official website (P856) (see uses)The purpose of this template is to provide a standard format for labeling links to the official website of an article's main topic.
This template can be used without specifying any parameters, if the "official website" Property (P856) is set in the respective article's Wikidata record. Just add {{official website}} to the article's External links section. If on Wikidata more than one official website is given, the entry tagged with the language being English is automatically preferred.
Two parameters are available:
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1= or URL= or url= is used to specify the URL. If this parameter is omitted, the value of "official website" Property (P856) on Wikidata is used.2= or name= is used to reformat the title if "Official website" is not suitable.Some URLs that contain special characters, such as & or =, will break the template. The solution is to prepend the URL with 1=
To the right of each example is the displayed output. Below each example is the actual output including <span>...</span> tags.
{{Official website|example.org}} → Official website<span class="official-website"><span class="url">[http://example.org Official website]</span></span>
{{Official website|www.example.org}} → Official website<span class="official-website"><span class="url">[http://www.example.org Official website]</span></span>
{{Official website|//www.example.org}} → Official website<span class="official-website"><span class="url">[//www.example.org Official website]</span></span>
{{Official website|http://www.example.org}} → Official website<span class="official-website"><span class="url">[http://www.example.org Official website]</span></span>
{{Official website|https://www.example.org}} → Official website<span class="official-website"><span class="url">[https://www.example.org Official website]</span></span>
{{Official website|1=https://example.org/?action=view}} → Official website<span class="official-website"><span class="url">[https://example.org/?action=view Official website]</span></span>
{{Official website|https://example.org|name=Example}} → Example<span class="official-website"><span class="url">[https://example.org Example]</span></span>
Usage in the article Amazon (company):
{{Official website}} → Official website <span class="official-website"><span class="url">[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/Template:Official_website/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.
Usage on any page without a URL in Wikidata property official website (P856):
{{Official website}} → No URL found. Please specify a URL here or add one to Wikidata. <strong class="error">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/Template:Official_website/Q5614958#P856|Edit this at Wikidata]]
TemplateData for Official website
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.
One of the following categories may be added to articles using this template (via Module: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 a title= 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: