Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 30, 2006

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:
http://www.mediawiki.org/		[[mw:]] mw:
[[wikinews:]]	wikinews:	[[n:]] n:
[[wikiquote:]]	wikiquote:	[[q:]] q:
[[wikisource:]]	wikisource:	[[s:]] s:
[[wikipedia:]]	[[wikipedia:]]	[[w:]] w:
[[wiktionary:]]	wiktionary:	[[wikt:]] wikt:
[[commons:]]	commons:
[[google:]]	google:	used for google queries
[[mediazilla:]]	mediazilla:	used with bug numbers
[[sep11:]]	sep11:
[[wikispecies:]]	wikispecies:

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

Read more: Help:Interwiki linking

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