InterWikimedia links
From Electrical Engineering TA Handbook
Template:Shortcut 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 Template:Template
- 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 Wikipediaca:Ajuda:Enllaços entre viquipèdies
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