Wiktionary:Sister projects

Wiktionary is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit foundation registered in Florida, USA. Wikimedia operates several other multilingual and open-content sister wiki projects:

Wikipedia
The free encyclopedia

Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals

Wikinews
Free-content news

Wikisource
The free library

Wikispecies
Directory of species

Wikiquote
Collection of quotations

Commons
Shared media repository

Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia project coordination

Wikiversity
Free learning tools

Wikivoyage
Travel information

Wikidata
The free knowledge base

These templates are designed to provide article-to-article linking between Meta-Wiki and its Wikimedia sister projects.

This page is about coordination in the names and parameter uses in all of this kind of Wikimedia templates.

Wikiquote

Pages needing to be moved:

• Template:Move to Wikiquote

Links to pages to the Wikiquote site:

• Template:wikiquote (uses PAGENAME)

Wikiquote

Template	What it makes	Where it goes
{{Move to Wikiquote}} Edit Talk Links		Top of article.
{{wikiquote}} Edit Talk Links	Wikiquote	Bottom of article (typically in External links).
Bottom of article (typically in External links).

Wikipedia

Pages needing to be moved:

• Template:Move to Wikipedia

Links to pages on the Wikipedia site:

• Box format
  • Template:wikipedia (uses PAGENAME and generates a search rather than linking directly to a page — because Wiktionary article titles are fully case sensitive, this may not yield the desired result). May also use a parameter, as in {{wikipedia|SomePage}})

Template	What it makes	Where it goes
{{Move to Wikipedia}} Edit Talk Links	This page is a candidate to be moved to Wikipedia. This article appears to be an encyclopedia entry, not a dictionary definition. Wiktionary is not an encyclopedia, but Wikipedia is. Please verify that this article meets the Wikipedia criteria for inclusion.	Top of article.
{{wikipedia}} Edit Talk Links	Wikipedia	{{wikipedia}} Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links) Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic search. Does not link directly to pages. May take a parameter, as outlined above, for a manual link direct to specific articles.

Wikibooks

Links to pages to the Wikibooks site:

• Template:wikibooks

{{wikibooks}} Edit Talk Links

Wikibooks

{{wikibooks}} Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links) Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic link.

Wikisource

Pages needing to be moved:

• Template:Move to Wikisource

Links to pages to the Wikisource site:

• Template:wikisource (uses PAGENAME)
• Template:wikisource1911Enc (requires parameter as in {{Wikisource1911Enc|1911 Encyclopedia Article}})

Template	What it makes	Usage
{{Move to Wikisource}} Edit Talk Links		{{Move to Wikisource}} Placed at top of article Uses {{PAGENAME}} for automatic link.
{{wikisource}} Edit Talk Links	Wikisource
{{wikisource1911Enc}} Edit Talk Links		{{wikisource1911Enc|Insert title here}} Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links) Supply the name of the 1911 Encyclopedia article for manual link.

Wikimedia Commons

Template	What it makes	Usage
{{commons}} Edit Talk Links		{{commons|insert media page title here}} Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links) Uses parameter {{PAGENAME}} for linking to the same name Commons page.
{{commonscat}} Edit Talk Links		{{commonscat|Insert category name here}} Bottom of article (typically in External links).

Wikinews

Moving pages to Wikinews is not possible, for legal reasons. (Copying material to Wikinews would put it into the public domain, which violates the GFDL.)

Links to pages on the Wikinews site:

• Box format
  • Template:wikinews (uses a parameter as in {{wikinews|SomeArticleTitle}})
• To link in-line with other text, create an interwiki link in the format: [[wikinews:SomeArticleTitle|reference to the Wikinews article]].

Template	What it makes	Where it goes
{{wikinews}} Edit Talk Links		Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links) Uses {{PAGENAME}} for linking to the same name Wikinews page.

All Wikimedia Sister projects only in box

Links to pages on all Wikimedia Sister projects using a single box:

{{sisterlinks}} Edit Talk Links

{{sisterlinks|Page name here}} Placed at bottom of article (typically in External links) Needs manual parameter