Help:Interwiki linking
Wikimedia help page or project page about interwiki linking (technical description or policy)
Interwiki links are links to pages across different Wikimedia projects or different Wikipedia languages, and may point to another project, another language, or both (i.e., a different project in a different language).
Interproject links: By adding a prefix to another Wikimedia project, internal link style ("prefixed internal link style") can be used to link to a page of another project. A system of short-handed link labels is used to refer to different projects, in the context of interproject linking, as seen within the actual source text. For example, to link from here to the "surfeit" article on Wiktionary, you have to utilise an interwiki link: [[wikt:surfeit]] appears as wikt:surfeit, and [[wikt:surfeit|surfeit]] appears as surfeit.
Interlanguage links: These are interwiki links linking different language editions of the same project. Wikimedia Projects with different language editions are: WikipediaWiktionaryWikisourceWikiquoteWikibooksWikiversityWikivoyageWikinews There are two types of interlanguage links: those displayed in the page's languages dropdown menu and those displayed inline. Here an example for both types if placed in the English Wikipedia article Apple:
[[fr:Pomme]]: This produces a link to the French Wikipedia article Pomme in the "Languages" menu of the page. Note: Since 2013 this type of interlanguage link is usually centralized through Wikidata, which you can edit either by opening the Wikidata item, or selecting "Add language".
[[:fr:Pomme]]: This produces an inline interlanguage link fr:Pomme in the English Wikipedia article.
This is called interwiki.
“Help:Interwiki linking” enters the record as wikimedia help page or project page about interwiki linking (technical description or policy). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Help, Interwiki and linking can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Help:Interwiki linking” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Help, Interwiki and linking provides the most credible route into that argument.
Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6581184. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013.
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This entry incorporates text from “Help:Interwiki linking” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.