Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects
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This page documents an English Wikipedia style guideline. It is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though it is best treated with common sense and the occasional exception. Any substantive edit to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page. |
- To link sister projects using traditional inline text links see Wikipedia:InterWikimedia links.
Wikimedia sister projects are all the publicly available wikis operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, including the Wikipedia. This guideline covers Wikipedia's relations to the sister projects, including linking and copying content between Wikipedia article and a sister project.
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Sister projects
Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects:
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Commons Free media repository |
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Wikinews Free-content news |
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Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus |
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Wikiquote Collection of quotations |
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Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals |
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Wikisource Free-content library |
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Wikispecies Directory of species |
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Wikiversity Free learning materials and activities |
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Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination |
The above list of the current English language sister projects can be easily duplicated in any article using {{WikipediaSister}} template.
Guidelines
Wikipedia encourages links from Wikipedia articles to pages on sister projects where useful, and interlingual crosslinking to articles on foreign-language editions of Wikipedia wherever possible.
Examples of helpful sister project links would be a link to Wikiquote placed in a biography article alongside any discussion of famous quotations by the individual, or a link to Wikinews placed at the head of an article about an ongoing news event. Links to WikiMedia Commons image categories are commonly found at the end of articles on buildings, monuments, and locations. Wiktionary links are often used in Wikipedia articles, either as in-line links to define obscure terms which do not have Wikipedia pages, or in template form in the lead section of disambiguation pages.
Placement of links
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Links to Wikimedia sister projects are best placed in the section of the article to which they relate, including the lead section, if necessary. As with standard article links, convention is to include each sister project link only once within an article, at the first appropriate point. If there is no directly relevant section in the page, then they are placed as described in Wikipedia:Layout.
To avoid confusion, common interproject link targets have standardized templates which allow them to be easily distinguished from normal external links, and these templates should generally be used.
Soft redirects from Wikipedia to a sister project
Sometimes an entry is more appropriate on Wiktionary than Wikipedia and can never be expanded beyond simple dictionary definition. Normally, such articles are copied to Wiktionary using transwiki process, and deleted from Wikipedia afterwards.
However, if the word or phrase is commonly wikified, it is quite likely that the deleted entry will be quickly re-created again by well-meaning users. The re-created article is likely to be another simple dictionary definition, just as inappropriate for Wikipedia as the original.
To avoid this, do not delete after transwiki'ing. One solution, as suggested by Wikipedia deletion policy, is to instead normally redirect the word to a relevant article within Wikipedia. For instance, Organize could redirect it to a well-developed Organization article via #REDIRECT [[Organization]].
If this is not possible, turn a Wikipedia page into a soft redirect to a sister project. This is done by replacing the page with either the {{softredirect}} template, or one of specialized templates (template {{wi}} is recommended in case of Wiktionary). These templates inform reader to look for information on the sister project, in case of this example provide link to wikt:Organize article. This has multiple benefits:
- it brings the sister projects closer together,
- it prevents future clean up issues.
| Wikipedia does not have an encyclopedia article for Wikimedia sister projects (search results). You may wish to read Wiktionary's entry on "Organize" instead. |
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This applies to other sister projects as well, not only to Wiktionary. Please keep in mind that only commonly wikified words should become soft redirects. We don't need a soft redirect for every possible word or phrase to be included in Wikipedia.
Templates
Linking between projects
| Project | Long form | Shortcut |
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| Wikipedia | [[wikipedia:]] |
[[w:]] |
| Wiktionary | [[wiktionary:]] |
[[wikt:]] |
| Wikinews | [[wikinews:]] |
[[n:]] |
| Wikibooks | [[wikibooks:]] |
[[b:] |
| Wikiquote | [[wikiquote:]] |
[[q:]] |
| Wikisource | [[wikisource:]] |
[[s:]] |
| Wikispecies | [[wikispecies:]] |
[[species:]] |
| Wikiversity | [[wikiversity:]] |
[[v:]] |
| Wikimedia Foundation | [[wikimedia:]] |
[[wmf:]] |
| Wikimedia Commons | [[commons:]] |
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| Wikimedia Meta-Wiki | [[meta:]] |
[[m:]] |
| Wikimedia Incubator | [[incubator:]] |
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| MediaWiki | [[mw:]] |
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| Bugzilla | [[mediazilla:]] |
[[bugzilla:]] |
See also
- Wikipedia:InterWikimedia links
- Help:Interlanguage links
- Category:Interwiki link templates
- meta:Interwiki map
- Category:Transwiki templates
- Wikipedia:List of templates linking to other free content projects
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