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Wikipedia:Sister projects |
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It has been suggested that some sections of this page be split into a new page entitled Wikipedia:Template messages/Sister projects. (Discuss) (May 2008) |
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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. |
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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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.
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This page's designation as a policy or guideline is disputed or under discussion. Please see the relevant talk page discussion for further information. |
Wikipedia encourages links from Wikipedia articles to high-quality pages on sister projects where useful, and interlingual crosslinking to articles on foreign-language editions of Wikipedia wherever possible.
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.
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.
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:
| Wikipedia does not have an encyclopedia article for Wikimedia sister projects. You may want to search Wiktionary for "Organize" instead for a dictionary entry. |  |
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.
This section lists templates that are designed to provide article-to-article linking between Wikipedia and its Wikimedia sister projects. It also provides links to pages concerning moving articles between projects.
Links to pages on the MediaWiki site:
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| {{MediaWiki}} |
 MediaWiki wiki has a page about this at:
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| {{ mlmw | target_page| optional anchor_name| optional_label }} |
mw:Target_page#optional_anchor_name or optional_label
This template produces an interwiki link to mediawiki.org, and also a "hidden external link", to allow it to be found by Linksearch, e.g. [1]. |
Anywhere on page |
| {{Media}} | Places the page in the appropriate category. |
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Links to pages on the Meta-Wiki site:
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| {{Meta}} |
 Meta has related information at:
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| {{Copy to Meta}} |
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| {{ mlm | target_page| optional anchor_name| optional_label }} |
m:Target_page#optional_anchor_name or optional_label
This template produces an interwiki link to Meta, and also a "hidden external link", to allow it to be found by Linksearch, e.g. [2]. |
Anywhere on page |
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Please help improve this section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. |
Links to pages on the Wikibooks site:
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| {{Copy to Wikibooks}} |
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| {{Wikibooks}} |
 Wikibooks has more on the topic of
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Placed next to an appropriate section, if there is one (e.g links to annotated works next to the "Plot" or "Synopsis" section). Otherwise in "See also" section. |
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Placed next to an appropriate section, if there is one. Otherwise in "See also" section. |
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| {{Wikibookspar}} |
 Wikibooks' [[wikibooks:|]] has more about this subject:
{{Wikibookspar||Astronomy}} {{Wikibookspar|Cookbook|Soups}} Wikibooks' Wikiversity has more about this subject:
{{Wikibookspar|Wikiversity|School of Education}} |
Placed next to an appropriate section, if there is one. Links to recipes next to a section discussing the creation of a dish, for example. |
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| {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} |
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| {{Commons}} |
 Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
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| {{Commons cat}} |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
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| {{Commonsimages}} |
 Wikimedia Commons has more pictures of: Commons page name
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| {{Commonsimages cat}} |
Wikimedia Commons has more pictures of: Insert category name here
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Moving pages to Wikinews is not possible, for legal reasons. Copying material to Wikinews would put it under the CC-BY license, which violates the GFDL. However Wikinews articles can be moved to Wikipedia.
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| {{Wikinews}} |
 Wikinews has related news:
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| {{Wikinewscat}} |
 Wikinews has related news:
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| {{Wikinewsportal}} |
Wikinews has a related section:
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| {{Wikinewspar2}} |
Wikinews has related news:
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| {{Wikinewshas}} |
 Wikinews has insert description here:
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Links to pages on the Wikiquote site:
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| {{Copy to Wikiquote}} |
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Top of article or section. | ||
| {{ Copy section to Wikiquote }} |
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Top of section which is long enough to be better suited at Wikiquote. |
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| {{Wikiquote}} |
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
{{wikiquote}} - provides link that invokes a search of Wikiquote, using the current page's name ({{PAGENAME}}) |
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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
{{wikiquote|Duke Nukem}} - provides a link to a specific Wikiquote page for the given word (1st parameter). Uses that parameter as the display name. |
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{{wikiquote|The Simpsons#Bart Simpson|Bart Simpson}} - provides a link to a specific Wikiquote page (1st parameter) and an optional display name (2nd parameter) Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
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Links to pages on the Wikisource site:
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| {{Copy to Wikisource|Optional comment}} |
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| {{ Copy section to Wikisource }} |
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Top of section which is long enough to be better suited at Wikisource. |
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| {{Wikisource}} |
{{wikisource}} - provides link that invokes a search of Wikisource, using the current page's name ({{PAGENAME}})  Wikisource has original text related to this article:
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adjoining a body reference to the source or in the External links section with other sister project links | ||
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{{wikisource|William Wilson}} - provides a link to a specific Wikisource page for the given word (1st parameter). Uses that parameter as the display name. Wikisource has original text related to this article:
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{{wikisource|Aesop's Fables-2#The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf|The Boy Who Cried Wolf}} - provides a link to a specific Wikisource page (1st parameter) and an optional display name (2nd parameter) Wikisource has original text related to this article:
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{{Wikisourcelang|fr|Voltaire|Voltaire}}  French Wikisource has original text related to this article:
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{{Wikisourceold|Universala Deklaracio de Homaj Rajtoj|Universala Deklaracio de Homaj Rajtoj}}  Wikisource has original text related to this article:
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| {{Wikisource author}} |
{{wikisource author}} - Links to Author: page, using the current page's name ({{PAGENAME}}) Wikisource has original works written by or about:
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{{wikisource author|James Joyce}} - provides a link to a specific Wikisource page for the given word (1st parameter). Uses that parameter as the display name. Wikisource has original works written by or about:
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{{Wikisource author|George Herbert Walker Bush|George H. W. Bush}} - provides a link to a specific Wikisource page (1st parameter) and an optional display name (2nd parameter) Wikisource has original works written by or about:
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| {{Wikisource index}} |
{{wikisource index}} - Links to Wikisource: page (i.e. where Wikisource topic index pages reside), using the current page's name ({{PAGENAME}}) Wikisource has original works on the topic:
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{{wikisource index|Australia}} - provides a link to a specific Wikisource topic index page for the given word (1st parameter). Uses that parameter as the display name. Wikisource has original works on the topic:
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{{Wikisource index|Banksia marginata|B. marginata}} - provides a link to a specific Wikisource topic index page (1st parameter) and an optional display name (2nd parameter) Wikisource has original works on the topic:
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| {{Wikisourcecat}} |
{{Wikisourcecat|Hymns}}  Wikisource has several original texts related to:
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{{Wikisource1911Enc|Insert title here}} |
External links section | ||
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{{Wikisource1913CatholicEnc|Insert title here}} |
External links section | ||
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{{WikisourceEBD1897|Insert title here}} |
External links section | ||
| {{Wikisource1914NSRW}} |
{{Wikisource1914NSRW|Insert title here}} Wikisource has an original article from the The New Student's Reference Work about:
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External links section |
Links to pages on the Wikispecies site:
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| {{Wikispecies}} |
 Wikispecies has information related to:
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Links to pages on the Wikiversity site:
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| {{Wikiversity}} |
 At Wikiversity, you can learn about: Insert page title here
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| {{Wikiversity2}} |
 At Wikiversity you can learn about SUBJECT at:
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Links to pages on the Wiktionary site:
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| {{Wiktionary}} |
 {{wiktionary}} - provides link that invokes a search of Wiktionary, using the current page's name ({{PAGENAME}}); uses a search rather than linking directly to a page — because Wiktionary article titles are fully case sensitive, this may not yield the desired result |
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{{wiktionary|sophisticated}} - provides a link to a specific Wiktionary page for the given word (1st parameter). Uses that parameter as the display name. |
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{{wiktionary|sophisticated|Sophistic}} - provides a link to a specific Wiktionary page (1st parameter) and an optional display name (2nd parameter) |
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{{wiktionarypar|first-word|second-word|third-word}} |
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| {{Wti}} | {{Wti}}
{{Wti|Wiktionary Page}}
{{Wti|Wiktionary Page|Link Text}}
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| [[wikt:SomeWord|definition of SomeWord]] | wikt:Sophisticated |
A word inline with text. |
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