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An interwikimedia link is a link from a Wikimedia project to another one (e.g., from Wikipedia to Wiktionary).
Contents |
Shortcuts and templates to Wikimedia sister projects
| Project | Long form | Shortcut | Pagename template |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | [[wikipedia:]] |
[w:] |
{{Wikipedia|Pagename}} |
| Wiktionary | [wiktionary:] |
[wikt:] |
{{Wiktionary|Pagename}} |
| Wikinews | [wikinews:] |
[n:] |
{{Wikinews|Pagename}} |
| Wikibooks | [wikibooks:] |
[b:] |
{{Wikibooks|Pagename}} |
| Wikiquote | [wikiquote:] |
[q:] |
{{Wikiquote|Pagename}} |
| Wikisource | [wikisource:] |
[s:] |
{{Wikisource|Pagename}} |
| Wikispecies | [species:] |
{{Wikispecies|Pagename}} |
|
| Wikiversity | [wikiversity:] |
[v:] |
{{Wikiversity|pagename}} |
| Wikimedia Foundation | [wikimedia:] |
[wmf:] |
|
| Wikimedia Commons | [commons:] |
{{Commons|Pagename}} |
|
| Wikimedia Meta-Wiki | [meta:] |
[m:] |
{{Meta|Pagename}} |
| Wikimedia Incubator | [incubator:] |
{{Incubator|Pagename}} |
|
| MediaWiki | [mw:] |
{{MediaWiki|Pagename}} |
|
| MediaWiki Quality | [quality:] |
||
| Bugzilla (formerly MediaZilla) |
[bugzilla:][mediazilla:] |
||
| Nostalgia | [nost:] |
||
| Test Wikipedia | [testwiki:] |
Some links don't work as expected within the same project, e.g., meta:Test on Meta itself would mean m:Meta:Test, a different page. Outside of Wikimedia sister projects only metawikipedia:Test might work for m:Test.
Links to foreign-language Wikiprojects can be made by prefixing the language code: [[:de:s:]] will link to the German-language Wikisource, [[:fr:wikt:]] to the French-language Wiktionary, etc.
Suppressing the prefix
There are two ways to suppress the prefix:
- The Pipe trick
- Add | at the end of the link, like this: [[s:test|]], which will automatically be expanded to [[s:test|test]] on saving.
- The template {{w}}
- This template, found on most Wikimedia projects, allows one to link to Wikipedia without either printing the "w:" prefix, nor needing to repeat the title. Thus instead of [[w:Page Name|Page Name]], one may write: {{w|Page Name}}.
Special versions of Wikipedia
There are also two special versions of Wikipedia, nostalgia and test. Nostalgia is a static copy of Wikipedia as it was in 2001, and can be linked to by using [[nost:]]. Test is a version of Wikipedia for edit and software testing, and can be linked to by using [[testWiki:]].
Examples
| Wikitext | Results |
|---|---|
[[:en:Main Page]] [[:de:Hauptseite]]etc. |
en:Main Page de:Hauptseite etc. |
[[commons:Main Page]] |
commons:Main Page |
[[commons:category:Wikimedia]] |
commons:category:Wikimedia |
[[wikibooks:Main Page|]] |
Main Page |
[[wikt:de:Rechner]] |
wikt:de:Rechner |
[[wiktionary:de:Rechner|]] |
de:Rechner |
As demonstrated above by the double prefixes (for example [[wikt:de:Main Page]]), links may cumulate, thus enabling links that are not possible with a single prefix, for example linking a word in the English Wikipedia to a term in the German Wiktionary.
See also
- Help:Interlanguage links describes how to link to a different language Wikipedia.
- Help:Contents/Links has links to articles about all types of Wikimedia links.
- Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects has lists of templates for linking to other Wikimedia projects from related articles.
- Help:Interwiki linking, a help page from the MediaWiki wiki.
- Meta-Wiki content:
- Help:Interwiki linking
- Interwiki map, list of WMF and non-WMF mappings
- Reuse - How to reuse Commons files for instructions on linking a file from Commons to Wikipedia
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 13 August 2008, at 17:42.
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