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Wikimedia sister projects are all the publicly available wikis operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikipedia. This guideline covers Wikipedia's relations to the sister projects, including linking and copying content between a Wikipedia article and a sister project's article.


Contents


	1 Sister projects
	2 When to link
	3 How to link
	4 Where to place links
	4.1 Notes



	5 Soft redirects from Wikipedia to a sister project
	5.1 Specialized soft redirect templates



	6 Linking between projects
	7 Unified login or Merged Account
	8 See also





Sister projects

 



Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects:




    

   Commons 
 Free media repository 




    

   MediaWiki 
 Wiki software development 




    

   Meta-Wiki 
 Wikimedia project coordination 




    

   Wikibooks 
 Free textbooks and manuals 




    

   Wikidata 
 Free knowledge base 




    

   Wikinews 
 Free-content news 




    

   Wikiquote 
 Collection of quotations 




    

   Wikisource 
 Free-content library 




    

   Wikispecies 
 Directory of species 




    

   Wikiversity 
 Free learning resources 




    

   Wikivoyage 
 Free travel guide 




    

   Wiktionary 
 Dictionary and thesaurus 





The above list of the current English language sister projects can be easily duplicated using the {{Wikipedia's sister projects}} template.


When to link

Wikipedia encourages links from Wikipedia articles to pages on sister projects when such links are likely to be useful to our readers, and interlingual crosslinking to articles on foreign-language editions of Wikipedia whenever such links are possible.

By far the most common use of links to the non-Wikipedia sister projects is the use of images that are stored on the Wikimedia Commons site (see Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons).


How to link

See also: Help:Interwikimedia links and Help:Interlanguage links

		Wikisource has original text related to this article:
The Wind in the Willows



Links to sister projects are made in several ways:


	by linking images and other files hosted by Commons. See Wikipedia:Picture tutorial for more;
	through inline links such as this link to The Wind in the Willows ([[wikisource:The Wind in the Willows|''The Wind in the Willows'']]);
	through templates, which may produce either larger boxes or simpler one-line links. See the next section for how and where to place them; Templates are found in Wikipedia:Template messages/Sister projects and Category:Interwiki link templates;
	through standard links directly to the URL, exactly like any other website, such as The Wind in the Willows. However this form is deprecated in favour of links using [[sister-project:sister project name|display name]].


Where to place links

See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout § Links to sister projects


Shortcut
	WP:MOSSIS



Sister project links should generally appear in the "External links" section, or where appropriate in citations. Two exceptions are links to Wiktionary and Wikisource that may be linked inline (e.g. to an unusual word or the text of a document being discussed). 

Some appropriate material from Wikimedia Commons may also be linked within the main body of an article. See Embedding Commons' media in Wikipedia articles. Links to Wikinews should not be made within the main body of an article, being made only as per the external links guideline.


		Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikipedia logos.


  
A box-type template can result in excessive white space when the section is laid out in columns.



Most box-type templates such as {{Commons}} shown at right should be put at the beginning of the last section of the article (which is usually, but not necessarily, the "External links" section) so that boxes will appear next to, rather than below, the list items.[a] Do not make a section whose sole content is box-type templates. Many box links can be unified to one by using {{Sister project links}} or {{Sister project}}.

Sometimes box-type templates are not aesthetically pleasing, either because there are no external links except sister project ones, or because they result in an odd layout, such as a long sequence of right-aligned boxes hanging off the bottom of the article or excessive white space when the section is laid out in columns. In such cases, consider using "inline" templates, such as {{Commons-inline}}, in the "External links" section, so that links to sister projects appear as list items, like this:


	 Media related to Wikimedia Foundation at Wikimedia Commons


Sister project links are normally made only once within an article, as with standard links to other Wikipedia articles, 


Notes


	^ There are exceptions to this general rule. For example, {{Wiktionary}} often appears near the top of disambiguation pages and a {{wikisource}} template might appear to the right of a TOC if an article is about a treaty to which Wikisource has the original text.





Soft redirects from Wikipedia to a sister project



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	WP:SOFTSP



Sometimes an entry is more appropriate on some other sister project than on Wikipedia because they are of a non-encyclopedic scope (e.g. they can never be expanded beyond a simple dictionary definition, or call for a level of detail more appropriate to a textbook). Normally, such articles are copied to the more appropriate sister using the transwiki process, and deleted from Wikipedia afterwards.

However, if a word or phrase is commonly wikified, it is quite likely that the deleted entry will be quickly re-created again by well-meaning users. The re-created article is likely to again become non-encyclopedic.

To avoid this, do not delete after transwiki'ing. One solution, as suggested by Wikipedia deletion policy, is to instead normally redirect the word to a relevant article within Wikipedia. For instance, Organize could redirect it to a well-developed Organization article via #REDIRECT [[Organization]].

If this is not possible, turn a Wikipedia page into a soft redirect to a sister project. The plain {{soft redirect}} template is not used in the mainspace. Instead, use one of the specialized templates (see below). These templates inform readers of information on the sister project: in the case of this example a link would be provided to the wikt:Organize article. This has multiple benefits:


	It brings the sister projects closer together
	It prevents future clean-up issues



	
Wikipedia does not currently have an article on Organize, but our sister project Wiktionary does:

Read the Wiktionary entry on Organize



You can also:


	Search for Wikimedia sister projects in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings.
	Start the Wikimedia sister projects article, using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it; but please remember Wikipedia is not a dictionary.

wiktionary:Organize
	







Specialized soft redirect templates



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	WP:SSRT



Please keep in mind that only topics with a less-than-encyclopedic scope that are commonly wikified words or that are repeatedly recreated should become soft redirects. We don't need a soft redirect for every possible word or phrase to be included in Wikipedia.


	{{Double soft redirect}}; Category:Wikipedia double soft redirects – for soft redirecting to two sister projects or two different pages within one sister project
	{{Triple soft redirect}}; Category:Wikipedia triple soft redirects – for soft redirecting to three sister projects or three different pages within one sister project
	{{Wikidata redirect}}; Category:Wikidata redirects – a  special redirect category template


Mainspace exclusive


	{{Wiktionary redirect}}; Category:Redirects to Wiktionary
	{{Wikibooks redirect}}; Category:Redirects to Wikibooks
	{{Wikiquote redirect}}; Category:Redirects to Wikiquote
	{{Wikisource redirect}}; Category:Redirects to Wikisource
	{{Wikispecies redirect}}; Category:Redirects to Wikispecies
	{{Wikivoyage redirect}}; Category:Redirects to Wikivoyage
	{{Commons redirect}}; Category:Redirects to Wikimedia Commons


Linking between projects

Main page: Help:Interwikimedia links

	Project	Long form	Shortcut

	Wikipedia
	[[wikipedia:]]
	[[w:]]

	Wiktionary
	[[wiktionary:]]
	[[wikt:]]

	Wikinews
	[[wikinews:]]
	[[n:]]

	Wikibooks
	[[wikibooks:]]
	[[b:]]

	Wikiquote
	[[wikiquote:]]
	[[q:]]

	Wikisource
	[[wikisource:]]
	[[s:]]

	Wikispecies
	[[wikispecies:]]
	[[species:]]

	Wikiversity
	[[wikiversity:]]
	[[v:]]

	Wikivoyage
	[[wikivoyage:]]
	[[voy:]]

	Wikimedia Foundation
	[[wikimedia:]]
[[foundation:]]
	[[wmf:]]

	Wikimedia Commons
	[[commons:]]
	[[c:]]

	Wikidata
	[[wikidata:]]
	[[d:]]

	Meta-Wiki
	[[meta:]]
	[[m:]]

	Wikimedia Incubator
	[[incubator:]]
	

	MediaWiki
	[[mediawikiwiki:]]
	[[mw:]]

	Phabricator
	[[phabricator:]]
	[[phab:]]



Unified login or Merged Account

Main pages: Wikipedia:Unified login and Help:Unified login

Unified login is a mechanism which allows users to use a single login across the majority of the Wikimedia Foundation's sister projects. This allows users to maintain a consistent identity throughout Wikimedia, following a single sign-up. Other advantages of this mechanism include the removal of the threat that impersonation poses and the ability to visit many projects without having to go through the labors of logging in everywhere. Users can create a unified login by visiting Special:MergeAccount on a project where they already have an account, and following the prompts.


See also

	Category:Interwiki link templates
	Category:Transwiki templates
	Help:Interlanguage links
	Help:Interwikimedia links
	m:Interwiki map
	Wikipedia:List of templates linking to other free content projects


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