Help:Interwikimedia links

For linking from one Wikipedia project to another (e.g. the English Wikipedia to the German Wikipedia), see Help:Interlanguage links.

For a list of Wikimedia projects, see Wikimedia project and meta:Complete list of Wikimedia projects.

Shortcut: H:IW

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

Shortcuts and templates to Wikimedia sister projects

Project	Long form	Shortcut	Pagename template
Wikipedia	`[[wikipedia:]]`	`[[w:]]`
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}}`
Wikisource (common repository)	`[[oldwikisource:]]`		`{{WikisourceWiki\|Pagename}}`
Wikispecies	`[[species:]]` `[[wikispecies:]]`		`{{Wikispecies\|Pagename}}`
Wikiversity	`[[wikiversity:]]`	`[[v:]]`	`{{Wikiversity\|Pagename}}`
Wikiversity Beta	`[[betawikiversity:]]`
Wikivoyage	`[[wikivoyage:]]`	`[[voy:]]`	`{{Wikivoyage\|Pagename}}`
Wikipedia in another language *	`[[language code:wikipedia:]]`	`[[language code:]]`, `[[language code:w:]]`
Wikimedia Foundation	`[[wikimedia:]]` `[[foundation:]]`	`[[wmf:]]`
Wikimedia Commons	`[[commons:]]`	`[[c:]]`	`{{Commons\|Pagename}}`
Wikimedia Meta-Wiki	`[[meta:]]` `[[metawikipedia:]]`	`[[m:]]`	`{{Meta\|Pagename}}`
Strategic planning	`[[strategy:]]`
Wikimedia Incubator	`[[incubator:]]`		`{{Incubator\|Pagename}}`
MediaWiki	`[[mediawikiwiki:]]`	`[[mw:]]`	`{{MediaWiki\|Pagename}}`
MediaWiki Quality	`[[quality:]]`
MediaWiki OTRS ticket with TicketID ticket with TicketNumber	`[[otrswiki:]]` `[[otrs:000000]]` `[[ticket:0000000000000000]]`
Phabricator (formerly Bugzilla and MediaZilla)	`[[phabricator:]]` `[[bugzilla:]]` `[[mediazilla:]]`	`[[phab:]]`
Nostalgia	`[[nost:]]`
Test Wikipedia	`[[testwiki:]]`
Wikidata	`[[wikidata:]]`	`[[d:]]`	`{{Wikidata property\|propery id\|topic}}`
Outreach Wiki	`[[outreach:]]` `[[outreachwiki:]]`
Tool Labs	`[[toollabs:]]`

International chapters of Wikimedia	Shortcut
Argentina	`[[wmar:]]`
Australia	`[[wmau:]]`
Belgium	`[[wmbe:]]`
Canada	`[[wmca:]]`
Switzerland	`[[wmch:]]`
Czech Republic	`[[wmcz:]]`
Germany	`[[wmde:]]`
Finland	`[[wmfi:]]`
Hong Kong	`[[wmhk:]]`
Hungary	`[[wmhu:]]`
India	`[[wmin:]]`
Indonesia	`[[wmid:]]`
Israel	`[[wmil:]]`
Italy	`[[wmit:]]`
Macedonia	`[[wmmk:]]`
Netherlands	`[[wmnl:]]`
Norway	`[[wmno:]]`
Poland	`[[wmpl:]]`
Russia	`[[wmru:]]`
Serbia	`[[wmrs:]]`
Sweden	`[[wmse:]]`
Turkish	`[[wmtr:]]`
Taiwan	`[[wmtw:]]`
United Kingdom	`[[wmuk:]]`

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]] or [[:de:s:Salz]] will link to the German-language Wikisource, [[:wikt:fr:sel]] or [[:fr:wikt: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. Note that this only works for the first prefix, so saving [[s:en:test|]], will automatically expand to [[s:en:test|en:test]], not [[s:en:test|test]].

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 default to being unencrypted; if the current (referring) page is being browsed via an HTTPS connection, all interproject and wikilinks on that page will be rewritten to https://.

Previously, to create interproject links that would use the respective Wikipedia:Secure server the {{sec link auto}} template was needed. However, as interwiki links now generate protocol-independent links, wrapping with this template is now no longer required.

Examples

Wikitext	Results
`[[:en:Main Page]] [[:de:Hauptseite]]`	en:Main Page de:Hauptseite
`[[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

Links crossing languages and projects

As demonstrated above, by the double prefixes (for example [[wikt:de:Main Page]]), prefixes can be combined, thus enabling links that are not possible with a single prefix. For example; one can link a word in the English Wikipedia to a term in the German Wiktionary. The order of the prefixes does not matter. [[:de:wikt:Main Page]] will also work. Remember to put a colon in front of a link starting with a language prefix.

Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects, guideline for using Wikipedia's sister projects
Wikipedia:Template messages/Sister projects, templates for linking between the various Wikimedia sister projects
Help:Interlanguage links, describes how to link between differing foreign language Wikipedias
Help:Contents/Links, table of contents for help pages about links and references
Help:Interwiki linking, more help to link to other projects
mw:Help:Interwiki linking, help page from MediaWiki
Meta-Wiki content:
- m:Help:Interwiki linking
- m:Interwiki map, list of WMF and non-WMF mappings
commons:Commons:First steps/Reuse, instructions on linking a file from Commons to Wikipedia

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