Help:Interwiki linking
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For linking to an article on a different-language Wikipedia within an article, see Help:Interlanguage links. For a list of Wikipedias in other languages with their language codes, see List of Wikipedias § Details table. For a list of Wikimedia projects, see Wikimedia Foundation § Wikimedia projects, m:Complete list of Wikimedia projects, and Special:SiteMatrix. For style recommendations, see MOS:INTERWIKI.
Interwiki linking can be a link to another project, to another language and both, to another project in another language.
- Interproject links: By adding a prefix to another Wikimedia project, internal link style ("prefixed internal link style") can be used to link to a page of another project. A system of short-handed link labels is used to refer to different projects, in the context of interproject linking, as seen within the actual source text.
- For example, to link from here to the "surfeit" article on Wiktionary, you have to include the interwiki link
[[wikt:surfeit]]
which would appear as wikt:surfeit or the interwiki link[[wikt:surfeit|surfeit]]
which would appear as surfeit.
- Interlanguage links: These are interwiki links linking different language editions of the same project. Wikimedia Projects with different language editions are:
- Wikipedia
- Wiktionary
- Wikisource
- Wikiquote
- Wikibooks
- Wikiversity
- Wikivoyage
- Wikinews
[[fr:Pomme]]
: This produces a link to the French Wikipedia article Pomme in the "Languages" menu of the page. Note: Since 2013 this type of interlanguage link is usually centralized through Wikidata, which you can edit either by opening the Wikidata item, or selecting "Add language".[[:fr:Pomme]]
: This produces an inline interlanguage link fr:Pomme in the English Wikipedia article.
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This is called interwiki. For each project, an interwiki map (a list of target projects with their prefixes) is specified (Special:Interwiki). These target projects do not require MediaWiki and do not even have to be a wiki.