Help:Interwikimedia links

An interwikimedia link is a link from a Wikimedia project to another one (e.g., from Wikipedia to Wiktionary).

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}}
Wikisource (common repository)	[[oldwikisource:]]		{{Oldwikisource|Pagename}}
Wikispecies	[[species:]] [[wikispecies:]]		{{Wikispecies|Pagename}}
Wikiversity	[[wikiversity:]]	[[v:]]	{{Wikiversity|pagename}}
Wikimedia Foundation	[[wikimedia:]] [[foundation:]]	[[wmf:]]
Wikimedia Commons	[[commons:]]		{{Commons|Pagename}}
Wikimedia Meta-Wiki	[[meta:]] [[metawikipedia:]]	[[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

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.

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