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Currently, we have the ability to link to the following languages: French (fr), Russian (ru), Bulgarian (bg), German (de) and Dutch (nl). Note that there must be a corresponding article on the target website for the link to be created successfully. Since use of this particular kind of interwiki link ''always'' produces a blue link, care must be exercised in its use, especially because it is not likely that an article on a non-English wiki will have the exact same name as its English counterpart. For instance, there are currently no pages at [[TARDIS]] for the Bulgarian, German, and Dutch wikia; typing <nowiki>[[bg:TARDIS]]</nowiki> links to a create page. Multilingual editors will be required to make these kind of links most successfully. | Currently, we have the ability to link to the following languages: French (fr), Russian (ru), Bulgarian (bg), German (de) and Dutch (nl). Note that there must be a corresponding article on the target website for the link to be created successfully. Since use of this particular kind of interwiki link ''always'' produces a blue link, care must be exercised in its use, especially because it is not likely that an article on a non-English wiki will have the exact same name as its English counterpart. For instance, there are currently no pages at [[TARDIS]] for the Bulgarian, German, and Dutch wikia; typing <nowiki>[[bg:TARDIS]]</nowiki> links to a create page. Multilingual editors will be required to make these kind of links most successfully. | ||
====How to figure out the name of a wiki==== | ====How to figure out the name of a wiki==== | ||
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The real trick in performing interwiki links is knowing what is the true name of the wiki to which one is linking. For instance, we call ourselves "TARDIS Index File Wiki", but our ''true'' name is "tardis". Links to our article about Matt Smith from other wikias would be: | The real trick in performing interwiki links is knowing what is the true name of the wiki to which one is linking. For instance, we call ourselves "TARDIS Index File Wiki", but our ''true'' name is "tardis". Links to our article about Matt Smith from other wikias would be: | ||
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Unfortunately, this isn't completely universal. Depending on the wiki's relationship to the wikia family of wikis, it might not be so straightforward. A prime example is [[w:c:memoryalpha:Main Page|Memory Alpha, the main Star Trek Wiki]]. The actual URL of its ''Doctor Who'' page is: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Doctor_Who. This is immediately confusing, because there's no reference to wikia at all in the URL. However, linkage to this page can still be achieved within an article here at this wiki. It is accomplished by [[w:c:memoryalpha:Doctor Who]]. In cases where the wiki URLs don't have the "wikia.com", you will have to search through that wiki's help files to find an article that tells you how to perform an interwiki link. Or you might have to ask an admin there for help. You can also try consulting [[Wikia:Help:Interwiki link|the Interwiki link page at Wikia Central]]. | Unfortunately, this isn't completely universal. Depending on the wiki's relationship to the wikia family of wikis, it might not be so straightforward. A prime example is [[w:c:memoryalpha:Main Page|Memory Alpha, the main Star Trek Wiki]]. The actual URL of its ''Doctor Who'' page is: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Doctor_Who. This is immediately confusing, because there's no reference to wikia at all in the URL. However, linkage to this page can still be achieved within an article here at this wiki. It is accomplished by [[w:c:memoryalpha:Doctor Who]]. In cases where the wiki URLs don't have the "wikia.com", you will have to search through that wiki's help files to find an article that tells you how to perform an interwiki link. Or you might have to ask an admin there for help. You can also try consulting [[Wikia:Help:Interwiki link|the Interwiki link page at Wikia Central]]. | ||
====Even easier linking to "big" wikis==== | ====Even easier linking to "big" wikis==== | ||
Some bigger wikis are even easier to link to. For some wikis, linkage is exactly like Wikipedia linkage. | Some bigger wikis are even easier to link to. For some wikis, linkage is exactly like Wikipedia linkage. | ||