Help talk:Interwiki links

Interlanguage link
There is a referring page in German available which shoud be linked with de:Hilfe:Interwiki-Links. --Thomas Tunsch 10:45, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

The Elder Scrolls Fanon Wiki WikiNode
Wow, I just created a WikiNode for Elder Scrolls Fanon and another one for the OblivioWiki, and now this page shows up. I hope other users try to connect wikis together. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 21:03, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm a bit surprised (pleasantly!) at how well this is received (not just by you - by the initial members as well). I feel a bit like Jack with his beanstalk.


 * Anyway, I've edited in details for membership application, although none of the existing members have yet reviewed them. --Jesdisciple (talk) 21:29, 22 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Im afraid I am with your colleagues on this - I found it hard to know what you were trying to say, probably because I am missing important bits of knowledge. I couldnt get my head around what a wikinode was and got lost in the notion of parent articles and children etc. For me it needs some diagrams with examples. Dr Joe Kiff 17:23, 27 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for identifying a problem I can shoot at! I've just uploaded an image; please see if it clears things up for you. --Jesdisciple (talk) 06:23, 29 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm close to Dr Joe's position though probably a little ahead: I have created several wikinodes (though not with the avoidance of capital letters that one enthusiast advocated), and I create links between Wikia sites frequently. I wonder if Jes could add some real examples inside those interesting but empty coloured boxes??
 * Robin Patterson 13:33, 30 November 2008 (UTC) in New Zealand.

Any Advantages?
Are there any advantages to using this over just providing an external link to another wiki on Wikia? Darkman 4 22:43, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * URL links can be block due to spam, and interwiki are shorter if you want to save bits of bytes --Cizagna (Talk) Central Dofus 00:03, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Interwiki requests
I think it could be interesting to add a link to this page. --Cywil 20:49, January 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * Added. Kirkburn (talk) 12:35, January 25, 2010 (UTC)

Redirects that won't work
A few minutes ago, I tried to redirect a redlink on the iCarly Wikia Episode Guide to the Victorious Wikia, but I would up on a Wikia page I didn't want to be on. I can't even display the pages on this message board. I had no problem interwikilinking until tonight. Can somebody fix this for me? DanTD 00:47, August 15, 2010 (UTC)

Change suggestions
Just a couple minor corrections I would like to propose. &mdash;User:Jak Himself (talk) 22:47, February 28, 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) "Interwiki links are shortcuts that prevents you needing to use the full URL," because "shortcuts" is a plural, the following verb should be singular ("prevent") so it would change as follows "Interwiki links are shortcuts that prevent you needing to use the full URL," or probably better, using a different article to change the mode: "Interwiki links are shortcuts which prevent the need to use the full URL," I'm not really good at explaining English rules/grammar and stuff but to me the proposition sounds more natural.
 * 2) "So for example if you wanted to link to the Jedi page on Wookiepedia, you would use w:c:Starwars:Jedi." The correct spelling is "Wookieepedia" (two "e"s before the "p")
 * Done, but it's a wiki, you can as well fix it as you see fit. The admins/staff will intervene if it gets out of hands. –Dunnoob (talk) 05:27, March 3, 2014 (UTC)


 * Ahh okay. On the wiki I got here from it says something along the lines of "suggest changes here" and provides a link to this page so I assumed that's what we were supposed to do. Thanks! &mdash;User:Jak Himself (talk) 17:19, March 5, 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, I'll clarify about that: it's best not to overhaul the entire Help page (which is transcluded on thousands of wikis, mind you!) without having a discussion first, hence the "suggest changes here", but nobody's gonna yell at you for fixing an itty grammar error. Thisismyrofl (talk) 18:36, March 5, 2014 (UTC)

c:
What is the c short for? Alysdexia (talk) 22:29, September 20, 2014 (UTC)


 * Which c? In  the w:c: roughly means another wikia &mdash; Wikia was Wiki cities many years ago, that explains the w:c:. In   the 2nd c: is a shorthand for community, where we are.  In other words, you can link to community central from another wikia with w:c:c:, example:   goes to this page here from any wikia.  The folks on meta: decided to use c: at the begin as shorthand for  some months ago, but I can't tell how far they are with this project, and when (or if) Wikia will also support it. At the moment   results in a bad link here. –Dunnoob (talk) 14:49, September 26, 2014 (UTC)

Images
Can this be used to make an image in your signature appear across all Wikias?  OLIOSTER  (talk) 09:22, March 27, 2015 (UTC)


 * Having interwiki in your sig puts some strain on the server (or something), so they really wish you don't. Try using the url instead. -- Tupka 217 10:19, March 27, 2015 (UTC)

Linking to a Wikia site from an off-Wikia community
This section currently offers two formats/syntax examples for linking to Wikia from off-Wikia sites:
 * or

However, when trying to use the first one on Wikipedia, it doesn't work. I tried  and had to change it to. I thought maybe it was just because I was linking to a Community Central page, but no, linking to other Wikia wikis from Wikipedia also required removal of c: in order to work.

Is the example syntax correct? Maybe it changed and needs to be updated? Or is this a special case just for Wikipedia?—that should probably be added since off-Wikia links to Wikia are probably common on large wikis like Wikipedia.