Help:Interwiki links

An interwiki link is a link to another community, most often found within the body of an article. It can be to another Fandom community or any of the sites listed on the interwiki map. It's an easy, wikitext way to link to a page on another wiki without having to type out a whole URL.

To type an interwiki link, you must be using source editor. Be aware that the link won't work in the preview section, but works fine once saved (bug discussion).

Linking to another Fandom wiki
To create an interwiki link to a different Fandom wiki, use the syntax.
 * Example: To link to "The Queen Victoria" page on the Eastenders Wiki, you would use.
 * If you would like to modify the displayed text, simply add a  after the link, followed by your desired text.
 * Example:  would display as [[w:c:eastenders:The Queen Victoria|test.
 * You might want to actually click on newly-made interwiki links to ensure you didn't make any typos. Unlike links to pages within your current Fandom wiki, interwiki links don't display in different colour text if the target page doesn't exist.
 * Example: The link for  displays the same as the not-yet-created.
 * Non-English Fandom wikis often use language code prefixes. It's important to write the page name in the target language.
 * Example: You'll typically link to a page from a German Fandom wiki by putting  before the wiki name:.
 * Example:  won't link to the Russian Disney Wiki "Donald Duck" page, but   will.

Linking to an external wiki
External (i.e, non-Fandom) wikis listed in the interwiki map can be linked to with the syntax.
 * Articles from some external wikis can only be linked to by using one specific prefix.
 * Example: Wiktionary only uses the prefix.
 * In other cases, external wikis have multiple prefixes that can be used for interwiki links to their articles.
 * Example: Wikipedia articles can be linked to with the syntax  or.
 * Example: Wikimedia can be linked to with the syntax,  , or.
 * Interwiki prefixes are generally not case-sensitive.
 * Example:,   and   all go to the same article.
 * Just like with Fandom wikis, external wiki links can specify language, and the page name must be in the target language. However, in some cases, a non-English wiki article will share the same page name as the English version.
 * Example:  won't link to the Welsh Wikipedia "Wales" article, but   will, as "Cymru" is Welsh for "Wales."
 * Example: The word for "India" is the same in both English and Spanish, so the only difference between the interwiki links for the two Wikipedia "India" articles is the language prefix:  for English, and   for Spanish.
 * Many non-Fandom MediaWiki help pages are kept on https://mediawiki.org/wiki/, which can be linked to with . Don't confuse this with the MediaWiki: namespace for system messages.

Linking to a Fandom wiki from an external wiki
Some non-Fandom wikis allow you to link back to a Fandom wiki using one of the following syntaxes:

For example, typing  on a non-Fandom wiki would link to the "Kermit" page on the Muppet Wiki (if interwiki linking is set up on the target external wiki, that is).
 * (on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects)

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