Wikimedia Meta-Wiki

Templates for linking to sister projects

Content projects specialized by linguistic edition

Wikipedia
The free encyclopedia
Wiktionary
Free dictionary and thesaurus
Wikinews
Free-content news
Wikivoyage
Free travel guide
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations
Wikiversity
Free learning resources
Wikisource
Free-content library
Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals

Multilingual content projects

Wikimedia Commons
Free media repository
Wikidata
Free knowledge base
Wikispecies
Free directory of species
Wikimedia Incubator
For language versions in development
Wikifunctions
Free code repository

Outreach and administration projects

Wikimedia Foundation
Foundation public relations
Wikimedia Outreach
Wikimedia outreach wiki
Wikimania
The International Conference
Wikimedia Mailservices
Wikimedia mailing lists
Wikistats
Wikimedia statistics

Technical and development projects

MediaWiki
MediaWiki software documentation
Wikimedia Enterprise
APIs for high volume use
Wikitech
Wikimedia technical documentation
Phabricator
Issue tracker and planning tool for software projects
Test Wikipedia
For testing software changes
Wikimedia Cloud Services
Hosting environment for community managed software projects, tools, and data analysis

See also Wikimedia projects and the complete list of Wikimedia projects.

These templates are designed to provide article-to-article linking between Meta-Wiki and its Wikimedia sister projects.

This page is about coordination in the names and parameter uses in all of this kind of Wikimedia templates.

General considerations

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Par is used generally in the template name to point to a concrete page name in a sister project (i.e.wikiquotepar).

Wikipedia

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Links to pages on the Wikipedia site:

  • Box format: Template:Wikipedia (uses PAGENAME and generates a search rather than linking directly to a page; can use a parameter as in {{Wikipedia|SomePage}})
Template What it makes Where it goes
{{Wikipedia}}

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Wikipedia has more about this subject:
  • {{wikipedia}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} as default.


Wikiquote

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Links to pages to the Wikiquote site:

Template What it makes Where it goes
{{Wikiquote}}

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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
 Bottom of article (typically in External links).
{{Wikiquotepar}}

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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
 Bottom of article (typically in External links).

Wiktionary

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Links to pages on the Wiktionary site:

  • Box format
    • Template:Wiktionary (uses PAGENAME and generates a search rather than linking directly to a page — because Wiktionary article titles are fully case sensitive, this may not yield the desired result)
    • Template:Wiktionarypar (uses parameter as in {{Wiktionarypar|SomePage}})
  • To define a word in-line with other text, create an interwiki link in the format: [[wiktionary:SomeWord|definition of SomeWord]].
Template What it makes Where it goes
{{Wiktionary}}

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Wiktionary has relevant definitions:
  • {{wiktionary}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic search.
  • Does not link directly to pages.
{{Wiktionarypar}}

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Wiktionary has relevant definitions:
  • {{wiktionarypar|insert word here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses parameter for a manual link direct to specific articles.

Wikibooks

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Links to pages to the Wikibooks site:

Template What it makes Where it goes
{{Wikibooks}}

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Wikibooks has more about this subject:
  • {{wikibooks}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic link.
{{Wikibookspar}}

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Wikibooks has more about this subject:

{{Wikibookspar||Astronomy}}
(note missing first parameter, for a book not part of a specific collection)

 
Wikibooks has more about this subject:

{{Wikibookspar|Cookbook|Soups}}

 
Wikibooks has more about this subject:

{{Wikibookspar|Wikiversity|School of Education}}

  • First parameter is the Section, second is the title. See examples.
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses parameter for a manual link.

Wikisource

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Links to pages to the Wikisource site:

Template What it makes Usage
{{Wikisource}}

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There is source content on Wikisource:
[[s:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]
  • {{Wikisource}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic link.
{{Wikisourcepar}}

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There is source content on Wikisource:
  • {{Wikisourcepar|Insert title here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Supply the name of the Wikisource article for manual link.

Wikimedia Commons

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Template What it makes Usage
{{Move to Wikimedia Commons}}

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Top of article.
{{NowCommons}}

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Commons
 This picture/multimedia file is now available on Wikimedia Commons as Image:ImageName.jpg.
  • {{NowCommons|Image:ImageName.jpg}}
  • Placed at bottom of image description
  • Allows identification of moved files
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic categorizing ([[Category:NowCommons|Pagename]]).
{{Commons}}

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
  • {{Commons|insert media page title here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses parameter {{PAGENAME}} for linking to the same name Commons page.
{{Commonspar}}

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
  • {{Commonspar|Page name here}}
  • Placed at bottom of image description
  • Supply the name of the Commons page for manual link.
{{Commonscat}}

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Wikimedia Commons has more media related to:
  • {{Commonscat|Insert category name here}}
  • Bottom of article (typically in External links).

Wikinews

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Links to pages on the Wikinews site:

  • Box format: Template:Wikinews (can use a parameter as in {{Wikinews|SomePageTitle}})
  • To link in-line with other text, create an interwiki link in the format: [[Wikinews:SomeArticleTitle|reference to the Wikinews article]].
Template What it makes Where it goes
{{Wikinews}}

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Wikinews has news related to this article:
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)

All Wikimedia Sister projects only in box

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Links to pages on all Wikimedia Sister projects using a single box:

Template What it makes Where it goes
{{Sisterlinks}}

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Find more information on Page name here by searching one of Wikipedia's sibling projects:

  • {{Sisterlinks|Page name here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Needs manual parameter

Metapages in Wikimedia Sister projects

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Links to pages on all Wikimedia Sister projects metapages using a single box:

Template What it makes Where it goes
{{Wikimediameta}}

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 Look up Templates for linking to sister projects in the metapage of Wiktionary. Look up Templates for linking to sister projects in the metapage of Wikinews. Look up Templates for linking to sister projects in the metapage of Wikiquote. Look up Templates for linking to sister projects in the metapage of Wikibooks. Look up Templates for linking to sister projects in the metapage of Wikisource. Look up Templates for linking to sister projects in the metapage of Commons. Look up Templates for linking to sister projects in the metapage of Wikispecies.
  • {{WMF-navigation}}.
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in Internal or External links).
  • Cannot use parameters for a manual link, because the links are automatic.
  • Coordinated and coherent (used in all the wikimedia sisterprojects and in the same way).

See also

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