Template:User/doc
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Sandbox
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TemplateData
TemplateData for User
<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>