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

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

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

Wikipedia

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}} Edit Talk Links		{{wikipedia}} Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links) Uses {{PAGENAME}} as default.

Wikiquote

Links to pages to the Wikiquote site:

• Template:Wikiquote (uses PAGENAME)
• Template:Wikiquotepar (uses parameter as in {{Template:Wikiquotepar|SomePage}})

Template	What it makes	Where it goes
{{Wikiquote}} Edit Talk Links		Bottom of article (typically in External links).
{{Wikiquotepar}} Edit Talk Links		Bottom of article (typically in External links).

Wiktionary

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}} Edit Talk Links		{{wiktionary}} Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links) Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic search. Does not link directly to pages.
{{Wiktionarypar}} Edit Talk Links		{{wiktionarypar|insert word here}} Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links) Uses parameter for a manual link direct to specific articles.

Wikibooks

Links to pages to the Wikibooks site:

• Template:Wikibooks
• Template:Wikibookspar (requires parameter as in {{Wikibookspar|SomePage}})
• Template:Book — For a subject with a single book. (i.e. Algebra)

Template	What it makes	Where it goes
{{Wikibooks}} Edit Talk Links		{{wikibooks}} Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links) Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic link.
{{Wikibookspar}} Edit Talk Links	{{Wikibookspar||Astronomy}} (note missing first parameter, for a book not part of a specific collection) {{Wikibookspar|Cookbook|Soups}} {{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

Links to pages to the Wikisource site:

• Template:Wikisource (uses PAGENAME)
• Template:Wikisourcepar (requires parameter as in {{wikisourcepar|SomePage}})

Template	What it makes	Usage
{{Wikisource}} Edit Talk Links		{{Wikisource}} Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links) Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic link.
{{Wikisourcepar}} Edit Talk Links		{{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

Template	What it makes	Usage
{{Move to Wikimedia Commons}} Edit Talk Links		Top of article.
{{NowCommons}} Edit Talk Links	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}} Edit Talk Links		{{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}} Edit Talk Links		{{Commonspar|Page name here}} Placed at bottom of image description Supply the name of the Commons page for manual link.
{{Commonscat}} Edit Talk Links		{{Commonscat|Insert category name here}} Bottom of article (typically in External links).

Wikinews

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}} Edit Talk Links		Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)

All Wikimedia Sister projects only in box

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

Template	What it makes	Where it goes
{{Sisterlinks}} Edit Talk Links		{{Sisterlinks|Page name here}} Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links) Needs manual parameter

Metapages in Wikimedia Sister projects

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

• Box format
  • Template:Wikimediameta

Template	What it makes	Where it goes
{{Wikimediameta}} Edit Talk Links	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

• Category:Interwiki link templates.