Templates for linking to sister projects

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See also Wikimedia projectshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Wikimedia_Coordination_and_Projects and the complete list of Wikimedia projects.

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.

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[edit] General considerations

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

[edit] Wikipedia

Pages needing to be moved:

Links to pages on the Wikipedia site:

  • Box format
    • Template:Wikipedia (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:Wikipediapar (uses parameter as in {{Wiktionarypar|SomePage}})
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{{Move to Wikipedia}}

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This page is a candidate to be moved to Wikipedia.
This article appears to be a encyclopedia entry. Please verify that this article meets the Wikipedia criteria for inclusion.

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Wikipedia has more about this subject:
Templates for linking to sister projects
  • {{wikipedia}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic search.
  • Does not link directly to pages.
{{Wikipediapar}}

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

[edit] Wikiquote

Pages needing to be moved:

Links to pages to the Wikiquote site:

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This page is a candidate to be moved to Wikiquote.
If the page can be expanded into an article suitable for Meta, rather than a list of quotes, please do so and remove this message. Otherwise, you can help by formatting it per the Wikiquote guidelines in preparation for the move.

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{{Wikiquote}}

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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
Templates for linking to sister projects
Bottom of article (typically in External links).
{{Wikiquotepar}}

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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about:
Bottom of article (typically in External links).

[edit] Wiktionary

Pages needing to be moved:

Links to pages on the Wiktionary site:

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This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary.
This article appears to be a dictionary entry, not an encyclopedia article. Meta-wiki is not a dictionary, but Wiktionary is. Please verify that this article meets the Wiktionary criteria for inclusion. If this article can be modified to be more than a dictionary entry, please do so and remove this message.

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Wiktionary has relevant definitions:
Templates for linking to sister projects
  • {{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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Look up insert word here on Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  • {{wiktionarypar|insert word here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses parameter for a manual link direct to specific articles.
{{Wiktionarypar2}}

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Look up insert 1st word here and insert 2nd word here in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  • {{wiktionarypar2|insert 1st word here|insert 2nd word here}}
  • Uses parameters for manual links direct to specific articles.
{{Wiktionarypar3}}

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  • {{wiktionarypar3|insert 1st word here|insert 2nd word here|insert 3rd word here}}
  • Uses parameters for manual links direct to specific articles.
{{Wi}}
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There is currently no encyclopedia article for Templates for linking to sister projects on Wikipedia.
For a dictionary definition of the term, please try searching for Templates for linking to sister projects on Wiktionary.
To begin an article here, feel free to edit this page, but please do not create merely a dictionary definition.

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[edit] Wikibooks

Pages needing to be moved:

Links to pages to the Wikibooks site:

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{{Move to Wikibooks}}

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This page is a candidate to be copied to Wikibooks.
If the page can be re-written into something generally considered accepted on Meta, please do so and remove this message, or move it to some other project besides Wikibooks.

Before you move this content to Wikibooks, verify that it conforms to Wikibooks policies of acceptable content at What is Wikibooks?. Often content unacceptable to the Meta Wiki may not be acceptable on Wikibooks as well.

You should also follow Transwiki guidelines when transferring content and move the article into the transwiki namespace on Wikibooks, entering a log entry at wikibooks:Wikibooks:Transwiki log to let the people at Wikibooks know that you have new content on Wikibooks. Failure to follow these guidelines may result in the content transferred to Wikibooks to simply be deleted as vandalism and spam.

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Wikibooks has more about this subject:
Templates for linking to sister projects
  • {{wikibooks}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic link.
{{Wikibookspar}}

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Wikibooks
Wikibooks has more about this subject:

{{Wikibookspar||Astronomy}}
(note missing first parameter, for a book not part of a specific collection)

Wikibooks
Wikibooks Cookbook has more about this subject:

{{Wikibookspar|Cookbook|Soups}}

Wikibooks
Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject:

{{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.
{{Wikibookschapter}}

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Wikibooks

{{wikibookschapter|book=Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter|chapter=Books/Half-Blood Prince|name=Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
  • Parameters are the main book name, the sub-page for the specific chapter, and the name to display for the link
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses parameter for a manual link.

[edit] Wikisource

Pages needing to be moved:

Links to pages to the Wikisource site:

Template What it makes Usage
{{Move to Wikisource}}

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This page is a candidate to be moved to Wikisource.
If the page can be edited into an article suitable for Meta, rather than merely a copy of the source text, please do so and remove this message. Otherwise, you can help by formatting it per the Wikisource guidelines in preparation for the move.
  • {{Move to Wikisource}}
  • Placed at top of article
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic link.
{{Wikisource}}

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There is source content on Wikisource:
[[s:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]].
  • {{Wikisource}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic link.
{{Wikisourcepar}}

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Wikisource
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
  • {{Wikisourcepar|Insert title here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Supply the name of the Wikisource article for manual link.
{{Wikisourcepar2}}

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Wikisource
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
  • {{Wikisourcepar2|link|Insert title here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Supply the name of the Wikisource article for manual link and the title of the link.
{{Wikisourcelang}}

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Wikisource
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
  • {{Wikisourcelang|Insert lang|link|Insert title here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Supply the language domain, the name of the Wikisource article for manual link, and the title of the link.
{{Wikisource author}}

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Wikisource
Wikisource has original works written by or about:
  • {{Wikisource author}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic link.
{{Wikisource1911Enc}}

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Wikisource
Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article:
  • {{Wikisource1911Enc|Insert title here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Supply the name of the 1911 Encyclopedia article for manual link.

[edit] Wikimedia Commons

Template What it makes Usage
{{Move to Wikimedia Commons}}

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This page is a candidate to be moved to the Wikimedia Commons.
Meta is not a collection of photographs or media files with no text to go with the articles.

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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]]).
{{Commons}}

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
Templates for linking to sister projects
  • {{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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Commons
  • {{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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Commons:Category
Wikimedia Commons has more media related to:
  • {{Commonscat|Insert category name here}}
  • Bottom of article (typically in External links).

[edit] Wikinews

Moving pages to Wikinews is not possible, for legal reasons. (Copying material to Wikinews would put it under Creative Commons License, which violates the GFDL.)

Links to pages on the Wikinews site:

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  • To link in-line with other text, create an interwiki link in the format: [[Wikinews:SomeArticleTitle|reference to the Wikinews article]].
Template What it makes Where it goes
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Wikinews has news related to this article:
Templates for linking to sister projects
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses {{PAGENAME}} for linking to the same name Wikinews page.
{{Wikinewspar}}

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Wikinews
Wikinews has news related to this article:
  • {{wikinewspar|insert article name here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Uses parameter (i.e. insert news page name here) for a manual link.
{{Wikinewscat}}

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Wikinews
Wikinews has news related to:
  • {{Wikinewscat|Insert category name here}}
  • Bottom of article (typically in External links).

[edit] All Wikimedia Sister projects only in box

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

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

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Look up Templates for linking to sister projects in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Look up Templates for linking to sister projects in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up Templates for linking to sister projects in Wikinews, the free content news source. Look up Templates for linking to sister projects in Wikiquote, the free quotations. Look up Templates for linking to sister projects in Wikisource the free source Look up Templates for linking to sister projects in Commons the free repository
  • {{Wikimediapro}}.
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in Internal or External links).
  • Cannot use parameters for a manual link, because the link is automatic.
  • Coordinated and coherent (used in all the wikimedia sisterprojects and in the same way).
{{Sisterlinks}}

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

Wiktionary (a free dictionary)
Wikibooks (free textbooks)
Wikiquote (quotations)
Wikisource (a free library)
Commons (images and media)
Wikinews (news stories)
  • {{Sisterlinks|Page name here}}
  • Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links)
  • Needs manual parameter

[edit] Metapages in Wikimedia Sister projects

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 ofWikisource. 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.
  • {{Wikimedia}}.
  • 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).

[edit] See also

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