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.

Contents 1 Interwiki links to other projects 1.1 Default 1.2 Adding more 2 Interwiki links to other languages

[edit] Interwiki links to other projects

[edit] Default

Several Wikimedia-Projects (and others) are ready for interwiki linking by default, so you can use them without editing your database:

prefix	direction	usage example
commons	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/	[[commons:MediaWiki]]
mediazilla	http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/	[[mediazilla:1209]]
meta	http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/	[[meta:Main Page]]
mw	http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/	[[mw:Help:Contents]]
wikibooks	http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/	[[wikibooks:Main Page]]
wikimedia	http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/	[[wikimedia:Main Page]]
wikinews	http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/	[[wikinews:Main Page]]
wikiquote	http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/	[[wikiquote:Main Page]]
wikisource	http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/	[[wikisource:Main Page]]
wikispecies	http://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/	[[wikispecies:Main Page]]
wiktionary	http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/	[[wiktionary:Main Page]]

[edit] 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 Wikipedia
• iw_url: enter the project's URL, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1 for Wikipedia. Don't forget the $1 as it is replaced with the article's name you are linking to ([[Wikipedia:Main Page]] links to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page).
• iw_local: (don't know what this is for)
• iw_trans: (don't know what this is for)

[edit] 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: Indicates to the wiki is local to the source or not.
• iw_trans: Allows for transcoding data from the wiki or preventing it - $wgScaryTranscluding = true; needs to be set in the LocalSettings.php for this to have any affect.

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]].