Template:Multilingual main boilerplate

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This is the boilerplate for template: Multilingual main; the infobox with the pink border. Use this template for generating an infobox in the 'mother' or 'parent' article or category; which covers (providing an overview of) a identical series (or collection) of separate wiki sites on the same subject matter which are available in differing wiki languages; such as Encyclopædiæ Pokémonis, JurisPedia, Metapedia, openSUSE, Touhou Wiki, Uncyclopedia, wikiHow, WikiMANNia, Wikipedia, Wiktionary (and other multilingual projects of separate wiki sites from the Wikimedia Foundation), Wikitravel, etc. The collective description for all of the separate wiki sites may be classified or named as a 'project' by their creator and / or owner; here on WikiIndex, will be categorised within 'Wiki Multilingual'.

This infobox template should also be used on an article or category page for a wiki site portal page; its URL typically (though not always) prefixed with 'www', such as www.Wikiversity.org (instead of its language identifier sub-domain, e.g. de.Wikiversity.org).

All external URLs in an infobox field must start with http:// or https://, whereas external links within the prose description may also use any existing interwiki link for external sites, along with conventional 'internal' wikilinks.

{{Multilingual main <!--see 'Template:Multilingual main' for full detail and hidden help advice-->
|name        = WikiPortalName –<br><small>''tagline''</small><!--if portal name differs from category name, and/or has tagline; otherwise, DELETE this field-->
|URL         = Portal URL<!--start with http:// or https:// e.g. https://www.WikiPortalURL.org-->
|logo        = [[File:NoLogo.png|Description of portal logo image|alt=]]<!--you may upload and wikilink, or hotlink to a URL-->
|wide logo   = <!--insert 'y' when the logo is too wide AND / OR the title is too long-->
|wikinode URL= No<!--https://www.WikiPortalURL.org/WikiNode, if none, use 'No'-->
|about URL   = No<!--https://www.WikiPortalURL.org/PORTALNAMESPACE:About, if none, use 'No'-->
|engine      = YourWikiEngine<!--software which all the wiki sites run on, e.g. Wikia, MediaWiki, Wikidot.com; see Category:Wiki engine-->
|maintopic   = YourWikiTopic<!--specific primary main topic of the project; e.g. Food, Law, How to, Parody, Encyclopaedia, Travel guide, etc-->
|license     = Portal license<!--optional, see Category:Wiki license, if NO license, use 'No license'-->
|parent      = <!--full legal name of parent company or owner, e.g. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.-->
}}<!--{{Language versions|}}--><!--list alphabetically by ISO two-(or more) letter language prefix IF articles use 'Wiki site (en)' naming scheme-->

{{Project navigation template|cat=no}}<!--e.g. {{Uncyclopedia|cat=no}}, {{Wikipedia|cat=no}}, etc-->
[[Category:Portal]]<!--ONLY if URL is a portal; see www.Wikipedia.org for example-->
Please add the year of founding of the wiki portal, or first wiki in the series, like so...
[[Category:Founded in YYYY]]<!--https://www.WikiPortalURL.org/index.php?title=Special:AncientPages-->

Select and highlight the text above in the blue/grey 'boilerplate', select copy the highlighted text (Ctrl-c, or -c on your keyboard), and then paste (Ctrl-c or -v) it at the top of the edit box of the relevant portal category, then amend the fields to the right of the = sign with the requested information on the specific wiki portal or series. Don't forget to click on the 'Show preview' button (alt-p (PC) or shift-esc-p (Mac) on your keyboard) to verify your edited detail is correct before saving (alt-s [PC] or shift-esc-s [Mac]).

Related templates
  • Template: Language versions may also be used to generate a textual navigation top banner with wikilinks to all sub-language versions (IF articles use 'Wiki site (en)' scheme);
  • Template: Wiki is used to generate the standard wiki article infobox;
  • Template: WikiApiary-farm is used to show readers here on this WikiIndex wiki site that there is an article page of the same, or similar name on the WikiApiary wiki site, listing those MediaWiki-powered wiki sites that are hosted on a specific wiki farm.