Wikieducator tutorial/New Pages and Links/Interwiki links

Interwiki links are external links that behave like internal links. Essentially, they are shortcuts to other mediawiki projects. For example the link to the wikipedia main page could be written using the external link notation

wikipedia

which results in this link to wikipedia or using the interwiki link notation

wikipedia

which results in this link to wikipedia. The interwiki link method is shorter and more convenient once you are familiar with the notation.

The following table gives examples of the interwiki prefixes that are available on WikiEducator: