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To link sister projects using traditional inline text links see Wikipedia:Interwikimedia link.

This page lists templates that are designed to provide article-to-article linking between Wikipedia and its Wikimedia sister projects. It also provides links to pages concerning moving articles between projects.

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Guidelines

Wikipedia encourages links to sister projects and interlanguage links when possible. However, links to sister projects should not be used excessively.

Link to sister projects are best placed in the actual section of the article that they relate to. (Such as, for examples: next to any discussion of quotations for a link to Wikiquote, or next to the event that they source for a link to Wikinews.) In some cases, such as disambiguation articles, they are best placed in the article's introduction.

If sister project name is Foo:

  • {{Move to Foo}} - move to foo
  • {{Foo}} - article in Foo with same title is about the same topic.
  • {{Foopar|Pagename}} - Pagename in Foo is about the same topic.
    • par is used generally in the template name to point to a concrete page name in a sister project (i.e. {{wikiquotepar|somepage}}). If a number is used, it indicates the numbers of links (i.e. <nowiki>{{wikiquotepar2|somepage1|somepage2}} , to link to two pages).
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Sister Projects template

{{wikipediasister}} shows nice selection of sister projects.


Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that operates several other multilingual and free-content projects:

Wiktionary
Dictionary and thesaurus		 Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals		 Wikiquote
Collection of quotations		 Wikisource
The free library
Wikispecies
Directory of species		 Wikinews
Free content news source		 Commons
Shared media repository		 Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia project coordination
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Specific Projects

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Wikiquote

Pages nominated for copying to Wikiquote:

Links to pages to the Wikiquote site:

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This page is a candidate to be copied to Wikiquote.
If the page can be expanded into an encyclopedic article, rather than a list of quotes, please do so and remove this message. Otherwise, you can help by formatting it per the Wikiquote guidelines in preparation for the move.

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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

{{wikiquote}} - provides link that invokes a search of Wiktionary, using the current page's name ({{PAGENAME}})

 either the Quotes or External links section
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

{{wikiquote|Duke Nukem}} - provides a link to a specific Wiktionary page for the given word (1st parameter). Uses that parameter as the display name.

{{wikiquote|The Simpsons#Bart Simpson|Bart Simpson}} - provides a link to a specific Wikitionary page (1st parameter) and an optional display name (2nd parameter)

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
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Wiktionary

Pages nominated for copying to Wiktionary:

Links to pages on the Wiktionary site:

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This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary.
The information in this article appears to be more suited for a dictionary rather than an encyclopedia. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, but Wiktionary is. Please verify that this article meets the Wiktionary criteria for inclusion. If this article can be modified to be more than a dictionary entry, please do so and remove this message.

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Look up Sister projects in Wiktionary, the free dictionary

{{wiktionary}} - provides link that invokes a search of Wiktionary, using the current page's name ({{PAGENAME}})
  • At the top of the page for disambiguation pages).
  • Next to any cross-reference to Wiktionary, if there is one.
Look up sophisticated in Wiktionary, the free dictionary

{{wiktionary|sophisticated}} - provides a link to a specific Wiktionary page for the given word (1st parameter). Uses that parameter as the display name.

{{wiktionary|hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia|hippopotomon- strosesquippedaliophobia}} - provides a link to a specific Wikitionary page (1st parameter) and an optional display name (2nd parameter)

Look up hippopotomon- strosesquippedaliophobia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary
{{Wiktionarypar}}

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{{wiktionarypar|first-word}}

Look up first-word in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
 As above. Uses parameters for manual links direct to specific articles.
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{{wiktionarypar2|first-word|second-word}}

Look up first-word and second-word in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
 As above. Uses parameters for manual links direct to specific articles.
{{Wiktionarypar3}}

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{{wiktionarypar3|first-word|second-word|third-word}}

Look up first-word, second-word, and third-word in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
 As above. Uses parameters for manual links direct to specific articles.
{{Wiktionarypar4}}

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{{wiktionarypar4|first-word|second-word|third-word|fourth-word}}

Look up first-word, second-word, third-word, and fourth-word in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
 As above. Uses parameters for manual links direct to specific articles.
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There is currently no encyclopedia article for Sister projects on Wikipedia.

Please try searching Wiktionary for a dictionary definition of the term "Sister projects".

To begin an article here, feel free to edit this page, but please do not create merely a dictionary definition.
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Wikibooks

Pages nominated for copying to Wikibooks:

Links to pages to the Wikibooks site:

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This page is a candidate to be copied to Wikibooks.
If the page can be re-written into an encyclopedic article, please do so and remove this message.

Before you move this content to Wikibooks, verify that it conforms to Wikibooks policies of acceptable content at What is Wikibooks?. Often content unacceptable to Wikipedia may not be acceptable on Wikibooks as well.

You should also follow Transwiki guidelines when transfering content and move the article into the transwiki namespace on Wikibooks, entering a log entry at wikibooks:Wikibooks:Transwiki log to let the people at Wikibooks know that you have new content on Wikibooks. Failure to follow these guidelines may result in the content transfered to Wikibooks to simply be deleted as vandalism and spam.

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Wikibooks
Wikibooks has more about this subject:
  • {{wikibooks}}
  • Placed next to an appropriate section, if there is one. Links to annotated works next to the Plot or Synopsis section, for example.
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic link.
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Wikibooks
Wikibooks has more about this subject:




{{Wikibookspage|How to make biodiesel}}
  • The parameter is the Wikibooks page.
  • Placed next to an appropriate section, if there is one. Links to annotated works next to the Plot or Synopsis section, for example.
  • Uses parameter for a manual link.
{{Wikibookspar}}

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Wikibooks
Wikibooks has more about this subject:

{{Wikibookspar||Astronomy}}
(note missing first parameter, for a book not part of a specific collection)

Wikibooks
Wikibooks Cookbook has more about this subject:

{{Wikibookspar|Cookbook|Soups}}

Wikibooks
Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject:

{{Wikibookspar|Wikiversity|School of Education}}
  • First parameter is the Section, second is the title. See examples.
  • Placed next to an appropriate section, if there is one. Links to recipes next to a section discussing the creation of a dish, for example.
  • Uses parameter for a manual link.
{{Wikibookschapter}}

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Wikibooks

{{wikibookschapter|book=Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter|chapter=Books/Half-Blood Prince|name=Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
  • Parameters are the main book name, the sub-page for the specific chapter, and the name to display for the link
  • Placed next to an appropriate section, if there is one.
  • Uses parameter for a manual link.
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Wikipedia does not have an article on this topic, but Wikibooks does Transwiki:Packages in Java
  • For articles which have been deleted, but where the article has been transwikied to Wikibooks
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Wikisource

Pages nominated for copying to Wikisource:

Links to pages to the Wikisource site:

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This page is a candidate to be copied to Wikisource.
If the page can be edited into an encyclopedic article, rather than merely a copy of the source text, please do so and remove this message. Otherwise, you can help by formatting it per the Wikisource guidelines in preparation for the move.

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{{wikisource}} - provides link that invokes a search of Wikisource, using the current page's name ({{PAGENAME}})

Wikisource has original text related to this article:
adjoining a body reference to the source or in the External links section with other sister project links

{{wikisource|William Wilson}} - provides a link to a specific Wiktionary page for the given word (1st parameter). Uses that parameter as the display name.

Wikisource has original text related to this article:

{{wikisource|Aesop's Fables-2#The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf|The Boy Who Cried Wolf}} - provides a link to a specific Wikitionary page (1st parameter) and an optional display name (2nd parameter)

Wikisource has original text related to this article:
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{{Wikisourcelang|fr|Voltaire|Voltaire}}

Wikisource
Wikisource has original text related to this article:

Parameters

  1. language code
  2. destination page name
  3. displayed text
 adjoining a body reference to the source or in the External links section with other sister project links
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{{Wikisourceold|Ústava České republiky|Constitution of the Czech Republic}}

Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Links to languages without own domain.

Parameters

  1. destination page name
  2. displayed text
 adjoining a body reference to the source or in the External links section with other sister project links
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{{wikisource author}} - Links to Author: page, using the current page's name ({{PAGENAME}})

Wikisource
Wikisource has original works written by or about:
External links section of author biographies

{{wikisource author|James Joyce}} - provides a link to a specific Wiktionary page for the given word (1st parameter). Uses that parameter as the display name.

Wikisource
Wikisource has original works written by or about:

{{Wikisource author|George Herbert Walker Bush|George H. W. Bush}} - provides a link to a specific Wikitionary page (1st parameter) and an optional display name (2nd parameter)

Wikisource
Wikisource has original works written by or about:
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{{Wikisourcecat|Hymns}}

Wikisource has several original texts related to:
External links section
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{{Wikisource1911Enc|Insert title here}}

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{{WikisourceEBD1897|Insert title here}}

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Wikimedia Commons

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This page is a candidate to be moved to the Wikimedia Commons.
Wikipedia is not a collection of photographs or media files with no text to go with the articles. If you are interested in presenting a picture, please provide an encyclopedic context. You may also want to consider changing this page's title to better suit an encyclopedia entry.

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Note: if the file on the Commons has the same name use {{NowCommonsThis}} or {{NCT}}
  • {{NowCommons|Image:ImageName.jpg}}
  • Placed at bottom of image description
  • Allows identification of moved files
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic categorizing ([[Category:NowCommons|Pagename]]).
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  • {{Commons|insert media page title here}}
  • Placed next to the appropriate section, if there is one.
  • Uses parameter {{{1}}}} for linking to a specific Commons page and {{PAGENAME}}for displayed link.
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  • {{Commonscat|Insert category name here}}
  • Bottom of article (typically in External links).
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Wikinews

Moving pages to Wikinews is not possible, for legal reasons. (Copying material to Wikinews would put it under the CC-BY license, which violates the GFDL.) However Wikinews articles can be moved to wikipedia.

Links to pages on the Wikinews site:

  • Box format
  • To link in-line with other text, create an interwiki link in the format: [[Wikinews:SomeArticleTitle|reference to the Wikinews article]].
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Wikinews
Wikinews has news related to this article:
  • {{wikinews|insert article name here}}
  • Placed next to the discussion of the event.
  • Uses parameter (i.e. insert article name here) for a manual link.
  • For multiple news articles, use {{Wikinewshas}} to save repetition.
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Wikinews
Wikinews has news related to:
  • {{Wikinewscat|Insert category name here}}
  • Placed next to the discussion of the event.
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Wikinews
Wikinews has an entire section of news on:
  • {{Wikinewsportal|Insert portal name here}}
  • Placed on relevent article about place or topic near external links.
{{Wikinewspar2}}

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Wikinews
  • {{Wikinewspar2|Insert page name 1 here|Insert page name 2 here}}
  • Placed next to the discussion of the event.
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Wikinews
Wikinews has insert description here:
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  • Insert interwiki link to article 2 here
  • Insert interwiki link to article 3 here
  • Insert interwiki link to article 4 here
  • {{wikinewshas|insert description here| *Insert interwiki link to article 1 here *Insert interwiki link to article 2 here *Insert interwiki link to article 3 here *Insert interwiki link to article 4 here }}
  • Placed next to the discussion of the event.
  • Allows multiple articles to be condensed into a list.
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Wikispecies

Links to pages on the Wikispecies site:

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Wikispecies has information related to:
  • {{Wikispecies|insert word here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses parameter for a manual link.
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Meta-Wiki

Links to pages on the Meta site:

  • Box format
    • Template:Meta (uses parameter as in {{Template:Meta|SomePage}})
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Meta has a page about this at:
  • {{Meta|insert word here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Parameter is optional, defaults to PAGENAME
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All Wikimedia Sister projects in box

Links to pages on all Wikimedia Sister projects using a single box:

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Look up Sister projects in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up Sister projects in Wikinews, the free news. Look up Sister projects in Wikiquote, the free quotations. Look up Sister projects in Wikibooks, the free books. Look up Sister projects in Wikisource, the free source. Look up Sister projects in Commons, the free repository. Look up Sister projects in Wikispecies, directory of species.
  • {{Wikimedia}}.
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in Internal or External links).
  • Cannot use parameters for a manual link, because the link is automatic.
  • Coordinated and coherent (used in all the wikimedia sisterprojects and in the same way).
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Find more information on Page name here by searching one of Wikipedia's sister projects:

Dictionary definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews
  • {{Sisterlinks|Page name here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Needs manual parameter
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All wikimedia projects
Articles and media on this topic in other Wikimedia projects can be found at: Commons Wikipedia Sister projects
  • {{Sisterlinkswp|Page name here}}
  • Placed at the top of a category, or at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Needs manual parameter
  • Part of the Sisterlink project
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Metapages in Wikimedia Sister projects

Links to pages on all Wikimedia Sister projects metapages using a single box:

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Look up Sister projects in the metapage of Wiktionary. Look up Sister projects in the metapage of Wikinews. Look up Sister projects in the metapage of Wikiquote. Look up Sister projects in the metapage of Wikibooks. Look up Sister projects in the metapage ofWikisource. Look up Sister projects in the metapage of Commons. Look up Sister projects in the metapage of Wikispecies.
  • {{Wikimedia}}.
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in Internal or External links).
  • Cannot use parameters for a manual link, because the links are automatic.
  • Coordinated and coherent (used in all the wikimedia sisterprojects and in the same way).
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Text Shortcut links

See Wikipedia:Interwikimedia link

The following should be used sparingly since they are not guaranteed to remain in use and they make the wikitext harder to read than the full versions:

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See also

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sister_projects"
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