Help:Interwiki links

An interwiki link is a link to another wiki on Wikia, or to any other wiki listed on the interwiki map, using the abbreviated form  wikiname:pagetitle . This prevents you needing to use the full URL, and will prevent links from breaking if a wiki later changes its address.

Linking to another Wikia
To link from a Wikia to another, use  w:c: wikiname : pagename , e.g. &#91;&#91;w:c:Starwars:Jedi&#93;&#93;. Some Wikia have their own wiki prefix; for example, the Star Wars Wikia has a prefix of "Starwars", and its Jedi page can be linked via Starwars:Jedi.

Linking to another language version of your wiki (Interlanguage links)
To link to another language version of your wiki, use  languagecode : pagename , e.g. fr : fromage  will link to the "fromage" article on the French-language version of that wiki. If you leave off the pagename, it will use the pagename of the article the interwiki link is placed on.

Generally such links are placed alphabetically by language code at the end of an article, and will show up in the sidebar. See Help:Interlanguage links for more information.


 * Note: because different languages can use different wiki names (such as the English cycling.wikia.com and the French cyclisme.wikia.com), interlanguage linking must be manually activated by the community team. If your topic has another language version at Wikia, and you would like to activate interlanguage linking, please leave a request at Wikia:Community Central:Interwiki requests.

Linking to Community Central Wikia
You can use the format Page name (or just Page name ) to link to pages on the Community Central Wikia site.

Linking to an External Wiki
Sites listed in the interwiki map can be linked via  wiki prefix:page name . For example,  Jedi  will be converted to link to the English Wikipedia's "Jedi" article: Jedi.

Note that the name used in the interwiki link is not always exactly the same as the domain or sub-domain, e.g. vs. http://meta.wikimedia.org

See the interwiki map for interwiki prefixes for an ever-growing list of individual external wikis.

Link to a Wikia site from an external wiki
If the Central Wikia is in the interwiki map of another wiki, you can link to any Wikia using the syntax: Wikia:c:Wiki name:Page title or Wikiasite:Projectname:Page title

For example,  Wikia:c:Starwars:Jedi  or  Wikiasite:Starwars:Jedi </tt> from a wiki outside Wikia would link to http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jedi

The c stands for "city" (a legacy from Wikia's origin as "Wikicities") and makes use of automatic redirects.

Interwiki Redirects
It is sometimes possible to redirect to another wiki using interwiki links (although this has now been disabled by default in MediaWiki). Such redirects are not recommended since they can be surprising and confusing for users to be taken automatically to a different wiki.

There is no easy way for the user to return to the original page other than using the "back" button on their browser, and it is difficult to edit the page once redirected. Redirects of user pages are especially harmful, since it prevents people finding the contributions list of that user. A soft redirect can be used as an alternative.

Styling Interwiki Links
See Help:Changing the style of interwiki links.