Template:Quote-web/documentation

Usage

This template can be used in a dictionary entry to provide a quotation from a webpage. Do not use the template for online versions of books or journal articles (including magazines and newspapers) – use {{quote-book}} or {{quote-journal}} instead.

For citations in "References" sections and on talk pages, use {{cite-web}}.

Sample templates

Most commonly used parameters

#* {{quote-web|author=|authorlink=|title=|work=|url=|archiveurl=|archivedate=|location=|publisher=|date=|accessdate=|passage=|lang=}}

All available parameters

#* {{quote-web|indent=|author=|last=|first=|authorlink=|author2=|last2=|first2=|authorlink2=|author3=|last3=|first3=|authorlink3=|author4=|last4=|first4=|authorlink4=|author5=|last5=|first5=|authorlink5=|coauthors=|quotee=|translator=|translators=|title=|trans-title=|work=|trans-work=|url=|archiveurl=|archivedate=|format=|worklang=|location=|publisher=|month=|year=|year_pub lished=|date=|accessdate=|nodate=|page=|pages=|pageurl=|section=|sectionurl=|passage=|brackets=|translation=|transliteration=|lang=}}

Certain basic parameters can be used in the template without any named parameters, as follows:

#* {{quote-web|[date]|[author]|[title]|[work]|[url]|[passage]}}

This will not work if any of the parameters contains an equals ("=") sign. The value of any parameter containing an equals sign must be surrounded by <nowiki> tags, like this: "<nowiki>http://foo.com?id=bar</nowiki>". Alternatively, use a named parameter like url.

The following example:

{{quote-web|title=Why you should read the Madicken (Mardie) books|url=http://kattahj.tumblr.com/post/72567245752/i-made-a-presentation-on-madicken-because|work=Market Chipping|format=blog|date=7 January 2014|accessdate=8 March 2016|passage=Let me tell you about Madicken. (Mardie in English. Or Meg, but that’s in the American translation and that’s '''bowdlerized''' and you should never read it.)}}

produces this:

2014 January 7, “Why you should read the Madicken (Mardie) books”, in Market Chipping‎^[1] (blog), retrieved 8 March 2016:

Let me tell you about Madicken. (Mardie in English. Or Meg, but that’s in the American translation and that’s bowdlerized and you should never read it.)

Parameters

All parameters are optional except those marked "Mandatory", and may contain inline interwiki or external links as needed.

Parameter	Remarks
first and last or author	The name of the author of the webpage quoted. Use either author, or last and first (for the first name, and middle names or initials), not both. Additional authors can be added using the parameters author2 to author5, or last2 and first2 to last5 and first5.
authorlink	The name of an English Wikipedia article about the author, which will be linked to the name(s) specified using author, or first and last. Additional articles can be linked to other authors' names using the parameters authorlink2 to authorlink5. Do not add the prefix ":en:" or "w:". Alternatively, link each person's name directly, like this: "author=[[w:Kathleen Taylor (biologist)|Kathleen Taylor]]" or "author={{w|Samuel Johnson}}".
coauthors	The names of the coauthor(s) of the webpage. Separate multiple names with semicolons.
quotee	The name of the person being quoted, if the whole passage quoted is a quotation of someone other than the author.
trans, translator, or translators	The name(s) of the translator(s) of the webpage. Separate multiple names with semicolons.
title	The title of the webpage.
trans-title	If the title of the webpage is not in English, this parameter can be used to provide an English translation of the title.
url	The URL or web address of the webpage. Do not link to any webpage that has content in breach of copyright.
archiveurl and archivedate or accessdate	Use archiveurl and archivedate (which must be used together) to indicate the URL or web address of a webpage on a website such as the Internet Archive or Perma.cc at which the webpage has been archived, and the date on which the webpage was archived. Alternatively, if the webpage cannot be archived, use accessdate to indicate when its URL was accessed. (If the webpage has been archived, it is unnecessary to use this parameter.)
format	The format of the webpage, for example, "blog".
worklang	The language(s) that the website is written in. Either a single language code (see Wiktionary:List of languages) or the name(s) of the language(s) can be specified.
work	Mandatory: the name of the website containing the webpage. In addition to work, blog or site can also be used.
trans-work	If the name of the website is not in English, this parameter can be used to provide an English translation of the name.
location	The location(s) where the website was published. If more than one location is stated, separate the locations with semicolons, like this: "London; New York, N.Y.".
publisher	The name of one or more publishers of the website. If more than one publisher is stated, separate the names with semicolons.
date or year (and month)	The date, or year (and month), that the webpage was published. Use either date, or year (and month), not both. If no year or date is specified, the template first tries to use accessdate if this has been stated. If not, it displays the message "(Can we date this quote?)". The message can be suppressed using "nodate=yes", but rather than do so it is recommended that you use year to provide a date or approximate date, for example, "c. 2010–2011" or "After 2005".
year_published	If year is used to state the year when the original version of the webpage was published, year_published can be used to state the year in which the version quoted from was published, for example, "|year=2005|year_published=2015".
page or pages	The page number or range of page numbers of a document on the website. Use page to indicate a single page, and pages to indicate a range of pages. For example, "pages=1–2" will display "pages 1–2". Use an en dash to separate the page numbers in the range.
pageurl	The URL or web address of a specific page or pages of a document on the website. The page number(s) will be linked to this webpage.
section	Use this parameter to identify a page or other portion of a website that does not have page numbers.
sectionurl	The URL or web address of the webpage containing the section of the website referred to. The section number will be linked to this webpage.
passage	The portion of the website being quoted. Highlight the term defined in bold in the passage quoted like this: "'''cyberspace'''".
brackets	Use "brackets=on" to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.
translation	If the passage quoted is not in English, this parameter can be used to provide an English translation of it.
transliteration	If the passage quoted uses a different writing system from the Latin alphabet (the usual alphabet used in English), this parameter can be used to provide a transliteration of it into the Latin alphabet.
lang or language	A code indicating the language of the quotation; for a list of the codes, see Wiktionary:List of languages. The entry page will be added to a category in the form "Category:[Language] terms with quotations". Use |worklang= to specify the language(s) that that website itself is written in: see above.
indent	Instead of using wikitext outside the quotation template to indent it (for example, "#* {{quote-web|..."), you can use this parameter to specify the indent inside the template (for example, "{{quote-web|indent=#*|...")

Technical information

This template makes use of {{quote-meta}} and {{quote-meta/source}}.

See also

• {{cite-web}} – for citations in reference sections and on talk pages