Module:City/doc

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Summary

This module is intended for showing names of places, like cities or countries, in the language of the user and with a link to wikipedia article in that language if

Using this module from templates

city

This module should only be called from {{City}} template. Please call that template to access this module. Also see {{City}} template for full documentation

Usage:

{{#invoke:City|city|place=...|lang=...|link=...}}

Parameters:

1

place name

lang

language to show it in. Users language by default.

link

site to which the link should link to. Wikipedia by default. Other possible values:

• commons,
• wikidata
• - deactivate all links

Example:

{{#invoke:City|city|place=Paris|lang=en}} produces Paris

Using this module from Lua code

In order to use the functions in this module from another Lua module you first have to import this module.

Example:

local City = require('Module:City')._city

_city

Usage:

city_str = City(place,lang)

See Also

• {{City}}
• Module:City/data - data structure cataloging all known city names