Template:World Sailing/sandbox

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Template:World Sailing displays an external link to a sailor's profile at an official website of World Sailing (formerly the International Sailing Federation or ISAF), the international governing body for the sport of sailing. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.

Usage

id parameter

Used with the Sailor ID, an alphanumeric string starting with a three letter country code, followed by two letters for the sailor's initials, and sometimes followed by number to differentiate sailors in the same country with the same initials.

Using page name as link text: {{World Sailing | id= }}

Using name parameter as link text: {{World Sailing | id= | name= }}

Examples of URLs with Sailor ID at current website: www.sailing.org/sailor/?ref=ESPFE – Fernando Echávarri; www.sailing.org/sailor/?ref=AUSER1 – Elise Rechichi

Examples of URLs with Member ID at former website: members.sailing.org/biog.php?id=ESPFE (archived); members.sailing.org/biog.php?id=AUSER1 (archived); data-isaf.soticcloud.net/biog.php?id=ESPFE (archive); data-isaf.soticcloud.net/biog.php?id=AUSER1 (archive)

unnamed or www parameter

Used for everything after www.sailing.org/sailor/ in the URL displayed when searching for a sailor at www.sailing.org.

Using page name as link text: {{World Sailing | WWW }}; {{World Sailing | www= }}

Using name parameter as link text: {{World Sailing | WWW | NAME }}; {{World Sailing | www= | name= }}

Examples of short URL (can use unnamed or www parameter): www.sailing.org/sailor/fernando-echvarri-erasun; www.sailing.org/sailor/elise-rechichi

Examples of full URL (requires www parameter): www.sailing.org/sailor/fernando-echvarri-erasun?ref=ESPFE; www.sailing.org/sailor/elise-rechichi?ref=AUSER1

Wikidata property

Using Wikidata property World Sailing sailor ID (P11616) or World Sailing member ID (archived) (P2804).

Using page name as link text: {{World Sailing}}

Using name parameter as link text: {{World Sailing | name= }}

Examples of URLs with Member ID at former website: members.sailing.org/biog.php?memberid=29777 (archived) – Fernando Echávarri; members.sailing.org/biog.php?memberid=38836 (archived) – Elise Rechichi; data-isaf.soticcloud.net/biog.php?memberid=29777 (archive); data-isaf.soticcloud.net/biog.php?memberid=38836 (archive)

Examples

Using page name as link text

Usage in the article Peter Burling (sailor): * {{World Sailing | id= NZLPB2 }}; * {{World Sailing | peter-burling }}; * {{World Sailing | peter-burling | id= NZLPB2 }}; * {{World Sailing | www= peter-burling | id= NZLPB2 }}; * {{World Sailing | www= peter-burling?ref=NZLPB2 }}

Output

URLs in template: https://www.sailing.org/sailor/?ref=NZLPB2; https://www.sailing.org/sailor/peter-burling; https://www.sailing.org/sailor/peter-burling?ref=NZLPB2

Using name parameter as link text

Usage: * {{World Sailing | id= GBRHM15 | name= Hannah Mills }}; * {{World Sailing | hannah-mills | Hannah Mills }}; * {{World Sailing | hannah-mills | Hannah Mills | id= GBRHM15 }}; * {{World Sailing | www= hannah-mills | id= GBRHM15 | name= Hannah Mills }}; * {{World Sailing | www= hannah-mills?ref=GBRHM15 | name= Hannah Mills }}

Output

URLs in template: https://www.sailing.org/sailor/?ref=GBRHM15; https://www.sailing.org/sailor/hannah-mills; https://www.sailing.org/sailor/hannah-mills?ref=GBRHM15

No parameters and Wikidata property not defined

Usage: * {{World Sailing}}

Output

{{World Sailing}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for World Sailing

This template displays an external link to a sailor's profile at an official website of World Sailing (formerly the International Sailing Federation or ISAF), the international governing body for the sport of sailing. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
id	`id`	Sailor ID, such as GBRHM15. Default Wikidata property P11616	String	optional
www	`www` `1`	Everything following www.sailing.org/sailor/, such as hannah-mills or hannah-mills?ref=GBRHM15.	String	optional
name	`name` `2`	The link text, which should be the sailor's name. This parameter is optional; it defaults to the Wikipedia article name, without any disambiguation such as "(sailor)". Default {{PAGENAMEBASE}}	String	optional

Tracking categories

External links

Sailor search page at www.sailing.org

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Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
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