Help talk:Interwikimedia links

Toolserver interwiki link

Is it possible to create an interwiki link to the toolserver? If so, what is the syntax?

Thanks, -Reuvenk_[T][C] 21:58, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

It appears that [[tools:]] works. See this list.  7  04:40, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Oldwikisource

Shouldn't the prefix "oldwikisource" be listed here? It appears to work, and no other way is listed to link to it. Example: oldwikisource:. – b_jonas 23:22, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

International links

How are the links called that connect the current article to its analog articles in other languages, and which can be seen on the lower left corner of the article? For example, in the article Soup, there is a link [[de:Suppe]] that links to the German article about the same topic. --Abdull 19:25, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Ah, Wikipedia:Interlanguage links. --Abdull 19:28, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

How many articles from non-English wiki are have equivalents on English wiki?

A question I asked at WP(A) - perhaps you know the answer? Please post there.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 21:24, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge with Wikipedia:Interlanguage links?

It seems to me that both pages are on a very similar topic, why not merge them?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 21:24, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I think that is a good idea. I'm setting up the merge templates. --Swift 17:46, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Ok as long as there are lots of redirects (I'm sure there will be; I created a bunch of redirects to Wikipedia:interlanguage links and I'm sure they'll get updated with the merge.) However, note that when I first saw words like "interwikimedia", I assumed they were talking about going between different formats or technologies, such as between Wikipedia and Wiktionary and other sister projects, rather than between languages. --Coppertwig 18:22, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Absolutely, they talk about the same thing. BTW: the main page on links is a piece of crap. It talks about lots of details but misses out completely on a concise overview on link syntax (it only explains the most common local inter article link syntax). Roeschter 00:52, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I do the merge. --Altermike 11:46, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Short form for Commons?

"c:" ??? seems a good idea to me. Where to ask? ++Lar: t/c 23:55, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

meta:? Not too sure that this is needed, though. This has definitely been brought up before. I'd suggest that you search Meta, Commons and the email lists. --Swift 06:52, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Can you be more specific as to where on meta??? And why was it turned down before if you recall offhand, it seems a really good idea, saving significant time. (just as w: does). ++Lar: t/c 17:19, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

I've not seen this discussed anywhere (note the questionmark), but Meta would be the appropriate place (the Meta "Community Portal" version is meta:Meta:Babel). My use of the word "definitely" was to represent my personal view of the certainty that this must have been brought up in previous discussion.

I don't think typing "ommons" takes all that much time. --Swift 19:53, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Just a guess, but perhaps "C:" = C: drive : ) - jc37 20:23, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

And I don't think typing "ikipedia" takes all that much time either, but we have "w:" after all. Perhaps I type "ommons" more than you do. I'd point out that I asked about where to ask about this, and did not ask to engage in a debate about whether it was a good idea or not, in the wrong place. Thanks for clarifying that "definitely" meant your supposition about matters rather than knowledge or memory. ++Lar: t/c 20:45, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

"we have "w:" after all." One feature does not necessitate others. This doesn't work on precedence. Furthermore, having "wikimedia:" instead of "w:" on links would take up quite a lot of space. Given the frequency that one might want to link to an encyclopaedic entry on a term without too much disruption to the text in which the link is in, the shorthand seems like a good idea.

"Perhaps I type "ommons" more than you do." Maybe you do. Great for you.

"[I] did not ask to engage in a debate about whether it was a good idea or not" Nor did anyone force you to engage in any form of debate. I voiced my oppinion and you, on your own free will, decided to reply by introducing your rationale for your idea into this discussion. If you dislike the discussion, a good start would be to refrain from engaging in it.

"your supposition about matters" Perhaps it would be more accurately labeled as educated assumptions. It has not been my experience that the WMF crew is fairly thorough in their decisions. It is, however, still possible that you are actually the first person to suggest this.

Good luck. Perhaps you will consider posting your findings for others that come after you in search of this same question? --Swift 01:32, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Wow, I forgot about this discussion. In the intervening time I've went from someone who wonders about this to someone who does a significant fraction of the maintenance on the map. :) (and discovered the truth about what Swift said about thoroughness :) ) Turns out there are technical reasons why setting up c: would cause problems. See this version of meta's Talk:Interwiki map... this probably will not be done. So there, I reported back with my findings. :) and only 14 months late :) ... ++Lar: t/c 11:26, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikispecies

Is there a short form for Wikispecies links? Cheers, -- Visviva 15:45, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Guidelines

Is there any guidelines for when to put interwiki links in the text? Can I use Template:WD to make inline links to wiktionary from any article, or should I only make inline links to other wikipedia articles? /¨81.229.40.5 22:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Can someone add Cookbook?

Can someone add cookbook to the list? {{cookbook}}

Should we link to other wiki?

A discussion is ongoing at WP:BOWN regarding links to questionable other-language foundation projects. Please comment there. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:27, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

How NOT to link to an Interwiki

I'm working on splitting off articles from the V (TV series) page, and have run into an interwiki problem: linking to Wikiversity when I want to link to en.Wiki iinstead. V:The Final Battle is the name of the second V miniseries, but V:The Final Battle goes to the Wikiversity site instead. V (The Final Battle) is an alternate way to avoid this, but it may still be a confusing situation. I'd like to make sure edioters don't try to use V:The Final Battle in linking to the page without there being some kinkd of redirect or DAB page available. Is there some alternative around this? Thanks. - BillCJ (talk) 02:55, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Same problem here: Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones should not link to Wikiquote, but to an album, whose title starts with "Q:".--Oneiros (talk) 18:39, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Explanation: Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restrictions)#Colons.--Oneiros (talk) 19:23, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Complaint

It took me fucking million years to find this page. The help could be easier to find, god damnit! --84.250.188.136 (talk) 04:08, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Interlanguage extension

There's a new MediaWiki extension that may make the maintenance of interlanguage links, often called "interwiki", much easier.

See here for the relevant discussions:

• on meta: meta:Talk:A newer look at the interlanguage link
• on the Wikitech-L mailing list: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-September/039472.html
• on Bugzilla: MediaZilla:15607

Your input is welcome. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:57, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Sister projects and UserPages

I cannot for the life of me make links on my user page to the other projects?
t:User:Mjquin_id, wikit:User:Mjquin_id and {{Wiktionary|User:Mjquin_id}} works, but as a Userbox...Anyone have ideas? -- Mjquin_id (talk) 05:03, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

[[wikt:User:Mjquin_id]] or [[wiktionary:User:Mjquin_id]] For the full list of interwikimedia links and their shortcuts and templates, see Wikipedia:InterWikimedia links –pjoef (talk • contribs) 17:33, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Wikia

Am I correct in assuming that wikias are external? If so, that is pretty daft, as all that is "uncyclopedic" is sent there, yet thery are external... --Squidonius (talk) 09:54, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes, Wikia-hosted wikis are considered external links. But I don't understand what you're saying.. could you rephrase? -- œ^™ 03:42, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, that answered my question. (What I meant was that I do not get is the dismissal as "external" of wikias despite the facts that Wikias belong to wikimedia and a lot of the information was stored on wikipedia before they were sent there. It would make more sense adding them to the interwiki lists, in my opinion, but the stuff on wikia are absolute crap so it does not matter.) On a side note, I posted a note in the village pump about a utterly speculative solution to better interlink the sister projects by having the choice outside of the article. --Squidonius (talk) 17:32, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Wrong, wrong, wrong! Wikia is not Wikipedia. Wikia is not a project of Wikimedia. In fact, Wikia should just be ignored totally, insofar as any serious attempt at writing an encyclopedia is concerned. AGK 01:25, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Template:Iw

FYI, {{Iw}} has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.210.155 (talk) 04:15, 21 May 2010 (UTC)