Templates for linking to sister projects

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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[edit]

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

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


Links to pages to the Wikiquote site:

Template What it makes Where it goes
{{Wikiquote}}

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Bottom of article (typically in External links).
{{Wikiquotepar}}

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Bottom of article (typically in External links).

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]].
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{{Wiktionary}}

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  • {{wiktionary}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic search.
  • Does not link directly to pages.
{{Wiktionarypar}}

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  • {{wiktionarypar|insert word here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses parameter for a manual link direct to specific articles.

Links to pages to the Wikibooks site:

Template What it makes Where it goes
{{Wikibooks}}

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  • {{wikibooks}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic link.
{{Wikibookspar}}

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{{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.

Links to pages to the Wikisource site:

Template What it makes Usage
{{Wikisource}}

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  • {{Wikisource}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic link.
{{Wikisourcepar}}

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  • {{Wikisourcepar|Insert title here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Supply the name of the Wikisource article for manual link.
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{{Move to Wikimedia Commons}}

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Top of article.
{{NowCommons}}

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Commons
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]]).
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  • {{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}}

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  • {{Commonspar|Page name here}}
  • Placed at bottom of image description
  • Supply the name of the Commons page for manual link.
{{Commonscat}}

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  • {{Commonscat|Insert category name here}}
  • Bottom of article (typically in External links).

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]].
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{{Wikinews}}

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  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)

All Wikimedia Sister projects only in box[edit]

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

Template What it makes Where it goes
{{Sisterlinks}}

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Find more information on Page name here by searching one of Wikipedia's sibling projects:

  • {{Sisterlinks|Page name here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Needs manual parameter

Metapages in Wikimedia Sister projects[edit]

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

Template What it makes Where it goes
{{Wikimediameta}}

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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).

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