Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-45256102-20200321143933/@comment-9605025-20200321161133

Well, the second link seems to be working here. I am not sure where you got that third link from. I would not expect that one to link to the French Wikipedia so if you saw that in an actual example please tell me where so I can correct the example.

Interlanguage links can be thought of as a special kind of interwiki link. The interwiki prefix is a language code and the target is a different language version of the same wiki. So using an interlanguage link on your wiki (or any Fandom wiki) would not link to Wikipedia since Wikipedia isn't even a Fandom wiki.

Interwiki links are recognized because there is a list of prefixes that have special meaning. If a prefix is not on the list, then it won't get recognized as an interwiki link. If I recall correctly, "wp" is not on the list for most Fandom wikis; Community Central is an exception for some reason. Therefore, you cannot use "wp" to link to Wikipedia; you need to use "wikipedia".