Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects


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 * To link sister projects using traditional inline text links see Interwikimedia links.

This page lists templates that are designed to provide article-to-article linking between Wikipedia and its Wikimedia sister projects. It also provides links to pages concerning moving articles between projects.

Guidelines
Wikipedia encourages links to sister projects and interlanguage links when possible. However, links to sister projects should not be inserted excessively.

Convention is to include each reference, link, or definition only once within an article, at the first appropriate point. Links to "Wikimedia sister projects" are best placed in the section of the article to which they relate, including Lead section, if possible; otherwise, they are usually placed in either "See also" section or External links section (though InterWikimedia links cannot be External links).

For example, a link to Wikiquote might be placed before any discussion of quotations, and a link to Wikinews before the description of the event, so that those articles are obviously sourced in the composition.

In some cases, such as disambiguation articles, they are best placed in the article's introduction (Lead section).

See below for a complete rundown.

If the name of the "Wikimedia sister project" (the article which you recommend to readers) is "Wikisource":
 * - This copy of primary source in Wikipedia article should be copied to "Wikisource". Even after copying, please don't remove the important and/or necessary copy of the primary source from the Wikipedia article for the sake of other readers and editors.
 * - An article in "Wikisource" with the same title is about the same topic.
 * - Pagename in "Wikisource" is about the same topic.
 * ). Pagename1 and Pagename2 in "Wikisource" are about the same topic.
 * It is the same when there are more than two related articles in "Wikisource".

Sister Projects template
WikipediaSister shows the selection of sister projects. The result:

Wikiquote
Pages nominated for copying to Wikiquote:
 * Template:Copy to Wikiquote

Links to pages to the Wikiquote site:
 * Template:Wikiquote

Wiktionary
Pages nominated for copying to Wiktionary:
 * Template:Copy to 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 &mdash; because Wiktionary article titles are fully case sensitive, this may not yield the desired result)
 * Template:Wiktionarypar (uses parameter as in )
 * Template:Wiktionarypar2 (uses 2 parameters as in )
 * Now redirected to, supporting up to five pages.
 * Template:Wi (uses PAGENAME), used for dictionary definitions
 * Template:Widirect (uses parameter as in ), used as Wi but for where the Wiktionary page name is known.
 * Template:Wiktionaryleft (identical to Template:Wiktionarypar, but on the LHS of the page)
 * To define a word in-line with other text, create an interwiki link in the format: definition of SomeWord.

Wikibooks
Pages nominated for copying to Wikibooks:
 * Template:Copy to Wikibooks

Links to pages to the Wikibooks site:
 * Template:Wikibooks
 * Template:Wikibookspar (requires two or more parameters as in )
 * Template:Cookbook

Wikisource
Pages nominated for copying to Wikisource:
 * Template:Copy to Wikisource
 * Template:Wikisource-addition

Links to pages to the Wikisource site:
 * Template:Wikisource
 * Template:Wikisourcecat (points to Category:)
 * Template:Wikisourcelang (requires three parameters as in )
 * Template:Wikisource author (points to Author:)
 * Template:Wikisource1911Enc (requires parameter as in )
 * Template:Wikisource1913CatholicEnc (requires parameter as in )
 * Template:WikisourceEBD1897 (requires parameter as in )
 * Template:Wikisource1914NSRW (requires parameter as in )

Wikinews
Moving pages to Wikinews is not possible, for legal reasons. (Copying material to Wikinews would put it under the CC-BY license, which violates the GFDL.) However Wikinews articles can be moved to wikipedia.

Links to pages on the Wikinews site:
 * Box format
 * Template:Wikinews (uses a parameter as in )
 * Template:Wikinewscat (uses parameter as in )
 * Template:Wikinewspar2 (uses 2 parameter as in )
 * To link in-line with other text, create an interwiki link in the format: reference to the Wikinews article.

Wikiversity
Links to pages on the Wikiversity site:

Wikispecies
Links to pages on the Wikispecies site:

Mediawiki
Links to pages on the MediaWiki site:
 * Box format
 * Template:Media (uses parameter as in )

Meta-Wiki
Links to pages on the Meta site:
 * Box format
 * Template:Meta (uses parameter as in )

Several/All Wikimedia Sister projects in box
Links to pages on several/all Wikimedia Sister projects using a single box:
 * Box format
 * Template:Wikimedia

Metapages in Wikimedia Sister projects
Links to pages on all Wikimedia Sister projects metapages using a single box:
 * Box format
 * Template:Wikimediameta