Tamil|ru=Russian|#default={{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}}}-language text"><span lang="{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}"{{#if:{{{rtl|}}}| dir="rtl"}}>{{{2|{{{text|}}}}}}</span></span>|#default=<span title="{{#switch:{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}|ms=Malay|fr=French|de=German|es=Spanish|it=Italian|pt=Portuguese|la=Latin|#default={{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}}}-language text"><i lang="{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}"{{#if:{{{rtl|}}}| dir="rtl"}}>{{{2|{{{text|}}}}}}</i></span>}}}}{{#if:{{{nocat|}}}||[[Category:Articles containing non-English-language text]]}}}}</includeonly><noinclude>
-| no = <span title="{{#switch:{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}|zh|zh-Hans|zh-Hant|zh-CN|zh-TW|zh-SG|zh-HK=Chinese|ja=Japanese|ko=Korean|th=Thai|ar=Arabic|he=Hebrew|hi=Hindi|ta=Tamil|ru=Russian|ms=Malay|fr=French|de=German|es=Spanish|it=Italian|pt=Portuguese|la=Latin|#default={{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}}}-language text"><span lang="{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}" style="font-style: normal;"{{#if:{{{rtl|}}}| dir="rtl"}}>{{{2|{{{text|}}}}}}</span></span>
-| unset = <span title="{{#switch:{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}|zh|zh-Hans|zh-Hant|zh-CN|zh-TW|zh-SG|zh-HK=Chinese|ja=Japanese|ko=Korean|th=Thai|ar=Arabic|he=Hebrew|hi=Hindi|ta=Tamil|ru=Russian|ms=Malay|fr=French|de=German|es=Spanish|it=Italian|pt=Portuguese|la=Latin|#default={{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}}}-language text"><span lang="{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}"{{#if:{{{rtl|}}}| dir="rtl"}}>{{{2|{{{text|}}}}}}</span></span>
-| yes = <span title="{{#switch:{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}|zh|zh-Hans|zh-Hant|zh-CN|zh-TW|zh-SG|zh-HK=Chinese|ja=Japanese|ko=Korean|th=Thai|ar=Arabic|he=Hebrew|hi=Hindi|ta=Tamil|ru=Russian|ms=Malay|fr=French|de=German|es=Spanish|it=Italian|pt=Portuguese|la=Latin|#default={{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}}}-language text"><i lang="{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}"{{#if:{{{rtl|}}}| dir="rtl"}}>{{{2|{{{text|}}}}}}</i></span>
-| #default = {{#switch:{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}
-  | zh | zh-Hans | zh-Hant | zh-CN | zh-TW | zh-SG | zh-HK | ja | ko | th | ar | he | hi | ta | te | kn | ml | bn | km | my | lo | ka | hy | el | ru | uk | bg | sr | mn = <span title="{{#switch:{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}|zh|zh-Hans|zh-Hant|zh-CN|zh-TW|zh-SG|zh-HK=Chinese|ja=Japanese|ko=Korean|th=Thai|ar=Arabic|he=Hebrew|hi=Hindi|ta=Tamil|ru=Russian|#default={{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}}}-language text"><span lang="{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}"{{#if:{{{rtl|}}}| dir="rtl"}}>{{{2|{{{text|}}}}}}</span></span>
-  | #default = <span title="{{#switch:{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}|ms=Malay|fr=French|de=German|es=Spanish|it=Italian|pt=Portuguese|la=Latin|#default={{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}}}-language text"><i lang="{{{1|{{{code|}}}}}}"{{#if:{{{rtl|}}}| dir="rtl"}}>{{{2|{{{text|}}}}}}</i></span>
-  }}
-}}{{#if:{{{nocat|}}}||[[Category:Articles containing non-English-language text]]}}}}</includeonly><noinclude>
 == Usage ==
 A Lua-free reimplementation of Wikipedia's <nowiki>{{lang}}</nowiki>, built for Politicalsg because the wiki cannot run Scribunto/Lua (<code>proc_open</code> is blocked; any <code>#invoke</code> errors). This version uses only <code>{{#if:}}</code> and <code>{{#switch:}}</code>.