Language switcher

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This template creates a language switcher that supports English, German and French language pages. It can be inserted into a wiki page via the VisualEditor Insert > Template menu.

Importing the template

(The download file here only works in a wiki that is set to the content language English. For downloading the file for a wiki with content language set to German, go to the German Helpdesk.)

The import file is included in the archive file HW-LanguageSwitcher-en.zip. Unpack the zip file first.

On the page Special:Import follow these steps:

1. Select file and choose HW-LanguageSwitcher-en.xml.
2. Enter an Interwiki prefix. Since this field is required, simply add hw (for hallowelt).
3. Keep the selection Import to default locations.
4. Click Upload file... .

The template is now available in your wiki.

Pages included in the import

The xml import creates the following files in your wiki:

• Template:Languages
• Template:Languages/styles.css

Using the template

For the language switcher to work, you need to create the language versions of a page as the English pages subpages, e.g.:

• Vacation policy
• Vacation policy/de
• Vacation policy/fr

The template is added to each language version.

1. Add the template Languages from the VisualEditor insert-dialog.
2. Provide a display title if the page is a subpage. For example for the Vacation policy/de, enter "Urlaubsregelung":
   

   Setting a display title

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