((country data (({1))}|getalias/core|name=|variant=))
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Usage
This is a meta-template that is not intended to be transcluded directly from the main article space. It can be used to construct other templates that need to extract the |alias= value from the specified country_data structure, so that customized wikilinks can be constructed. For example, ((getalias|USA)) → "United States".
Different parameter values can be extracted using the second unnamed parameter. Use shortname as a second parameter to retrieve the |shortname alias= value if desired. For example, ((getalias|IRL)) → "Republic of Ireland", but ((getalias|IRL|shortname)) → "Ireland". To extract the flag image name (|flag alias=), use flag as second parameter: ((getalias|CHN|flag)) → "Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg". The output defaults to the |alias= value if the desired |xxx alias= is undefined in the target template.
A third parameter can specify the variant; for example, [[File:((getalias|United States|flag|1912))|22px]] → .svg){kind=small}
returns the image defined as |flag alias-1912= in ((Country data United States)). The variant parameter can also be used to extract the link used with military and sports templates (e.g. ((army)), ((fb))): ((getalias|UK|link|army)) → British Army.
See also
- ((getalias2)), a more general version that can extract
|size=and|border=as well - ((ISO 3166 name))