Wikipedia:Interwiki
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Interwikis (short for interwikimedia links) are links you can make between wikis which are normally used to display links to articles in other languages, but can also be used in the article text to link to other projects, for example, Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons.
It is important to add interwikis to other languages. They help people to find more information and other Wikipedias.
Please add interwikis to other languages. You can also help adding a interwiki link to a Simple English page from the English Wikipedia page. Almost articles on the Simple English Wikipedia have articles in the English Wikipedia.
If the page "Example" has interwikis, and the pages in other languages also have interwikis to this page (Example), bots can add more interwikis.
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[edit] Making links between languages
At the bottom of the article, type the code for the language followed by the page title in that language in square brackets. For example, in an article on the Internet, a link to the English Wikipedia would look like this:
[[en:Internet]]
'en:' is the language code and 'Internet' is the page title. Remember that the title in the link must be the same as the title in the language you are linking to.
You might find a list of links to put on a page at the bottom of the articles on the English Wikipedia. Links to other languages are always in alphabetical order.
When you have completed all that, preview the article: the link should appear in the left-hand toolbar.
[edit] User pages
Adding a link to your user page at another Wikipedia is the same as creating a link for an article. If your user name on the English Wikipedia is "Example", then you would add [[en:User:Example]] at the bottom of your user page. If you also had the same user name on the Japanese Wikipedia, you would add [[ja:User:Example]] (ja: is the language code for Japanese).
[edit] Linking to other Wikimedia projects
First of all, check Wikipedia:Sister projects to see if a template in your article would work for what you want to do.
If not, find where you want the link in the article, and type the code for the project and the page title in that project in square brackets. You could also type text to appear instead of the link. For a link to the main page of the Simple English Wiktionary, you would type:
[[wikt:simple:Main Page|Simple English Wiktionary]]
'simple:' tells Wiktionary what language to display itself in. The link looks like this:
