Help:Interwiki linking

Interwiki linking (linking to an article on Wikipedia, a Wikia, or other wiki in general) is medium-complicated, but not that hard to learn.

Linking to Wikipedia

To link to the Wikipedia article "Trains" type; [[Wikipedia:Trains]]

• Wikipedia:Trains

As with regular links, link text can be provided after a pipe character; [[Wikipedia:Trains|Trains on Wikipedia]]

• Trains on Wikipedia

[[W:Trains]] or {{W|Trains}} can also be used as shorter alternatives.

• W:Trains
• Trains

Linking to Wikias

There are two kinds of wikia-link markup. To link to the article "Supergate" on the "Stargate" wikia, use this format; [[Wikia:sgcommand:Supergate]]

• Wikia:sgcommand:Supergate

The other format, used by many older wikis, includes a 'wikia:c:' prefix, a holdover from Wikia's 'Wikicities' days. To link to the article "Shipwreck" on the "Gijoe" wikia, use this format; [[wikia:c:gijoe:Shipwreck]]:

• wikia:c:gijoe:Shipwreck

Several sites on Wikia, such as Memory Alpha, have their own domain and can be linked to using a similar pattern to non-Wikia wiki: [[MemoryAlpha:James T. Kirk]]:

• MemoryAlpha:James T. Kirk

Linking to other wikis

Other sites of relevance to TFWiki can be linked to:

• TVTropes can be linked to using links of the form [[tvtropes:Main/DullSurprise|Dull Surprise]] which produces a link that looks like this:
  Dull Surprise.
• IMDB can be linked to using links of the form [[imdb:tt0418279|Transformers (2007)]] which produces a link that looks like this:
  Transformers (2007).

Linking from Wikipedia

When editing pages on Wikipedia, links to TFWiki can be made using a similar syntax. For instance linking to our Generation 1 Optimus Prime article from a Wikipedia article can be done as follows:

• [[TFWiki:Optimus Prime (G1)]]