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The language inside templates is the same language as regular wiki markup, but template writers tend to use the more complex available functions such as #if: statements. See Wikipedia's Help:Template and Wikimedia's mw:Help:Template , including all of "advanced functioning" help pages listed toward the bottom of that page .
Note: When there is an ISO 639 language tag for the non-English text's language, use that tag; do not use |lang-name=. When ISO 639 does not have a language that applies to the non-English text use |lang-name= for the non-English language name. This template applies proper html markup to the non-English text only when given a proper language tag.
When using one of the Citation Style 1 or Citation Style 2 templates, instead of the {{In lang}} template, use the |language= parameter. This parameter accepts language names or language codes; see this list of supported names and codes. (Use of language codes is to be preferred because cs1|2 automatically renders language names in the language ...
{{Name in various languages}} is a newer version of this, with support for more languages. This template may be used to generate a collapsed list of official names for a multilingual institution. The primary application is for EU institutions.
The name of a template is the name of the wikipedia page (which is also the title of the page). The namespace is normally left off if it is "Template" (which it almost always is). Furthermore, it is customary to write the name with double braces, like a template call, to emphasize that it names a template.
For languages written right-to-left, like Arabic, Hebrew and other, it is advised to set |rtl={{rtl}} in the language template (e.g. lang-ar, lang-he). This adds the character U+200F RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK (‏) to the end of the string (the righthand side, in memory). It is an invisible formatting character, that terminates the R-to-L text ...
The language codes are converted to the full name of the language, thus fr becomes French in the category name string, de becomes German; and so on. Topic codes are usually expanded. For example, when used as part of a Category name, topic code geo becomes Geography, gov becomes Government and politics, and so on. The exact list of available ...
Use these templates on articles with translation-related cleanup issues. For articles with merely bad English or non-idiomatic phrases, where the issue isn't necessarily related to translation specifically, please consider a more general cleanup template as an alternative, such as {{}}: