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Usage
The template can be used to mark external links.
This template grants that external links will be collected in category:External Link. So we keep an overview of external links and control their actuality routinely.
For Links to pages on the railML®-site (https://railml.org), please use Template:Site.
Please, consider, that the template contains an exception for links to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), as there are too many links to W3C data types — we want to avoid the reading flow being disturbed.
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An outline on Citations and References within the railML® wikis can be found here.
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Dependencies
Arguments
The template has an obligatory and five optional argument:
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If the content of the unnamed arguments contains equality signs this can easily result in errors.
- example
{{site|https://www.railml.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=71&|Heidrun Jost BaliseGroup and its attributes railML forum post}}<nowiki />}}
results in:
[Heidrun Jost BaliseGroup and its attributes railML forum post Heidrun Jost BaliseGroup and its attributes railML forum post] (link to the railML® website)
There are two remedies:
- Either make the argument number explicit:
{{site|1=https://www.railml.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=71&|2=Heidrun Jost BaliseGroup and its attributes railML forum post}}
- Or escape all equality signs via url encoding (
 ) in the first argument and with HTML entities () in the second argument:
{{site|https://www.railml.org/forum/index.php?t%3Dmsg&goto%3D71&|Heidrun Jost BaliseGroup and its attributes railML forum post}}
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- Optional
- 2 or text: the link text. If it is empty, the link target will be used as link text. This argument can be used both named or unnamed. Please, recognize the note above.
- archive: Provide an archive link in case the source is no longer available. On default, the original URL (argument 1) be displayed and the archive URL will be linked.
- date: the publication date of the file
- type: the file type, e.g. PDF
- lang: the language of the link target file, e.g. EN. For EN, FR, DE, NL, NO, CZ and ES a flag will be displayed. In all other cases the input string will be returned.
- size: the file size — use only for very big files beyond 25 M!
- visited: the date when the file was visited
- inlang: en (=default), de or fr for a notice in the language of the context
- comment: anything that does not fit into the other parameters; a string to be displayed directly
- mode: if mode=silent, the link will not be commented.
- inline: dummyargument. Set inline=1 whenever you employ the template outside <ref> tags to show that this is on purpose not in a footnote.
If the second argument is unnamed (example: {{external|https://example.ex|some example text}}), it will be interpreted as link text. If the second argument is named (example:{{external|https://example.ex|type=some file format}}), it will be interpreted according to the argument name.
Examples