Help:Interwiki

The Interwiki extension introduces interwiki links to MediaWiki, allowing the usage of prefixes in internal links to link to websites outside your wiki. The extension is pre-installed with MediaWiki, i.e. you do not need to manually enable it.

How to use
Note: If you are using the Citizen skin, you will see the external link icon after both external and interwiki links; users of other skins should see interwiki links without the external link icon ([ see example in Vector]). You can remove the external link icon from interwiki links by putting .mw-parser-output a.extiw:after { display: none !important; } in your citizen.css user subpage (changes your own viewing experience) or your wiki's MediaWiki:Citizen.css (affects everyone in your wiki).

In the above example, w is assigned to link to English Wikipedia. You can find the full list of interwiki prefixes on the Special:Interwiki special page on each wiki.

Linking to other WikiTide wikis
Linking between WikiTide wikis can be done with [ [wt:subdomain:pagename]], which brings you to the pagename page on subdomain.wikitide.com, e.g.  wt:meta:Help:Interwiki  will link to this page (Help:Interwiki) on WikiTide Meta (meta.wikitide.com) from other WikiTide wikis.

Scary transclusion
Scary transclusion is enabled if the  option is enabled on the interwiki table while $wgEnableScaryTranscluding is enabled (in Special:ManageWiki/settings).

Managing interwiki entries
By default, bureaucrats of WikiTide wikis can manage their wiki's interwiki table via the Special:Interwiki page, where they will see an additional link: "Special:Interwiki/add", along with edit and delete links on the "" table. This section will guide you through the setup for interwiki entires.

Before you move on
You should check the following before adding a link to your interwiki table:
 * Does your preferred prefix overlap with a global prefix? : Please check the "" table to see if a prefix is already taken by a global prefix. It is generally understandable for non-English wikis to overwrite prefixes that point to English Wikipedia (i.e. w:, wp: and wikipedia:) with other language versions of Wikipedia for convenience, but prefixes pointing to other WikiTide subdomains (e.g. m:</tt>, wt</tt> and meta</tt>) should never be overridden.
 * Does your preferred prefix overlap with an existing local prefix? : If so, you will have to choose another prefix as interwiki prefixes must be unique.
 * Is your preferred prefix inappropriate? : Never use prefixes that contain sexual content, profanity, discrimination or any other inappropriate content. Content violating the Content Policy or Terms of Use may be removed, and sanctions may be placed on users introducing such content.
 * Is the destination URL safe and live?
 * Please make sure the URL you are redirecting to does not resolve into malicious links. Failure to do so and adding a malicious link will result in removal of permissions. Tools to assist checking include URLVoid, VirusTotal, Google Transparency Report.

Using the interface
There are six fields in the Special:Interwiki/add and edit interfaces.
 *  Input the preferred prefix without the colon .
 * : Links with this prefix will be redirected to the target URL if checked, e.g.  https://meta.wikitide.com/wiki/w:Help:Interwiki </tt> will redirect you to  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Interwiki </tt>; a "" error will be given if trying to navigate with the same link but with this box unchecked.
 * : Allows scary transclusion if $wgEnableScaryTranscluding is also enabled (in Special:ManageWiki/settings). This means you can transclude a page or template from another wiki with this option enabled via { {prefix:templatename}}</tt>. For example if w</tt> has transclusion enabled, { {w:1x}}</tt> will transclude w:Template:1x; to transclude pages outside the Template: namespace, put an extra colon after the prefix, e.g. { {w::Article}}</tt> will transclude Article, and { {w::Help:Interwiki}}</tt> will transclude w:Help:Interwiki.
 *  Input the URL of the target website. The URL should contain a dynamic variable for the destination page name formatted as $1</tt>, e.g.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1 </tt>. It also should not include trailing spaces – ensure that you are not copying any extra spaces when adding the interwiki prefix.
 *  This field should generally be left blank.
 *  (Optional) The reason for adding the interwiki prefix, used for logging.