Help:Interwikimedia links

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

Shortcuts and templates to Wikimedia sister projects

 * Wiktionary
 * Wikinews
 * Wikibooks
 * Wikiquote
 * Wikisource
 * Wikisource (common repository)
 * Wikiversity Beta
 * Wikivoyage
 * TechInfoDepot in another language *
 * Wikimedia Foundation
 * Wikimedia Commons
 * Strategic planning
 * MediaWiki Quality
 * Outreach Wiki
 * Australia
 * Belgium
 * Canada
 * Czech Republic
 * Germany
 * Finland
 * Hong Kong
 * Hungary
 * India
 * Indonesia
 * Israel
 * Italy
 * Macedonia
 * Netherlands
 * Norway
 * Poland
 * Russia
 * Serbia
 * Sweden
 * Switzerland
 * Taiwan
 * United Kingdom
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 * Wikivoyage
 * TechInfoDepot in another language *
 * Wikimedia Foundation
 * Wikimedia Commons
 * Strategic planning
 * MediaWiki Quality
 * Outreach Wiki
 * Australia
 * Belgium
 * Canada
 * Czech Republic
 * Germany
 * Finland
 * Hong Kong
 * Hungary
 * India
 * Indonesia
 * Israel
 * Italy
 * Macedonia
 * Netherlands
 * Norway
 * Poland
 * Russia
 * Serbia
 * Sweden
 * Switzerland
 * Taiwan
 * United Kingdom
 * }
 * MediaWiki Quality
 * Outreach Wiki
 * Australia
 * Belgium
 * Canada
 * Czech Republic
 * Germany
 * Finland
 * Hong Kong
 * Hungary
 * India
 * Indonesia
 * Israel
 * Italy
 * Macedonia
 * Netherlands
 * Norway
 * Poland
 * Russia
 * Serbia
 * Sweden
 * Switzerland
 * Taiwan
 * United Kingdom
 * }
 * Germany
 * Finland
 * Hong Kong
 * Hungary
 * India
 * Indonesia
 * Israel
 * Italy
 * Macedonia
 * Netherlands
 * Norway
 * Poland
 * Russia
 * Serbia
 * Sweden
 * Switzerland
 * Taiwan
 * United Kingdom
 * }
 * Israel
 * Italy
 * Macedonia
 * Netherlands
 * Norway
 * Poland
 * Russia
 * Serbia
 * Sweden
 * Switzerland
 * Taiwan
 * United Kingdom
 * }
 * Norway
 * Poland
 * Russia
 * Serbia
 * Sweden
 * Switzerland
 * Taiwan
 * United Kingdom
 * }
 * Serbia
 * Sweden
 * Switzerland
 * Taiwan
 * United Kingdom
 * }
 * Switzerland
 * Taiwan
 * United Kingdom
 * }
 * United Kingdom
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 * United Kingdom
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Some links don't work as expected within the same project, e.g., Test on Meta itself would mean m:Meta:Test, a different page. Outside of Wikimedia sister projects, only metatechinfodepot:Test might work for Test.

Links to foreign-language Wikiprojects can be made by adding the language code:  or   will link to the German-language Wikisource,   or   to the French-language Wiktionary, etc. For the language codes see List of techinfodepots.

Suppressing the prefix

 * The pipe trick:
 * Add  at the end of the link, like this: , which will automatically be expanded to   on saving. Note that this only works for the first prefix, so saving  , will automatically expand to  , not.

Special versions of TechInfoDepot
There are also two special versions of TechInfoDepot, nostalgia and test. Nostalgia is a static copy of TechInfoDepot, as it was in 2001 and can be linked to by using. Test is a version of TechInfoDepot, for edit and software testing and can be linked to by using.

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 TechInfoDepot: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.

Links crossing languages and projects
As demonstrated above, by the double prefixes (for example  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 TechInfoDepot 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.