Help:Interwikimedia links
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 |
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| Wikipedia | wikipedia:
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[[w:]]
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Template:Tlx
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| Wiktionary | [[wiktionary:]]
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[[wikt:]]
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Template:Tlx
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| Wikinews | [[wikinews:]]
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[[n:]]
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Template:Tlx
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| Wikibooks | [[wikibooks:]]
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[[b:]]
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Template:Tlx
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| Wikiquote | [[wikiquote:]]
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[[q:]]
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Template:Tlx
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| Wikisource | [[wikisource:]]
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[[s:]]
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Template:Tlx
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| Wikisource (common repository) | [[oldwikisource:]]
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Template:Tlx
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| Wikispecies | [[species:]]
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Template:Tlx
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| Wikiversity | [[wikiversity:]]
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[[v:]]
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Template:Tlx
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| Wikimedia Foundation | [[wikimedia:]]
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[[wmf:]]
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| Wikimedia Commons | [[commons:]]
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Template:Tlx
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| Wikimedia Meta-Wiki | [[meta:]]
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[[m:]]
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Template:Tlx
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| Strategic planning | [[strategy:]]
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| Wikimedia Incubator | [[incubator:]]
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Template:Tlx
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| MediaWiki | |
[[mw:]]
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Template:Tlx
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| MediaWiki Quality | [[quality:]]
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| Bugzilla (formerly MediaZilla) |
[[bugzilla:]][[mediazilla:]]
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| Nostalgia | [[nost:]]
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| Test Wikipedia | [[testwiki:]]
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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}}.