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Note that the pipe trick discussed above won't work as well on interwiki links because there are too many preceding colons. A pipe trick does this to an interwiki link: [[w:c:bionic:Jaime Sommers (2007)|c:bionic:Jaime Sommers]], which is close, but not really close enough. Thus, to make a "clean" link to an article on another link, one has to type out the whole thing, with replacement text, as shown immediately above. | Note that the pipe trick discussed above won't work as well on interwiki links because there are too many preceding colons. A pipe trick does this to an interwiki link: [[w:c:bionic:Jaime Sommers (2007)|c:bionic:Jaime Sommers]], which is close, but not really close enough. Thus, to make a "clean" link to an article on another link, one has to type out the whole thing, with replacement text, as shown immediately above. | ||
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The real trick in performing interwiki links is knowing what is the true name of the | 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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[[w:c:tardis:Matt Smith|Matt Smith]] | [[w:c:tardis:Matt Smith|Matt Smith]] | ||
