Help talk:Interwiki linking

message: Interlinking between files - this information needs to much easier for the newbie to find for the commons to actually be useful to other wikimedia projects. I had to go to about ten different help pages before I found this piece of information, which should be very easy to find. The less dedicated user would just give up. Cheers 150.203.230.27 23:08, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Interlinking between files

message: The page currently shows the long-form link to be [[wikipedia:]].  Are four brackets required, or just double brackets on each side? Newportm (talk) 01:07, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No response to this post, so I changed it to be consistent within the article.  –Newportm (talk • contribs) 14:38, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki link to Wikipedia 

message: Can a link be set up to allow Wikipedia to link to Wikicommons without a redirect on Template:Sister_project_links e.g. Jesus currently redirecting to commons category via commons:Jesus? Can a commons cat: be established? Nirvana2013 (talk) 14:13, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: We already have this: see . --Redrose64 (talk) 14:49, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes I have used this. The problem arises when using Template:Sister_project_links. Here the link goes through to commons, not commons cat, which they say "are taken from Help:Interwiki linking". Nirvana2013 (talk) 16:40, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  obtains its links from the page name, alternatively from certain parameters, not from any interwikis. When placed on Jesus, by default the commons link will be to commons:Jesus (in what commons refer to as "gallery space"). This link can be disabled, by specifying  - or it may be amended, by using the same parameter but specifying a different value. So, in , you could add . There is no point to this though, because commons:Category:Jesus is presently a soft redirect to commons:Category:Jesus Christ - which is the same page that commons:Jesus redirects to. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:06, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. Nirvana2013 (talk) 17:40, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commons category 

message: I've been puzzled for some time that Special:Log/interwiki does not show changes to the interwiki table like it does on other wikis, even though there is most certainly an interwiki table and there have been changes to it. I looked at Wikipedia:Interwiki hoping I would find something to shed some light on this, but instead I was redirected to this page. Does anyone know what became of the interwiki table log? Cathfolant (talk) 22:37, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki table log 

message: "Pages with their interlanguage links on Wikidata display an "Edit links" button under the language list." If there are no links then the text states "add links". Adding links is much easier than editing; can we add the add link button (link) to articles with edit links one? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:41, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that we can. The difference, as I understand it, depends upon whether or not a Wikidata page exists, regardless of what is on that Wikidata page. So something would need to be done to the Wikidata handler in the MediaWiki software, which we can't alter here, and so it means filing a feature request at bugzilla:. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:33, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I've started a discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Make_adding_interwiki_links_easier. User:Redrose64, perhaps you could repost your comment there. If we can get several people to say it's a good idea, we could send it up to developers, I am sure it would be an easy fix. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:05, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add link 

message: The help page gives a lot of information on how interwiki links used to be generated prior to 2013, but there is almost nothing about how to do it now.
The only info I found is "Pages with their interlanguage links on Wikidata display an "Edit links" button under the language list." Can somebody give me advice how to add an interlanguage link if there is still no language list? For example Czech Wikipedia has the Edit link button even if the list is still empty, but here the button appears only if there have been some languages listed before. Thanks. Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 06:29, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Recently I have the same problem. Now I just add them the old way and wait for a bot to fix it. Agathoclea (talk) 11:13, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki 

message: This page used to have a long section titled "Interlanguage links". In 2010 it was moved to Help:Interlanguage links. I have added a  template to this Talk page to save a record of the move. Now I am going to delete most of that material from the move destination, because it is outdated.  But before doing that I added this notice to keep the history straight, as the old material was created here. – Margin1522 (talk) 11:32, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Interlanguage link" section copied notice  

message: Could somebody drop in at Talk:Sambe#Interwiki? Thanks in advance ☆ Bri (talk) 02:44, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with Korean/English article link 

message: I think that Help:Interwikimedia links should be merged into this article, Help:Interwiki linking. The two articles cover the same topic, and this article appears to have all information that the other one has.
By the way, maybe we should have Help:Linking to sister projects redirect to the merge article?
Please discuss the proposed merge here and not on Help talk:Interwikimedia links or anywhere else. Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 02:21, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: Hi, ; re this revert, I think it doesn't work, because an English-wikipedia article will not have a name given in an completely non-Roman script. Therefore the redlink will be wrong; it will be for an article that will never be created, and will thus never turn blue. Example: . This gives a non-arabic-speaker no clue what the English article should be called, and even an arabic-speaking editor would need to go look up our romanization standards to know. Maybe we need another parameter for the English-article title, if different from the foreign-language title. HLHJ (talk) 20:08, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The  template has options that cover this: . I don't think this help page should try to explain all that the template can do, provided it has a link to the template. Disclaimer: "Halima Muzaffar" is from Google Translate; I know no Arabic. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:06, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Aside:  also provides options to link to Wikidata () and Commons (). -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 00:31, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: That's great, that's the functionality I wanted and did not find. Any clarification that would make subsequent editors more likely to figure it out is good, but obviously not everything can go everywhere. HLHJ (talk) 17:23, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-roman scripts 

message: What rights do a user need to have to add/change/delete the interwiki prefixes? I would like a halopedia: prefix to link to Halopedia, a Halo fan site (https://www.halopedia.org/$1), youtubechannel: to link to a YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/$1), and youtubevideo: to link to a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1). EthanGaming7640 (talk) 16:46, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding and changing interwiki prefixes 

message: Hi, I recently had a student create an interwiki-like link from the section on Wife No. 19 on the Ann Eliza Young page to a scan of the book on Internet Archive. As I'm researching the iarchive interwiki link, it looks like it was made to make it easier to link to sources on Wikisource. Is it appropriate to use in the body of a Wikipedia page? Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 20:40, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  iarchive interwiki links 

message: Following a discussion at Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2022_February_9#Links to imdb that looks like wikilinks and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Film/Archive_79#Masking imdb links as wikilinks  and I have removed all instances to date where interwiki links such as Zengo have been used in Mainspace. The searches for imdbname  and imdbtitle  therefore currently contain no hits. Unfortunately, the documentation on this Help Page implies that such interwiki links are acceptable in the body text of articles, disagreeing with WP:ELPOINTS and leading to WP:EASTEREGGs as when clicked they take readers out of Wikipedia despite looking to most like conventional bluelinks. Note that there are templates  and  that achieve the same outcome and are widely used in the external links section of articles. Please can an expert alter this Help documentation to make it less likely editors will use these links incorrectly? Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:17, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't checked the documentation but I support this message. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:38, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki links to IMDB 

message: The wording should be changed to say that Interlanguage links are deprecated in mainspace, not that they are deprecated everywhere.
Section  marks interlanguage links as deprecated, full stop, but they have a good use which should encouraged, not discouraged, and that is for translators who start their translated articles in Draft space. I have created dozens of articles this way, and it is a huge timesaver to have the manual interlanguage link point to the original (foreign) language Wikipedia article, which makes it show up in the left sidebar/language dropdown list, from where you can quickly find the original. There is evidence of usage of it in the first three languages I tried: de, 
fr, es, and so on. (Some of these are clearly malformed interwiki links which failed to include the leading colon, maybe even most of them; but not all are.) 
There is nothing wrong with this usage, and the guideline should not discourage it.  Mathglot (talk) 02:42, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Old-style interlanguage links are generally not needed any more, but, as WP:LOCALLINK points out, there are situations where they still serve a purpose, even in mainspace. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:40, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interlanguage links not deprecated 

message: You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab) § Special period advertising sister projects.  🌺 Cremastra  (talk) 21:19, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion at [[:Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#Special period advertising sister projects|Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab) §&nbsp;Special period advertising sister projects]]

message: It appears that this guideline is outdated: Commons is linked automatically and shown on the sidebar of the articlr, if it is in wikidata. I am not sure whether the same is valid for other sister projects like wikiquote. - Altenmann >talk 20:32, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Which specific part is outdated? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:12, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry I was not clear: the section about linking to sister project must say that Commons and possibly other sister projects are linked automatically and adding templates like {commonscat} is no longer necessary. Instead, people must update wikidata. I am raising the issue because recently I see a flurry of wikignomes adding unnecesary {commonscat} template into articles on my watchlist. - Altenmann >talk 00:39, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Most of the page is about making links such as commons:category:Wikimedia, not about  and similar boxes. There are also times when Wikidata is incapable of producing an appropriate link, see for example the two  at AEC Renown#External links. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:48, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linking Commons