Help:Interwiki linking
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Interwiki links are links to pages of other projects, using a prefixed internal link style.
Interwiki links make it possible, to link to pages of (e.g.) Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews etc. or to your wiki-project in different languages (see Help:Wiki family).
A link like [[Wikipedia:Main Page]] will appear like this: Wikipedia:Main Page and redirect you to Wikipedia's Main Page.
For setting up interwiki links, you might need to edit the Database.
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Interwiki links to other projects
Default
Several Wikimedia-Projects (and others) are ready for interwiki linking by default, so you can use them without editing your database:
| Template:Hl3 align="center"|prefix | Template:Hl3 align="center"|direction | Template:Hl3 align="center"|usage example |
| commons | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ | [[commons:MediaWiki]]
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| mediazilla | http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/ | [[mediazilla:1209]]
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| meta | http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ | [[meta:Main Page]]
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| mw | http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ | [[mw:Help:Contents]]
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| wikibooks | http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ | [[wikibooks:Main Page]]
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| wikimedia | http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/ | [[wikimedia:Main Page]]
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| wikinews | http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/ | [[wikinews:Main Page]]
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| wikiquote | http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/ | [[wikiquote:Main Page]]
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| wikisource | http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/ | [[wikisource:Main Page]]
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| wikispecies | http://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/ | [[wikispecies:Main Page]]
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| wiktionary | http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ | [[wiktionary:Main Page]]
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Adding more
As the Wikipedia isn't set up by default, you might want to add it (and other projects of your need).
You have to edit your database.
Go to table interwiki and add a new line:
iw_prefix: choose a prefix, which is used for interwiki linking, e.g. "Wikipedia" or "wp" for linking to Wikipediaiw_url: enter the project's URL, e.g.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1for Wikipedia. Don't forget the$1as it is replaced with the article's name you are linking to ([[Wikipedia:Main Page]]links tohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page).iw_local: (don't know what this is for)iw_trans: (don't know what this is for)
Interwiki links to other languages
If you have installed a Wiki family, you can link from an article in english to an article in german (if you have a german project, too). You can set up MediaWiki, to show those links in the sidebar, just below the toolbox.
In your filesystem, there is a subfolder of your MediaWiki installation, called "languages". Go there and have a look at "Names.php" as it contains a list of known languages and their prefixes. E.g. you want to add your german project, search "Names.php" for "Deutsch" and note the prefix "de".
If you know the "right" prefix, edit your database by adding a new line to table interwiki:
iw_prefix: language-prefix (e.g. "de" for german), which is listed in "Names.php"iw_url: URL to your wiki-project (e.g.http://de.your-wiki.org/index.php/$1)iw_local: (don't know what this is for)iw_trans: (don't know what this is for)
Now, you can link an article to the same in other languages. Adding [[de:Hauptseite]] on your english Main_Page will create a link "Deutsch" below the toolbox, which leads to the Main_Page of the german wiki (Hauptseite).
Note, that this link is shown in Sidebar's section, only, and not inside of the article. If you want to create a link inside of the text, you have to add a colon previous to the prefix: [[:de:Hauptseite]].
