Wikipedia:InterWikimedia links

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

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[edit] 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:]]		 {{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}}
Wikimedia Incubator [[incubator:]] {{Incubator|Pagename}}
MediaWiki [[mw:]] {{MediaWiki|Pagename}}
MediaWiki Quality [[quality:]]
MediaZilla [[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.

[edit] 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 {{w}}
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}}.

[edit] 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:]].

[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