Help:Interwiki linking
Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary
- See also the central meta-wiki for this page.
An interwiki link is a link from an entry in the English wiktionary to an entry for the same word on a different Wiktionary. These links do not show up in the page itself, but are displayed in a toolbar to the left.
Interwiki links are placed at the end of the page's wikitext, one on each line. On Wiktionary they always link to pages with exactly the same title, even if that page is redirect page, this is different from Wikipedia's translation-based method. It is not necessary to add such links to the English Wiktionary as we have two robots (User:Interwicket and User:VolkovBot) who do this for us.
Interlanguage links consist of the language prefix and then the name of the page (i. e. [[de:word]]. If you want to link to a different Wiktionary inline (for example on discussion pages), add a prefix at the beginning, i. e. [[:de:word]] (which becomes de:word).
You can also link to other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation using their respective prefixes. For example [[q:de:Hauptseite]] links to the German Wikiquote (please note the project prefix should come first).
For example, the interwiki links on philology at the time of writing were:
[[fr:philology]] [[io:philology]] [[lt:philology]] [[pl:philology]] [[fi:philology]] [[ta:philology]] [[te:philology]] [[vi:philology]] [[tr:philology]] [[zh:philology]]
