Interwiki links Wikipedia:Namespace

wikimedia inter-language or interwiki prefixes not define namespaces, point pages in other wikimedia projects, outside en.wikipedia.org website. mentioned here because use namespace-like prefix technique linking. default, unless combined in-project namespace prefix, link main namespace of related project. examples of such prefixes include m: (or meta:) meta, mw: mediawiki, wikt: wiktionary, fr: french wikipedia, de: german wikipedia, etc.

for example, m:meta:babel , meta:meta:babel both link babel page in project namespace (second prefix) of meta-wiki project (first prefix). example: wikt:fr:discuter:pied/fusion daf links pied/fusion daf page in talk namespace (3rd prefix) of french (2nd prefix) wiktionary (1st prefix). when making links other language wikipedias, remember add initial colon if link intended appear inline.

interwiki prefixes not wikimedia projects. example, dictionary: interwiki link dict.org (the dict development group). complete list of interwiki prefixes, see interwiki map , interwiki table.

as aliases, not possible create page title beginning interwiki or interlanguage prefix. includes prefixes w: , en:, used in other projects refer english wikipedia.

it not possible create redirects interwiki pages.