Sandbox

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Template:User/sandbox can be used for testing. Additional edit history for this template is contained there.

TemplateData

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This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:User in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for User

This template is used to create a link to a user's user page (unless using {{Useranon}}), talk page, and contributions, and generates a special notification (aka 'ping').

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
User name1 user

The user name that you want to create links to and notify.

Userrequired
Sister projectproject

Used to link to a sister project instead of the English Wikipedia. Use the standard interwiki prefix.

Suggested values
wiktionary wikinews wikibooks wikiquote wikisource wikispecies wikiversity wikivoyage foundation commons meta mediawikiwiki wikidata
Stringoptional
Other language projectlang

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.

Stringoptional
Separatorseparator

Used to change the separator between the links. If unused, defaults to a dot.

Unknownoptional