Template:Infobox Swiss town/doc

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This is the infobox for articles about specific municipalities of Switzerland. There are more than 2700 articles using it.

Former municipalities use "type= former".

For a sample use, see Aarau

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[edit] Fields

Many infoboxes have been converted from the German or the French language wikipedia. The following table lists fields are (or used to be) equivalent.

Field en: Field de: Field fr:
subject_name= NAME_ORT= or BILDPFAD_WAPPEN= nomcommune= or drapeaucommune=
(municipality_name=) NAME_ORT= nomcommune=
(imagepath_coa=) BILDPFAD_WAPPEN= drapeaucommune=
(municipality_type=) GEMEINDEART=
canton= KANTON= canton= or (lien_canton=|affichage_canton=)
district= (with [[]]) BEZIRK = (with [[]]) district= or (lien_district=|affichage_district=)
nd=|nm=|ed=|em= BREITENGRAD =|LÄNGENGRAD= longitude=|latitude=
postal_code= PLZ = cp=
municipal_code= BFS = no_OFS=
population= EINWOHNER = habitants=
populationof= STAND_EINWOHNER =
(populationdensity=) densité=
area= FLÄCHE = superficie=
(area_magnitude=)
altitude= HÖHE = altitude=
mayor= (with [[]]) syndic/maire=
website= WEBSITE= siteweb=
(map= (with [[]])) BILDPFAD_KARTE= carte=
places= localité=
neighboring_municipalities= communeslimitrophes=
(language=) langue=
demonym= nom/gentilé=

Fields with names listed in parentheses are not currently displayed in this template and might never be, but they are assigned a name to facilitate conversion from fr: and de:.

[edit] Conversions

FROM TO
l. field content field content
de BILDPFAD_WAPPEN= imagepath_coa=
de STAND_EINWOHNER= 31. Dezember populationof= December

[edit] Current uses of fields

Some of the current uses of the fields:

  • subject_name: name of the municipality
  • district: name in format [[Place (district)|]]
  • imagepath_coa = (for [[:image:]])

[edit] See also