W

Template documentation (for the above template, sometimes hidden or invisible)

{{w}} is a handly little shortcut that equates the following markup:

[[wikipedia:article name]] --> {{w|article name}}

Usage

{{w}} incorporates one kind of pipe trick. As long as the Wikipedia article is not disambiguated, then it will automatically get rid of the prepending "wikipedia:". Hence,

{{w|London}} results in

.

However, if the wikipedia title is disambiguated, you must type a little more. For instance,

{{w|London (band)}} renders

but

{{w|London (band)|London}} renders

For those interested in technical details, when you type {{w|London}}, our template is actually delivering the following code: [[wikipedia:London|London]].

In other iterations of this template around Wikia, it might instead be delivering this code: [[wikipedia:London|{{PAGENAME}}]], which is sometimes a very different thing.

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