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{{hatnote|For information not specific to Wikimedia wikis, see [[mw:Manual:Interwiki]] and [[mw:Help:Interwiki linking]]}}
By adding a prefix to another [[Wikimedia projects|project]], internal link style ("prefixed internal link style") can be used to [[Help:Link|link]] to a page of another project. A system of shorthand link labels are used to refer to different projects, in the context of interproject linking, as seen within the actual source text. For example, <code>en:</code> refers to the English Wikipedia. This is seen in <code><nowiki>[[:en:Apple]]</nowiki></code>, which produces [[:en:Apple]], a link to the English Wikipedia article on "Apple".
This is called "interwiki linking". The precise interwiki links used vary slightly for each project, and can be seen at [[Special:Interwiki]].
== Interwiki linking from and within Wikimedia ==
Within [[m:Wikimedia|Wikimedia]], for the purpose of
Most of the time, interwiki links are handled by [[Wikidata]] instead, but the manual interwiki link syntax still works and is useful in edge cases.
=== Project titles and shortcuts ===
This list is incomplete. See [[Special:Interwiki]] for a full list of valid interwiki links.
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The [[m:Interwiki map|interwiki map]] on Meta lists many prefixes, among others, <tt><nowiki>[[wikipedia:]]</nowiki></tt> for the English Wikipedia, working from any Wiki supporting the Meta interwiki map
The shortcuts
Non-Wikimedia interwiki codes have a limitation, that they can only be used through a link. For example, the entry for "[[wikt:John|John]]" on Wiktionary, a Wikimedia project, can be accessed by <tt><nowiki>[[wikt:John]]</nowiki></tt> or http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/wikt:John. However, the latter method does not work for non-Wikimedia wikis. For example, the main page on the Mozilla Wiki can be accessed via <tt><nowiki>[[MozillaWiki:Main Page]]</nowiki></tt>, but http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MozillaWiki:Main_Page results in an error. In these cases, Special:Search can be used (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/MozillaWiki:Main_Page). You can see [[m:Special:Interwiki|the Interwiki special page]] for a list of "forward" and "non-forward" prefixes.
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== Technical ==
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* on en: [[:de:Zug]], [[:fr:Train]]
* on fr: [[:de:Zug]], [[:en:Train]]
=== In-page interlanguage links ===
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