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Festipedia

Can a mediawiki.org admin make a "festipedia:" interwiki prefix that looks like this:

Web address: http://www.frheritage.org.uk/wiki/

Long form: festipedia:

shortcuts: fest:, fr:

It will be appreciated. --Dagoth Ur, Mad God 02:52, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiHow.org names

Why does WikiHow.org use dashes instead of underscores in a page URL? Also, why does WikiHow use only part of the page name in the URL?

Here is a link to a Wikihow page:

How to Use the MediaWiki ImageMap Extension

Here is the wikicode used for the above link.

[[wikihow:Use-the-MediaWiki-ImageMap-Extension|How to Use the MediaWiki ImageMap Extension]]

One can't link by adding double brackets around the page name. The link does not work. Try it and see. --Timeshifter 14:31, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

I see that WikiHow.org redirects to WikiHow.com

http://www.wikihow.org

It is not affiliated with Wikimedia. --Timeshifter 04:38, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

How to link to the multilingual Wikisource?

I want to link to a page in the multilingual Wikisource (www.wikisource.org), but the :s: trick is not working because it automatically appends the language from the origin wiki. So, if I'm in the English Wikipedia and write :s:Main Page, it directs to the en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page instead of to the desired www.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page. Also tried with :wikisource: and had no success either. Is there a way to do it? Capmo 11:57, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I found it: we have to append :oldwikisource: to the page name. What an ugly patch. Capmo 12:28, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Nofollow and interwiki linking

Could someone who knows please establish the facts surrounding the "dofollow" or "nofollow" status of Interwiki links that point to Wikia.com? I am particularly trying to address the concerns that would have been address in this and this bug report. If links to Wikia are afforded the "dofollow" bonus, then I will be submitting a request to add MyWikiBiz to the Interwiki list. -- Thekohser 18:10, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Interwiki-styled links, including those to Wikia, do not have the "nofollow" attribute applied to them. However, external links to Wikia do. Most links to Wikia appear to be of the latter variety, including all of the ones on the Wikipedia article about them. The use of external rather than interwiki links for the Wikia template there was recently endorsed; I suspect users would feel the same for MyWikiBiz as both are for-profit sites that show adverts. Congratulations on reaching 50,000 articles, by the way. GreenReaper 01:31, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. We at MyWikiBiz are very proud of our various milestones over the past year, including a half-million page loads, assessment as a 5/10 Google PageRank site, and the 50,000th article that you mentioned. I'm really not as interested in including MyWikiBiz on the interwiki list; my concern is primarily to stamp out the hypocrisy that surrounds this fabricated notion that Wikia is a "completely separate" entity from the Wikimedia projects. It's not. It's a self-dealing recipient of Wikimedia-community-generated content, Wikimedia Foundation funding, and staffing/governance overlaps. Always has been. I wish it weren't. -- Thekohser 15:19, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Interwiki links formatted like "normal" links

Hello ! Is there any possibility that interwiki links would look like external links ? I mean i have declared that prefix w: directs us to pl.wikipedia.org. But it looks like internal links inside my wiki.

I dont want they to looks like Antoniego Kaliny:

[[w:Antoni Kalina|Antoniego Kaliny]]

but I want it to looks like Antoniego Kaliny using the same code:

[[w:Antoni Kalina|Antoniego Kaliny]]

I want my user to know that it is link to "other" wiki but I want to have opportunity tu use simple links coding. I am not sure if I am clear. In short I want to use interwiki links functionality but I want them to looks like normal external links... But mabye there is a way to add any simple icon that will mark every interwiki link to make them different than internal ?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.168.82.227 (talk • contribs) 15:58, 17 October 2010 .

Ehm, interwiki links are different from internal wikilinks. The blue is lighter. Yes, you can add icons by editing the css (for instance); don't ask me precisely how. --Nemo 18:06, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks it was helpfull

List of site Interwiki entries (feature request)

Could we have a Mediawiki wiki markup keyword that displayed the list of Interwiki mappings on the current site ?

This would allow non-admins to find and use what was available, and perhaps to request additional mappings where needed. It might also help to raise the profile of the feature on a given site and let everyone benefit from the extra convenience. 212.209.45.98 10:28, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Interwiki links on original wiki

meta:Interwiki linking does not work on this wiki, only on other wikis. I'm trying to unify my user pages on the different wikis, but this is a slight barrier. SharkD 01:43, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Section linking bug

I just tried to link from English Wiktionary to German Wikipedia, but linking to a specific section wouldn't work. Any idea what's up with that?

It doesn't work here, either, check for yourself: w:de:Kunst#Literatur --Florian Blaschke 20:20, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Works for me, as always. Maybe a bug in your browser? Do other anchors work? For instance, #top or Help:Interwiki linking#footer. Nemo 17:25, 18 November 2011 (UTC)