wikimedia Sister Projects

This page documents an English Wikipedia style guideline. It is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though occasional exceptions may apply. Any substantive edit to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page.

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This guideline covers Wikipedia's relations to the sister projects, including linking and copying content between a Wikipedia article and a sister project's article.

Wiki is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wiki Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects:

The above list of the current English language sister projects can be easily duplicated using the {{Wikipedia's sister projects}} template.

Wiki encourages links from Wikipedia articles to pages on sister projects when such links are likely to be useful to our readers, and interlingual crosslinking to articles on foreign-language editions of Wikipedia whenever such links are possible.

By far the most common use of links to the non-Wikipedia sister projects is the use of images that are stored on the Wiki Commons site (see Wikipedia:Wiki Commons).

For example:

 

Wikisource has original text related to this article:

The Wind in the Willows

Links to sister projects are made in several ways:

• by linking images and other files hosted by Commons. See Wiki: Picture tutorial for more;
• through inline links such as this link to The Wind in the Willows ([[wikisource:The Wind in the Willows|''The Wind in the Willows'']]);
• through templates, which may produce either larger boxes or simpler one-line links. See the next section for how and where to place them; Templates are found in Wiki: Template messages/Sister projects and Category:Interwiki link templates;
• through standard links directly to the URL, exactly like any other website, such as The Wind in the Willows. However this form is deprecated in favour of links using [[sister-project:sister project name|display name]].

Sister project links should generally appear in the "External links" section, or where appropriate in citations. Two exceptions are links to Wiktionary and Wikisource that may be linked inline (e.g. to an unusual word or the text of a document being discussed).

Appropriate material from Wiki Commons may also be included within the main body of an article. See Embedding Commons' media in Wikipedia articles. Links to Wikinews should not be made within the main body of an article, being made only as per the external links guideline.

 

Wiki Commons has media related to Wiki logos.

 

Most box-type templates such as {{Commons}} shown at right should be put at the beginning of the last section of the article (which is usually, but not necessarily, the "External links" section) so that boxes will appear next to, rather than below, the list items. Do not make a section whose sole content is box-type templates. Many box links can be unified to one by using {{Sister project links}} or {{Sister project}}.

Sometimes box-type templates are not aesthetically pleasing, either because there are no external links except sister project ones, or because they result in an odd layout, such as a long sequence of right-aligned boxes hanging off the bottom of the article or excessive white space when the section is laid out in columns. In such cases, consider using "inline" templates, such as {{Commons-inline}}, in the "External links" section, so that links to sister projects appear as list items, like this:

•   Media related to Wiki Foundation at Wiki Commons

Sister project links are normally made only once within an article, as with standard links to other Wikipedia articles.

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