Wikipedia:InterWikimedia links
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An interwikimedia link is a link from a Wikimedia Foundation project to another one (e.g., from Wikipedia to Wiktionary).
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[edit] Shortcuts and templates to Wikimedia sister projects
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.
[edit] Suppressing 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.
[edit] 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:]].
[edit] 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.
[edit] See also
- Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects, guideline for using Wikipedia's sister projects
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Sister projects, templates for linking between the various Wikimedia sister projects
- Help:Interlanguage links, describes how to link between differing foreign language Wikipedias
- Help:Contents/Links, table of contents for help pages about links and references
- mw:Help:Interwiki linking, help page from MediaWiki
- Meta-Wiki content:
- m:Help:Interwiki linking
- m:Interwiki map, list of WMF and non-WMF mappings
- commons:Commons:First steps/Reuse, instructions on linking a file from Commons to Wikipedia
