Latest revision as of 07:13, 19 June 2011

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

Shortcuts and templates to Wikimedia sister projects[edit]

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 adding the language code: [[:s:de:Salz]] will link to the German-language Wikisource, [[:wikt:fr:sel]] to the French-language Wiktionary, etc. For the language codes see List of wikipedias.

Suppressing the prefix[edit]

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[edit]

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:]].

Secure server[edit]

Links created by the methods described on this page always point to the normal servers. For methods to make links that use the secure server see Wikipedia:Secure server and {{sec link auto}}.

Examples[edit]

[[:en:Main Page]]
[[:de:Hauptseite]]

[[commons:Main Page]]

[[commons:category:Wikimedia]]

[[wikibooks:Main Page|]]

[[wikt:de:Rechner]]

[[wiktionary: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[edit]

• 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
• Help:Interwiki linking, more help to link to other projects
• 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 Wikipediaca:Viquipèdia:Enllaços entre viquipèdies

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