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The associated page is used by the Mediawiki software to add and remove interwiki link prefixes (such as [[w:blah]] to "blah" on Wikipedia). Any meta administrator can edit the interwiki map. Please post comments to the appropriate section (Proposed additions, Proposed removals, Requests for updates, Troubleshooting, or Other discussions); read the boxes at the top of each for an explanation. Completed requests are moved to the archives.

Proposed additions

The InterWiki Map exists to allow a more efficient syntax for linking between wikis, and thus promote the cooperation and proliferation of wikis and free content.

This section is for proposing a new interwiki link prefix. Interwiki prefixes should be reserved for websites that would be useful on a significant number of pages. Websites useful only to a few pages should be linked to with the usual external link syntax. Please don't propose additions of sites with too few pages or that contains copyright infringing content, such as YouTube. As a guide, sites considered for inclusion should probably

1. provide clear and relevant use to the Wikimedia projects
2. be trusted not to encourage spam links being added to the Wikimedia projects
3. be free content (under a Commons-acceptable license)
4. be a wiki
5. have reasonable amounts of content
6. does not contain malware

Add new entries at the bottom of the section. When requesting a new prefix, please explain why it would be useful keeping the above in mind. Admins, please allow consensus to form (or at least no objections to be raised over a period of a few days) before adding new entries, as once added they are hard to remove from the many copies around the world.

Requests for removal should be submitted on the talk page in the removals section and will be decided on by a Meta admin.

Encyc

The following discussion is closed: Added by Alison

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Encyc fulfills all six requirements above. It is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, similar to Wikipedia, and complements Wikipedia by having a slightly different style. Sole Flounder 22:18, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Done - Alison ^❤ 02:45, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Arborwiki

Arborwiki fulfills all six requirements above. It is a city wiki that anyone can edit, similar to Wikipedia, that focuses on information about the Ann Arbor, MI area. Edward Vielmetti, 12:57 AM, 16 Dec 2009 (EST)

Gardenology.org

Gardenology.org fulfills all six requirements as well. It's a free-content plant encyclopedia with 15,921 articles. Please add! --Wixi 02:17, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Proposed removals

This section is for proposing that a prefix be disabled; please add new entries at the bottom of the section. Remember to explain why it should be disabled, particularly in view of the difficulty involved in correcting any use of the prefix. Completed requests are marked with {{done}} or {{not done}} and moved to the archives.

lurkmore.ru

Interwiki links to this site are used to circumvent spam protection on ru-wiki (site is in local spam-blacklist). Site contains offensive and potentially libellous information about living persons. Spammers and vandals use interwiki links extensively to link to this site on Russian Wikipedia. Examples:

• [1]: link from word «скрипка» (violin) to article on LM about «быдло» («cattle», often used as pejorative in Russian).
• [2]: link from word «писатель» (author) to article on LM about «графоман» (see en:Graphomania, used as pejorative in Russian).
• [3]: vandalism, adding irrelevant links.
• [4]: spam.

Please remove this site from interwiki map ASAP due to extensive abuse by vandals and spammers. --Grebenkov 16:49, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Requests for updates

This section is for requesting update for an existing interwiki. This could be needed if your site's URL has changed. Please add new entries at the bottom of the section.

ChoralWiki

At present, ChoralWiki links are directed to http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/$1. As discussed here, the structure of ChoralWiki has recently changed, such that [5] is the 'Contributor's website', which requires registration for access, whereas the main user access (with anonymous access enabled) is via, for example, [6] - it would therefore seem better to direct the interwiki links to a 'Users' website' rather than a 'Contributors' website'. Thanks, Carminowe of Hendra 22:13, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Creatures Wiki

Could someone update CreaturesWiki to go to http://creatureswiki.net/wiki/$1? We're moving onto this new domain shortly - it will work as a redirect until then. GreenReaper 04:21, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Seems to be already done. --Barras 18:44, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

No, it isn't . . . the map still has creatures.wikia.com. GreenReaper 18:23, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Troubleshooting

This section is for comments related to problems or corrections with the interwiki map (such as incorrect syntax or entries not functioning). This is not the section to request that a prefix be disabled (see Proposed removals above).

Hi. All the following links correspond to localized families and are equally structured. If you use them in any non-localized project (like here in meta) or any non-English-localized one (like es:w), you arrive to targets of different type.

• en:wikisource:Main Page
• en:wikinews:Main Page
• en:wikipedia:Main Page
• en:wiktionary:Main Page
• en:wikiquote:Main Page
• en:wikibooks:Main Page
• en:wikiversity:Main Page

I think this is an abnormal functioning. Isn't it? You may try this in the es:w:Sandbox. Gustronico 07:39, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Hola Gustronico. Los interwikis de los propios proyectos no se añaden a la esta página, sino que están añadidos automáticamente a la base de datos; si hay algún problema con ellos deberías abrir un bug para que los administradores de la base de datos lo revisen. No obstante, algunos comentarios: para wikinews yo uso [[n:]] y para wikiversity [[v:]] Estos, puestos aquí te redirigen a los proyectos en inglés, si los pones en la zona de pruebas de eswiki te deberían redirigir a los respectivos proyectos en castellano. En efecto en la versión larga no lo hacen. Dejo esto abierto unos días para atraer más comentarios. Saludos, —Dferg ^(disputatio) 09:45, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Gracias Dferg. Efectivamente, los ejemplos que pones no funcionan como enlaces interproyecto dentro del mismo idioma, pero esa es una característica de todos los interwikis largos [7], y se debe justamente a que están definidos en esta misma página como enlaces a las versiones en inglés, y no en el software. La forma correcta de enlazar a otro proyecto en otro idioma es poner el código de localización idiomática después del interproyecto, usando preferiblemente la versión corta (n:es:Portada) aunque la larga también funciona (wikinews:es:Portada). El problema radica en que es muy común encontrar [8] el prefijo de idioma antes del interproyecto, y eso es lo que no funciona para es:wikinews: y es:wikiversity:, aunque sí para los demás proyectos. Bueno, al parecer se trata de un bug entonces. Gustronico 19:12, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Sí, creo que es cosa de abrir un bug dado que desde esta página no tenemos acceso a esos prefijos interwiki. Un saludo, — Dferg ^(disputatio) 16:52, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Other discussions

Generic Wikimedia prefix

With so many sites at wikimedia.org, I'm surprised that there is no generic "wikimedia" prefix, like the "wikia" one. Instead we have (not very useful imho) Wm2005, Wm2006, etc. (Just wanted to make an internal link to stats.wikimedia.org...) -AlexSm 15:12, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

See also

General requests for: help from a Meta sysop or bureaucrat · deletion (speedy deletions: local · multilingual) · URL blacklisting · new languages · interwiki map

Personal requests for: username changes · permissions (global) · bot status · adminship on Meta · CheckUser information (local) · local administrator help

Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation