Scratchpad:Wikimedia Foundation project titles and shortcuts

Wikimedia Foundation project titles and shortcuts

The table below, and the discussion following, are adapted from m:Help:Interwiki linking

Some of the long forms don't work as expected within the same project; for example   doesn't work on Meta, while    does. This depends on the configuration of the wiki and where the names are stored (see also next paragraph). The shortcuts work everywhere. (That is the intention; currently (16-Jan-2007), it does not work on all projects.)

The interwiki map on Meta lists many prefixes, among others,    for the English Wikipedia, working from any Wiki supporting the Meta interwiki map, not only from MediaWiki wikis. Some prefixes work only with a page, for example: wikipedia:wikipedia: (fails) vs. wikipedia:wikipedia:Interwikimedia link (works). These prefixes are case insensitive.

Non-Wikimedia interwiki codes have a limitation, that they can only be used through a link. For example, the entry for "John" on Wiktionary, a Wikimedia project, can be accessed by  John  or http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/wikt:John. However, the latter method does not work for non-Wikimedia wikis. For example, the main page on the Mozilla Wiki can be accessed via  Main Page , but http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MozillaWiki:Main_Page results in an error.