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 occasional exceptions may apply. Any substantive edit to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page. |
Wikimedia sister projects are all the publicly available wikis operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikipedia. This guideline covers Wikipedia's relations to the sister projects, including linking and copying content between a Wikipedia article and a sister project's article.
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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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MediaWiki Wiki software development |
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Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination |
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Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals |
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Wikidata Free knowledge base |
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Wikinews Free-content news |
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Wikiquote Collection of quotations |
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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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Wikivoyage Free travel guide |
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Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus |
The above list of the current English language sister projects can be easily duplicated using the {{Wikipedia's sister projects}} template.
When to link
Wikipedia encourages links from Wikipedia articles to pages on sister projects when such links are likely to be useful to our readers, and interlingual crosslinking to articles on foreign-language editions of Wikipedia whenever such links are possible.
By far, the most common use of links to the non-Wikipedia sister projects is the use of images that are stored on the Wikimedia Commons site (see Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons).
How to link
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Wikisource has original text related to this article: |
Links to sister projects are made in several ways:
- by linking images and other files hosted by Commons. See Wikipedia:Picture tutorial for more;
- through inline links such as this link to The Wind in the Willows;
- through templates, which may produce either larger boxes or simpler one-line links. See the next section for how and where to place them; Templates are found in Wikipedia:Template messages/Sister projects and Category:Interwiki link templates;
- through standard links directly to the URL, exactly like any other website, such as The Wind in the Willows.
Where to place links
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It has been suggested that this section be merged into Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#Links to sister projects. (Discuss) Proposed since February 2016. |
Sister project links should generally appear in the "External links" section. Two exceptions are links to Wiktionary and Wikisource that may be linked inline (e.g. to an unusual word or the text of a document being discussed).
Some appropriate material from Wikimedia Commons may also be linked within the main body of an article. See Embedding Commons' media in Wikipedia articles.
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikipedia logos. |
Most box-type templates such as {{Commons}} shown at right should be put at the beginning of the last section of the article (which is usually, but not necessarily, the "External links" section) so that boxes will appear next to, rather than below, the list items.[1] Do not make a section whose sole content is box-type templates. Many box links can be unified to one by using {{Sister project links}} or {{Subject bar}}.
Sometimes box-type templates are not aesthetically pleasing, either because there are no external links except sister project ones, or because they result in an odd layout, such as a long sequence of right-aligned boxes hanging off the bottom of the article or excessive white space when the section is laid out in columns. In such cases, consider using "inline" templates, such as {{Commons-inline}}, in the "External links" section, so that links to sister projects appear as list items, like this:
Media related to Wikimedia Foundation at Wikimedia Commons
As with standard links to other Wikipedia articles, sister project links are normally made only once within an article.
Notes
- ^ There are exceptions to this general rule for example
{{Wiktionary}}often appears near the top of disambiguation pages and{{wikisource}}templates sometimes appear to the right of a TOC if for example an article is about a treaty to which Wikisource has the original text.
Soft redirects from Wikipedia to a sister project
Sometimes an entry is more appropriate on Wiktionary than Wikipedia and can never be expanded beyond a simple dictionary definition. Normally, such articles are copied to Wiktionary using the 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 the case of Wiktionary). These templates inform readers of information on the sister project: in the case of this example a link would be provided to the 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 article with this exact name. Please search for Wikimedia sister projects in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings.
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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.
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:]] |
| Wikivoyage | [[wikivoyage:]] |
[[voy:]] |
| Wikimedia Foundation | [[wikimedia:]] |
[[wmf:]] |
| Wikimedia Commons | [[commons:]] |
[[c:]] |
| Wikidata | [[wikidata:]] |
[[d:]] |
| Meta-Wiki | [[meta:]] |
[[m:]] |
| Wikimedia Incubator | [[incubator:]] |
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| MediaWiki | [[mediawikiwiki:]] |
[[mw:]] |
| Phabricator | [[phabricator:]] |
[[phab:]] |
Unified login or Merged Account
Unified login is a mechanism which allows users to use a single login across the majority of the Wikimedia Foundation's sister projects. This allows users to maintain a consistent identity throughout Wikimedia, following a single sign-up. Other advantages of this mechanism include the removal of the threat that impersonation poses and the ability to visit many projects without having to go through the labors of logging in everywhere. Users can create a unified login by visiting Special:MergeAccount on a project where they already have an account, and following the prompts.
See also
- Category:Interwiki link templates
- Category:Transwiki templates
- Help:Interlanguage links
- Help:Interwikimedia links
- m:Interwiki map
- Wikipedia:List of templates linking to other free content projects
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