Wikipedia:InterWikimedia links
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An interwikimedia link is a link from a Wikimedia project to another one (e.g., from Wikipedia to Wiktionary).
[edit] Shortcuts and templates to Wikimedia sister projects
Project | Long form | Shortcut | Main template | Pagename template |
---|---|---|---|---|
Wikipedia | [[wikipedia:]] |
[[w:]] |
{{Wikipedia}} |
{{Wikipedia|Pagename}} |
Wiktionary | [[wiktionary:]] |
[[wikt:]] |
{{Wiktionary}} |
{{Wiktionary|Pagename}} |
Wikinews | [[wikinews:]] |
[[n:]] |
{{Wikinews}} |
{{Wikinews|Pagename}} |
Wikibooks | [[wikibooks:]] |
[[b:]] |
{{Wikibooks}} |
{{Wikibooks|Pagename}} |
Wikiquote | [[wikiquote:]] |
[[q:]] |
{{Wikiquote}} |
{{Wikiquote|Pagename}} |
Wikisource | [[wikisource:]] |
[[s:]] |
{{Wikisource}} |
{{Wikisource|Pagename}} |
Wikispecies | [[wikispecies:]] |
{{Wikispecies}} |
{{Wikispecies|Pagename}} |
|
Wikiversity | [[wikiversity:]] |
[[v:]] |
{{Wikiversity}} |
{{Wikiversity|pagename}} |
Wikimedia Foundation | [[wikimedia:]] |
[[wmf:]] |
||
Wikimedia Commons | [[commons:]] |
{{Commons}} |
{{commons|Pagename}} |
|
Wikimedia Meta-Wiki | [[meta:]] |
[[m:]] |
{{meta|Pagename}} |
|
Wikimedia Incubator | [[incubator:]] |
{{Incubator}} |
{{Incubator|Pagename}} |
|
MediaWiki | [[mw:]] |
{{MediaWiki}} |
{{MediaWiki|Pagename}} |
|
MediaZilla | [[mediazilla:]] |
|||
Test Wikipedia | [[testwiki:]] |
The long form doesn't work within the same project. The shortcut does.
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.
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:]]
.
- Note: If you do not want the prefix to appear within the displayed text, simply add | at the end, like this: [[s:test|]], this will be automatically expanded to [[s:test|test]] on saving.
[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
- For instructions on linking a file from Commons to Wikipedia - How to reuse Commons files
- Meta-Wiki content:
- 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.