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| − | {{country data {{{1}}}|country get alias2|name={{{2|}}}|variant={{{3|}}}}}<noinclude> | + | {{country data {{{1}}}|country get alias2|name={{{2|}}}|variant={{{variant|{{{3|}}}}}}}}<noinclude> |
{{Documentation, template|content=This is a meta-template that is not intended to be transcluded directly from the main article space. It can be used to construct other templates that need to extract the <tt>alias</tt> value from the specified <tt>[[:Category:Country data templates|country_data]]</tt> structure, so that customized wikilinks can be constructed. For example, <tt><nowiki>{{getalias|USA}}</nowiki></tt> → "{{getalias|USA}}". Use <tt>shortname</tt> as a second parameter to retrieve the <tt>shortname alias</tt> value if desired. For example, <tt><nowiki>{{getalias|CHN}}</nowiki></tt> → "{{getalias|CHN}}", but <tt><nowiki>{{getalias|CHN|shortname}}</nowiki></tt> → "{{getalias|CHN|shortname}}". A third parameter can specify the variant, for example <nowiki>[[Image:{{getalias|USA|flag|1912}}|22px]]</nowiki> -> [[Image:{{getalias|USA|flag|1912}}|22px]] }} | {{Documentation, template|content=This is a meta-template that is not intended to be transcluded directly from the main article space. It can be used to construct other templates that need to extract the <tt>alias</tt> value from the specified <tt>[[:Category:Country data templates|country_data]]</tt> structure, so that customized wikilinks can be constructed. For example, <tt><nowiki>{{getalias|USA}}</nowiki></tt> → "{{getalias|USA}}". Use <tt>shortname</tt> as a second parameter to retrieve the <tt>shortname alias</tt> value if desired. For example, <tt><nowiki>{{getalias|CHN}}</nowiki></tt> → "{{getalias|CHN}}", but <tt><nowiki>{{getalias|CHN|shortname}}</nowiki></tt> → "{{getalias|CHN|shortname}}". A third parameter can specify the variant, for example <nowiki>[[Image:{{getalias|USA|flag|1912}}|22px]]</nowiki> -> [[Image:{{getalias|USA|flag|1912}}|22px]] }} | ||
[[Category:Flag template system|{{PAGENAME}}]] | [[Category:Flag template system|{{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
</noinclude> | </noinclude> | ||
Revision as of 01:39, 7 November 2008
{{country data {{{1}}}|country get alias2|name=|variant=}}
This is a meta-template that is not intended to be transcluded directly from the main article space. It can be used to construct other templates that need to extract the alias value from the specified country_data structure, so that customized wikilinks can be constructed. For example, {{getalias|USA}} → "United States". Use shortname as a second parameter to retrieve the shortname alias value if desired. For example, {{getalias|CHN}} → "China", but {{getalias|CHN|shortname}} → "China". A third parameter can specify the variant, for example [[Image:{{getalias|USA|flag|1912}}|22px]] ->
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