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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

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:]] {{WikisourceWiki|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}} Strategic planning [[strategy:]] Wikimedia Incubator [[incubator:]] {{Incubator|Pagename}} MediaWiki [[mw:]] {{MediaWiki|Pagename}} MediaWiki Quality [[quality:]] Bugzilla (formerly MediaZilla) [[bugzilla:]] [[mediazilla:]] Nostalgia [[nost:]] Test Wikipedia [[testwiki:]]

International chapters Shortcut Argentina [[wmar:]] Australia [[wmau:]] Canada [[wmca:]] Czech Republic [[wmcz:]] Germany [[wmde:]] Finland [[wmfi:]] Hong Kong [[wmhk:]] Hungary [[wmhu:]] India [[wmin:]] Indonesia [[wmid:]] Israel [[wmil:]] Italy [[wmit:]] Netherlands [[wmnl:]] Norway [[wmno:]] Poland [[wmpl:]] Russia [[wmru:]] Serbia [[wmrs:]] Sweden [[wmse:]] Switzerland [[wmch:]] Taiwan [[wmtw:]] United Kingdom [[wmuk:]]

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

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:]].

Secure server

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

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

• 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