Wikipedia:Interwikimedia link

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An Interwikimedia link is a link from a wikimedia project to another one (i.e from Wikipedia to Wiktionary or vice versa).

Within Wikimedia, linking to a page of another project is possible with internal link style, with a prefix for the other project ("prefixed internal link style").

The following rules apply:

• links like this are possible ("Main Page" and "de:" are just examples):
  • , de:Hauptseite, etc. - language version of Wikipedia, unless the link is from a Wiktionary, then the language version of Wiktionary.
  • w:Main Page - English Wikipedia
  • w:de:Hauptseite - German Wikipedia (also from a Wiktionary)
  • wiktionary:Main Page - English Wiktionary
  • wiktionary:de:Hauptseite - German Wiktionary
  • m:Main Page - Meta
  • wikibooks:Main Page - Wikibooks
  • wikiquote:Main Page
  • m:wikisource:Main Page

• a prefix that is "superfluous", because it refers to the same project, is allowed in the case of the prefix en:, de:, etc., w:, and m:, but not for the prefixes wiktionary: and wikibooks: (in the project itself the last two are taken as namespace prefixes)

• a link of the first type (en:, de:, etc.) from a Wikipedia or Wiktionary is treated as a special interlanguage link, appearing at one or two edges of the webpage (in Monobook on the left, in Classic at the top and bottom); to make it inline, prefix a colon.

• as demonstrated above by the double prefixes, links may cumulate, thus enabling links that are not possible with a single prefix:
  • links from a Wiktionary to a Wikipedia other than the English one go through the English Wikipedia.
  • links from a Wikipedia to a Wiktionary other than the English one go through the English Wiktionary.
  • links from a Wikipedia to Wikisource go through Meta.

Examples

• To Wikipedia: '''[[w:]]''' (for example [[w:Main Page]] to link to Wikipedia Main Page. You can try it (w:Main Page).
• To Wiktionary: '''[[wiktionary:]]''' (for example [[wiktionary:Main Page]] to link to Wiktionary Main Page. You can try it (wiktionary:Main Page).

See also

• Interlanguage link
• Wikipedia:How to link to Wikimedia projects
• Wikipedia:Meta
• m:Help:Interwiki linking