Editing Help:Link (section)

== Interwiki links ==

{{See also|Help:Interwiki linking|meta:Help:Interwiki linking|Help:Interlanguage links}}

An [[Help:Interwiki linking|interwiki link]] links to a page on another Wikimedia project website, such as [[Meta-Wiki|Meta]] or another language Wikipedia. The target site must be on the [[m:Interwiki map|interwiki map]] specified for the source wiki. These links have the same <nowiki>[[...]]</nowiki> syntax as wikilinks (see previously), but take a prefix ":x:" which specifies the target site.

For example, <code><nowiki>[[m:Help:Link]]</nowiki></code> links to the "Help:Link" page on Meta, while <code><nowiki>[[:commons:Athens]]</nowiki></code> links to page "Athens" on [[Wikimedia Commons]] as: [[:commons:Athens]].

Interwiki links can be piped, just as with wikilinks. Remember that an [[Help:Interlanguage links|interlanguage link]] should be preceded by a colon if it is to be displayed, where it is inserted in the text, as an [[Help:Interlanguage links#Inline links (links in the text of the article)|inline interlanguage link]]; otherwise it will be displayed in the list of interlanguage links at the side of the page (which is appropriate only if it is the most closely corresponding page in the other language Wikipedia). Thus (incorporating the [[Help:Link#Pipe_trick|pipe trick]]), <code><nowiki>[[:ja:Wikilink|]]</nowiki></code> would be used to link to Wikilink on Japanese Wikipedia. Example: (<code><nowiki>[[:ja:URL|]]</nowiki></code> links to [[:ja:URL|URL]] on Japanese Wikipedia).

Interwiki links (like external links) are displayed in a slightly paler blue than ordinary wikilinks. The [[MediaWiki]] page formatting does not detect whether these target pages exist, so they are never displayed in red.