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Wikimedia sister projects are all the publicly availablewikis operated by theWikimedia Foundation, includingWikipedia. 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.
Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by theWikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteerprojects:
The above list of the current English language sister projects can be easily duplicated using the{{Wikipedia's sister projects}} template.
Wikipedia encourageslinks from Wikipedia articles to pages on sister projects when such links are likely to be useful to our readers, andinterlingual 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 ofimages that are stored on the Wikimedia Commons site (seeWikipedia:Wikimedia Commons).
For example:
Links to sister projects are made in several ways:
[[Wikisource:The Wind in the Willows|''The Wind in the Willows'']]);[[sister-project:sister project name|display name]].Sister project links generally appear in theExternal links section (or the last section, whatever it is), rather than the body of the article.Wiktionary andWikisource may be linkedinline (e.g. to an unusual word or the text of a document being discussed).
Appropriate material fromWikimedia Commons may also be included within the main body of an article. SeeEmbedding Commons' media in Wikipedia articles. Links toWikinews should not be made within the main body of an article, being made only as per theexternal links guideline.
Most box-type templates such as{{Commons}} shown at right should be put at the beginning of thelast 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.[a] 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 toWikimedia Foundation at Wikimedia CommonsAnother alternative to box-type templates in the body of the article is a{{Sister bar}} navbox at the end of the article. The sister links can be combined with portal links using{{Subject bar}}.
Sister project links are normally made only once within an article, as withstandard links to other Wikipedia articles.
YDo: Put large graphical templates such as{{Commons}} or{{Sister project links}} at the top of the last ==Section== of the article, even if that section is not a typical place for these templates.YDo: Use inline templates such as{{Commons-inline}} large graphical templates in the ==External links== section instead of large graphical templates.
NDon't: Create an ==External links== section heading if that section will only contain one or morenon-inline sister templates, such as{{Commons}},{{Sister project links}}, or the{{Sister bar}} navbox. Instead, place the templates in an existing section, or switch to inline templates.{{Wiktionary}} often appears near the top ofdisambiguation pages and a{{wikisource}} template might appear to the right of aTOC if an article is about a treaty to which Wikisource has the original text.Sometimes an entry is more appropriate on some othersister project than on Wikipedia because they are of a non-encyclopedic scope (e.g. they can never be expanded beyond a simpledictionary definition, or call for a level of detail more appropriate to atextbook). Normally, such articles are copied to the more appropriate sister using thetranswiki process, and deleted from Wikipedia afterwards.
However, if a word or phrase is commonly wikified, it is quite likely that the deleted entry will be quickly re-created again by well-meaning users. The re-created article is likely to again become non-encyclopedic.
To avoid this, do seek deletion of the page (or suppress after transwiki'ing). One solution, as suggested byWikipedia deletion policy, is to insteadnormally redirect the word to a relevant article within Wikipedia. For instance,Organize could redirect to a well-developedOrganization article via#REDIRECT [[Organization]].
If this is not possible, turn a Wikipedia page into asoft redirect to a sister project. The plain{{soft redirect}} template shouldnot be used in the mainspace. Instead, use one of thespecialized templates (seebelow). These templates inform readers of information on the sister project: in the case of this example, one link would be provided to thewikt:organize page. This has multiple benefits:
| Wikipedia does not have an article on "wikimedia sister projects", but its sister projectWiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "Organize" You can also:
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Please keep in mind that only topics with aless-than-encyclopedic scope that arecommonly wikified words or that arerepeatedly recreated should become soft redirects. We don't need a soft redirect for every possible word or phrase to be included in Wikipedia.
Mainspace exclusive
| Project | Long form | Shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | [[wikipedia:]] | [[w:]] |
| Wiktionary | [[wiktionary:]] | [[wikt:]] |
| Wikinews | [[wikinews:]] | [[n:]] |
| Wikibooks | [[wikibooks:]] | [[b:]] |
| Wikiquote | [[wikiquote:]] | [[q:]] |
| Wikisource | [[wikisource:]] | [[s:]] |
| Wikispecies | [[wikispecies:]] | [[species:]] |
| Wikiversity | [[wikiversity:]] | [[v:]] |
| Wikivoyage | [[wikivoyage:]] | [[voy:]] |
| Wikimedia Foundation | [[wikimedia:]] | [[wmf:]] |
| Wikimedia Commons | [[commons:]] | [[c:]] |
| Wikidata | [[wikidata:]] | [[d:]] |
| Wikifunctions | [[wikifunctions:]] | [[f:]] |
| Meta-Wiki | [[meta:]] | [[m:]] |
| Wikimedia Incubator | [[incubator:]] | — |
| MediaWiki | [[mediawikiwiki:]] | [[mw:]] |
| Phabricator | [[phabricator:]] | [[phab:]] |
Unified login is a mechanism which allows users to use a single login across the majority of theWikimedia Foundation's sister projects. This allows users to maintain a consistent identity throughout Wikimedia, following a single sign-up. Other advantages of this mechanism include the removal of the threat that impersonation poses and the ability to visit many projects without having to go through the labors of logging in everywhere. Users can create a unified login by visitingSpecial:MergeAccount on a project where they already have an account, and following the prompts.
Yes, you can copy parts of one sister project into another, butyou must link to the source article in your edit summary. The exact edit summary and attribution required depends on how the sister project was licensed, seeWP:SISTERCOPY for more detailed instructions. If the material is translated from another language, seeWP:TFOLWP for instructions.
