Interwiki links
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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
[http://en.wikipedia.org/Main_Page wikipedia]
which results in this link to wikipedia or using the interwiki link notation
[[w:Main Page|wikipedia]]
which results in this link to wikipedia. The interwiki link method is shorter and more convenient once you are familiar with the notation.
Add a prefix to the internal link notation to create an interwiki link. The prefix for wikipedia is wikipedia or w as shown below:
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The following table gives examples of the interwiki prefixes that are available on WikiEducator:
prefix | destination URL | usage example | interwiki link example |
commons | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ | [[commons:MediaWiki]]
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commons:MediaWiki |
mediazilla | http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ | [[mediazilla:1209]] | mediazilla:1209
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wikibooks | http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ | [[wikibooks:Main Page]] | wikibooks:Main Page
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wikimedia | http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/ | [[wikimedia:Main Page]] | wikimedia:Main Page
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wikinews | http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/ | [[wikinews:Main Page]] | wikinews:Main Page
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wikiquote | http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/ | [[wikiquote:Main Page]] | wikiquote:Main Page
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wikisource | http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ | [[wikisource:Main Page]] | wikisource:Main Page
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wikispecies | http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/ | [[wikispecies:Main Page]] | wikispecies:Main Page
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wiktionary | http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ | [[wiktionary:Main Page]] or [[wikt:Main Page]] | wiktionary:Main Page or wikt:Main Page
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wikipedia | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ | [[wikipedia:Main Page]] or [[w:Main Page]] | wikipedia:Main Page or w:Main Page
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Have a go at entering interwiki links on your user page sandbox.
Step 2: Use the syntax descriptions above to add interwiki links to your favourite mediawiki project into your sandbox.
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