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'''Interwiki linking''' canare belinks ato pages across different [[Wikimedia projects]] or language editions, and may linkpoint to ''another project'', to ''another language'', andor both (e.g., toa ''anotherdifferent project in anothera different language'').

* '''Interproject links:''' By adding a prefix to another [[Wikimedia Foundation#Wikimedia projects|Wikimedia project]], internal link style ("prefixed internal link style") can be used to [[Help:Link|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. {{pb

:}} For example, to link from here to the "surfeit" article on Wiktionary, you have to includeutilise thean interwiki link. <code><nowiki>[[wikt:surfeit]]</nowiki></code> which would appearappears as [[wikt:surfeit]], orand the interwiki link <code><nowiki>[[wikt:surfeit|surfeit]]</nowiki></code> which would appearappears as [[wikt:surfeit|surfeit]].

* '''[[Help:Interlanguage links|Interlanguage links]]:''' These are interwiki links linking different language editions of the same project. Wikimedia Projects with different language editions are: <ul style="columns: 2 15em;"><!--

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The applicable CSS classes are "extiw" and "external text". The choice may be governed by this, either way, for uniformity or distinction. An interwiki link is easier to type by itself, but if one goes to the webpage anyways, before putting the link, copying the URL is very convenient. When a template is created, e.g. {{tiw|IMDb title}}, the template can be made, such that it uses an interwiki link and a parameter, like "tt0389790" or "0389790", or that it uses an external link and a parameter like one of those or the full url, if that is more convenient.

== [https://sushiiwill.com Interwiki] links to the same wiki versus internal links ==

Disadvantages of interwiki links to the same wiki, compared to internal links:

* no existence detection

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