Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 30

Interwiki links and shortcuts

You can make links that lead to Wikipedia's sister projects, and a few other places, without the arrow that accompanies external links. Here's how:

Prefix	Example	Shortcut
[[wikibooks:]]	wikibooks:	[[b:]] b:
[[meta:]]	meta:	[[m:]] m:
[[mediawikiwiki:]]	mediawikiwiki:	[[mw:]] mw:
[[wikinews:]]	wikinews:	[[n:]] n:
[[wikiquote:]]	wikiquote:	[[q:]] q:
[[wikisource:]]	wikisource:	[[s:]] s:
[[wikipedia:]]	[[wikipedia:]]	[[w:]] w:
[[wiktionary:]]	wiktionary:	[[wikt:]] wikt:
[[commons:]]	commons:	[[c:]] c:
[[wikidata:]]	wikidata:	[[d:]] d:
[[wikispecies:]]	wikispecies:	[[species:]] species:
[[google:]]	google:	used for google queries
[[mediazilla:]]	mediazilla:	used with bug numbers

The long form doesn't work within the same project. The shortcut works everywhere.

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