Template:Babel
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{{Babel}} is a template for showing the languages that you know, as well as the operating system, keyboard layout, web browser, desktop environment, and text editor that you are most comfortable with. Details of how to use it for its original purpose—showing the languages that you know—are at Wikipedia:Babel.
Usage
{{Babel|<box1>|<box2>|<box3>...}}
Parameters can be added using the {{!}} and {{=}} tricks:
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The Babel box prefixes its arguments with "User ", so it will work with the User: namespace:
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Set the nocat parameter to yes to suppress categories.
Custom styling
To customize the appearance you can add the optional parameters
|align=left- to display the babel box on the left side of the screen rather than the default right
|header=header- change header
|footer=footer- change wiki markup for footer, default is
[[:Category:Wikipedians by language|Search user languages]](which appears as Search user languages) |bordercolor=color- color of the border, default is #99B3FF
|color=color- background color, default is white
|textcolor=color- text color, default is black
|left=pixels- left margin in pixels, default is 1
|bottom=pixels- bottom margin in pixels, default is 0.5
|solid=pixels- solid border width, default is 1
|width=pixels- width of the box, default is 248
|extra-css=css-code- any other custom formatting
Columns and separators
- Use
!to start a new column after that point - Use
-to insert a blank row - Use
headto insert a header; usehead-mto insert a header without text - Use
lineto insert a horizontal ruler separator
For example,
{{Babel
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| header = Userboxes
| color = yellow
| head | en | fr-3 | ru-2
| line | zh-0 | ar-1 | !
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Copying template to other wikis
The page you are viewing right now is the actual Babel template. If you click "edit this page", you will see an invocation of Module:Babel, in Lua, that makes the Babel boxes work. What you're reading right now is just documentation for that code, transcluded inside "<noinclude>" tags so it doesn't interfere with the computer code.
In order to use Babel boxes in another Wikimedia project, you need both the template and the module. Click "view source" and copy all the contents, including the computer code. Create a page called "Template:Babel" on the other Wikimedia project and put the content into it. Do the same for the module.
You will also need to copy over a bunch of templates with names like "Template:User en", "Template:User en-1", "Template:User fr", and so on. Once you've done that, users can put, for example, "{{Babel|en-1|fr}}" on their user page, and the Babel boxes will be displayed.