Template:Link

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This template creates a link to a page on some site, whose address is hardcoded in the MediaWiki software.

Usage

The template accepts two unnamed parameters:

1. Name of the article, default value: Article.
2. Prefix (code name of the site), one of the listed in the second table (see below), default value: wikipedia.

code	result	the link points to
{{link|foo|wikt}}	foo	https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foo
{{link|Foo|wikipedia}}	Foo	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo
{{link|Foo}}	Foo	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo
{{link}}	Article	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article

The first parameter is Foo

prefix	result	the link points to
acronym	Foo	https://www.acronymfinder.com/~/search/af.aspx?string=exact&Acronym=Foo
advogato	Foo	http://www.advogato.org/Foo
arxiv	Foo	https://www.arxiv.org/abs/Foo
c2find	Foo	http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FindPage&value=Foo
cache	Foo	https://www.google.com/search?q=cache:Foo
commons	Foo	https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Foo
dictionary	Foo	http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Database=*&Form=Dict1&Strategy=*&Query=Foo
doi	Foo	https://dx.doi.org/Foo
drumcorpswiki	Foo	http://www.drumcorpswiki.com/Foo
dwjwiki	Foo	http://www.suberic.net/cgi-bin/dwj/wiki.cgi?Foo
elibre	Foo	http://enciclopedia.us.es/index.php/Foo
emacswiki	Foo	https://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Foo
foldoc	Foo	https://foldoc.org/?Foo
foxwiki	Foo	https://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~Foo
google	Foo	https://www.google.com/search?q=Foo
googlegroups	Foo	https://groups.google.com/groups?q=Foo
hammondwiki	Foo	http://www.dairiki.org/HammondWiki/Foo
hrwiki	Foo	http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Foo
linuxwiki	Foo	http://linuxwiki.de/Foo
lojban	Foo	https://mw.lojban.org/papri/Foo
lqwiki	Foo	http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Foo
meatball	Foo	http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?Foo
mw	Foo	https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Foo
metawikimedia	Foo	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Foo
mozillawiki	Foo	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Foo
mediawikiwiki	Foo	https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Foo
oeis	Foo	https://oeis.org/Foo
pmid	Foo	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/Foo?dopt=Abstract
pythoninfo	Foo	https://wiki.python.org/moin/Foo
rfc	Foo	https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfcFoo
s23wiki	Foo	http://s23.org/wiki/Foo
senseislibrary	Foo	https://senseis.xmp.net/?Foo
squeak	Foo	http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/Foo
theopedia	Foo	https://www.theopedia.com/Foo
tmbw	Foo	http://www.tmbw.net/wiki/Foo
tmnet	Foo	http://www.technomanifestos.net/?Foo
twiki	Foo	http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Foo
uncyclopedia	Foo	https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Foo
unreal	Foo	https://wiki.beyondunreal.com/Foo
usemod	Foo	http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Foo
wikia	Foo	http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Foo
wikibooks	Foo	https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Foo
wikidata	Foo	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Foo
wikif1	Foo	http://www.wikif1.org/Foo
wikihow	Foo	https://www.wikihow.com/Foo
wikimedia	Foo	https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Foo
wikinews	Foo	https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Foo
wikinfo	Foo	http://wikinfo.co/English/index.php/Foo
wikipedia	Foo	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo
wikiquote	Foo	https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Foo
wikisource	Foo	https://wikisource.org/wiki/Foo
wikispecies	Foo	https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Foo
wikiversity	Foo	https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Foo
wikivoyage	Foo	https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Foo
wiktionary	Foo	https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Foo
wikt	Foo	https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Foo

Notes

• Do not try to use this template with second parameter but with an empty first one: {{link||wikiquote}}. It would not work!
• If you want to display on the page another word then the one used in the link, just write a wiki-link without this template: [[wikipedia:Foo|bar]] (result: bar).
• If you want to create a link to non-English Wikipedia (or another wiki of the Wikimedia Foundation having many language sections), add its language code before the first parameter or after the second one, with a colon.

Examples:

code	result	comment
{{link|de:Artikel}}	de:Artikel	The language code is displayed on the page.
{{link|Artikel|wikipedia:de}}	Artikel	The language code is not displayed on the page.

(The address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Artikel redirects to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artikel.)

• The created link looks like an internal link. If you want the link to look as an external, just write an external link.

Compare:

code	result
{{link|Foo}}	Foo
[[wikipedia:Foo|Foo]]	Foo
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo Foo]	Foo

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