An interwiki link links a page to a page on another website. Unlike the name suggests, the target site need not be a wiki. These are in the same form as wikilinks, but takes a prefix which specifies the target site. The prefix can be hidden using the same piped syntax as wikilinks.
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== [[Special:Interwiki|InterWikiMap]] ==
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Usage: <nowiki>[[interwikilink:page]]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[[interwikilink:page|name of link]]</nowiki>
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=== Call for Helpers ===
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For people who are interested in linking the wiki world in AboutUs by maintaining the InterWiki table, let a [[Administrators|System Administrator]] know you are interested in helping.
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Example: <nowiki>[[Google:AboutUs]]</nowiki> = [[Google:AboutUs]] or <nowiki>[[Google:AboutUs|Google search for AboutUs]]</nowiki> = [[Google:AboutUs|Google search for AboutUs]]
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=== Please make suggestions ===
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Please make suggestions here, (if you are a wiki, please simply add it to your [[WikiIndex.org]] or [[:Category:WikiIndex]] page).
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From a developer's view, interwiki links can be easily added using the instructions on [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Interwiki MediaWiki].
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==What is an link?==
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What made the internet possible is that Tim Berners-Lee figured out how pages could link to each other using a web browser. That code looks like <nowiki>http://www.aboutus.org</nowiki>. One of the wonderful things about [[WikiWiki|wiki]] is that internal linking, links to pages within a wiki, is simple. See [[WikiLink]] for information on how to do that. The really cool think about a lot of wikis is that you easily link to each other by InterWiki links, preferably by [[BiLinks]].
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==Current interwiki map==
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See [[MeatballWiki]] the one to maintain an [[InterWikiMap]]
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==Tip for InterWiki linking==
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| AbbeNormal || http://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?$1
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If you want to display the name of your InterWiki link without the name of the wiki preceding it, use the pipe character with nothing after it.
Example: <nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia]]</nowiki> would display [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia]], but <nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia|]]</nowiki> will display: [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]].
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== Alternative ==
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Alternatively, what about doing Interwiki links for all of these? I've set up FortWiki in our interwiki database. Even though I know the people at Fort Wiki already know how to do it (since John's the one who taught me), let me give an example for any community member wanting to learn: [[FortWiki:Fort]] goes to the [[Fort]] page on www.fortwiki.com. Naturally, you can magic pipe if you like so that [[FortWiki:Fort|fort]] just shows the word "fort".
For people who are interested in linking the wiki world in AboutUs by maintaining the InterWiki table, let a System Administrator know you are interested in helping.
What made the internet possible is that Tim Berners-Lee figured out how pages could link to each other using a web browser. That code looks like http://www.aboutus.org. One of the wonderful things about wiki is that internal linking, links to pages within a wiki, is simple. See WikiLink for information on how to do that. The really cool think about a lot of wikis is that you easily link to each other by InterWiki links, preferably by BiLinks.
If you want to display the name of your InterWiki link without the name of the wiki preceding it, use the pipe character with nothing after it.
Examples
Example: [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia]] would display Wikipedia:Wikipedia, but [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia|]] will display: Wikipedia.
Alternative
Alternatively, what about doing Interwiki links for all of these? I've set up FortWiki in our interwiki database. Even though I know the people at Fort Wiki already know how to do it (since John's the one who taught me), let me give an example for any community member wanting to learn: FortWiki:Fort goes to the Fort page on www.fortwiki.com. Naturally, you can magic pipe if you like so that fort just shows the word "fort".
