Tesseract:Interwiki links
Interwiki links are a special type of link used to link to other sites and wikis without having to type the full web address. This saves on storage space and makes updates easier when websites move or are translated into other languages.
External sites[edit source]
Wikimedia projects[edit source]
This wiki and it's related wikis are built on MediaWiki, a wiki engine developed for and used by Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The MediaWiki Meta-Wiki is included for linking to documentation about editing articles and to details about its various extensions. Links to Wikipedia and Wiktionary are for use in references and trivia where applicable and their use should be avoided elsewhere.
| Prefix | Website | Example | Result | Case-sensitive | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MediaWiki Software Meta-Wiki | mw | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ | [[mw:Extension:Variables|How to use <nowiki>{{#var:}}</nowiki>]] |
How to use {{#var:}} | no |
| Wikipedia | wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ | [[wikipedia:Marvel Cinematic Universe|''Marvel Cinematic Universe'' on Wikipedia]] |
Marvel Cinematic Universe on Wikipedia | no |
| Wiktionary | wiktionary | https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ | [[wiktionary:Marvel#German|Marvel]] |
Marvel, from Marvel | no |
Other sites[edit source]
These websites are part of the standard MediaWiki configuration. Their use on this wiki is discouraged and may be disabled in the future.
| Prefix | Purpose | |
|---|---|---|
| PubMed | pmid | Links to citations for biomedical literature |
| RFC catalogue | rfc | Links to Request for Comments memorandums from the IETF |