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===Interwiki links=== | ===Interwiki links=== | ||
You can link to pages on [http://en.wiktionary.org Wiktionary], the [http://en.wiktionary.org English Wikipedia] and [http://meta.wikimedia.org Meta-Wiki] as if they were pages of our own wiki, using the prefixes '''<nowiki>[[ | You can link to pages on [http://en.wiktionary.org Wiktionary], the [http://en.wiktionary.org English Wikipedia] and [http://meta.wikimedia.org Meta-Wiki] as if they were pages of our own wiki, using the prefixes '''<nowiki>wiktionary:</nowiki>''', '''<nowiki>wikipedia:</nowiki>''' and '''<nowiki>metawikimedia:</nowiki>'''. When you make an interwiki link, the outbound link icon changes from an upward arrow to a sideward arrow to show that you are linking to a fellow wiki, not some random web site. | ||
An example of using an interwiki prefix would be '''<nowiki>[[wikipedia:Test]]</nowiki>''', which produces [[wikipedia:Test]] (you can supply alternate text using the syntax '''<nowiki>[[wikipedia:Test|Test]]</nowiki>''' to get rid of that pesky prefix in the final markup: [[wikipedia:Test|Test]]). These prefixes accept language codes, so you could use the markup '''<nowiki>[[wikipedia:de:Test|Test]]</nowiki>''' to link to the German article [[wikipedia:de:Test|Test]] (the URL will appear wrong, but Wikipedia knows what it means). | |||
All of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects have prefixes available for linking to them. Also note that we have handy shortcuts for the two most-used prefixes; '''wikipedia:''' can be shortened to '''wp:''' and '''wiktionary:''' can be shortened to '''wikt:'''. The complete list of currently supported interwiki links can be obtained by clicking [http://wiki.oni2.net/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap here]. | |||
Looking at the list, you'll see that some prefixes are not actually for other wikis, but general web shortcuts; '''google:''' produces a Google search query for the provided search term, and '''cache:''' produces a Google page cache query for the provided URL. | |||
==Images and categories== | ==Images and categories== | ||