Wikipedia:Interwikimedia link
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An interwikimedia link is a link from a Wikimedia project to another one (e.g. from Wikipedia to Wiktionary).
[edit] Project titles and shortcuts
| Project | Long form | Shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | [[wikipedia:]] |
[[w:]] |
| Wiktionary | [[wiktionary:]] |
[[wikt:]] |
| Wikinews | [[wikinews:]] |
[[n:]] |
| Wikibooks | [[wikibooks:]] |
[[b:] |
| Wikiquote | [[wikiquote:]] |
[[q:]] |
| Wikisource | [[wikisource:]] |
[[s:]] |
| Wikispecies | [[wikispecies:]] |
|
| Wikiversity | [[v:]] |
|
| Wikimedia Foundation | [[wikimedia:]] |
|
| Wikimedia Commons | [[commons:]] |
|
| Wikimedia Meta-Wiki | [[meta:]] |
[[m:]] |
| Wikimedia Incubator | [[incubator:]] |
|
| MediaWiki | [[mw:]] |
|
| MediaZilla | [[mediazilla:]] |
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.
[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
- meta:Help:Interwiki linking
- Wikipedia: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:Sister projects has lists of templates for linking to other Wikimedia projects from related articles.
- mw:Help:Interwiki linking
- meta:Interwiki map
