The purpose of this template is to provide a standard format for labeling links to the official website of an article's main topic.
Usage
Basic usage
This template can be used without specifying any parameters, if the"official website" Property (P856) is set in the respective article'sWikidata record. Just add{{official website}} to the article'sExternal links section. If on Wikidata more than one official website is given, the entry tagged with thelanguage beingEnglish is automatically preferred.
If this parameter is not specified and there is no official website available on Wikidata, the page is added toCategory:Official website missing URL.
|2= or|name= is used to reformat the title if "Official website" is not suitable.
NOTE: This name should succinctly and accurately describe the external linkin relation to the subject. In particular, it shouldnot include the article subject's name as the reader reasonably expects that all external links pertain to the subject.
Some URLs that contain special characters, such as& or=, will break the template. The solution is to prepend the URL with1=
Examples
URL in template
To the right of each example is the displayed output. Below each example is the actual output including<span>...</span> tags.
<span><span>[https://www.amazon.com Official website]</span></span> [[File:OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg |frameless |text-top |10px |alt=Edit this at Wikidata |link=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3884#P856|Edit this at Wikidata]]
Note: If Wikidata holds two or more values in different languages, websites in English will be preferred. The module also prefers websites with a "preferred" Wikidata rank. If multiple websites are otherwise equally ranked in the module's criteria, the module will choose the website listed first.
{{Official website}} →No URL found. Please specify a URL here or add one to Wikidata.
<strong>No URL found. Please specify a URL here or add one to Wikidata.</strong> [[File:OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg |frameless |text-top |10px |alt=Edit this at Wikidata |link=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5614958#P856|Edit this at Wikidata]]
This template provides a standard format for labeling links to official websites, stating "Official website" with the website linked. If no parameters are set in this template, the template will use the official website entered into Wikidata, if available.
Leave this blank to use a URL entered into Wikidata. If there is no Wikidata URL or to override the Wikidata URL, entering a URL in this field will cause the template to link to this entered field.
Default
Wikidata property P856
Example
https://example.com
URL
optional
Display text
name2
If left blank, the template text will display the words "Official website" with the URL linked to it. This field should usually be left blank. If there's another webpage that could reasonably understood as the official website and needs to be distinguished from the link in this template, replacement text can displayed by entering it into this field.
Default
Official website
Example
Publisher's website
String
optional
Tracking categories
One of the following categories may be added to articles using this template (viaModule:Official website):
It's possible that a URL no longer references hosted content, or ends up hosting different content than intended. In this case, the{{Official website}} should be replaced with an invocation of{{webarchive}} with atitle= parameter of "Official website". For example:{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051222144340/http://en.wikipedia.org/ |date=2005-12-22 |title=Official website}}. Such an invocation appears as:
