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(not every wiki has that interwiki set up)
(mediawikiwiki has been included since 1.10, and these pages are usually imported into ''new'' wikis anyway)
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| www.mediawiki.org
 
| www.mediawiki.org
 
| [[{{{1}}}|{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]]
 
| [[{{{1}}}|{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]]
| [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/{{urlencode:{{{1}}}}} {{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]
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| [[mediawikiwiki:{{{1}}}|{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]]
 
}}<noinclude>
 
}}<noinclude>
 
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This template links to a page on from the [[Help:Contents|Help pages]]. The template has two parameters:
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This template links to a page on mediawiki.org from the [[Help:Contents|Help pages]]. The template has two parameters:
 
# Pagename, optionally preceded by an interwiki link prefix valid on mediawiki.org
 
# Pagename, optionally preceded by an interwiki link prefix valid on mediawiki.org
 
# (optional) Link description
 
# (optional) Link description
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| www.mediawiki.org
 
| www.mediawiki.org
 
| This is so that the public domain help pages - which can be freely copied and included in other sites - have correct links to Mediawiki:
 
| This is so that the public domain help pages - which can be freely copied and included in other sites - have correct links to Mediawiki:
* on external sites, it creates an external link
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* on external sites, it creates an interwiki link to 'mediawikiwiki' (included in the default interwiki table for new installs)
 
* on Mediawiki, it creates an internal or interwiki link
 
* on Mediawiki, it creates an internal or interwiki link
  
 
'''All''' links from the Help namespace to other parts of the mediawiki.org wiki should use this template.}}
 
'''All''' links from the Help namespace to other parts of the mediawiki.org wiki should use this template.}}
 
== Spaces in Page Titles ==
 
These '''must''' be replaced with underscores, otherwise the urlencoding mangles them and you get a page not found error on mediawiki.org.
 
 
So need <nowiki>{{Mediawiki|Page_Title}}</nowiki> not <nowiki>{{Mediawiki|Page Title}}</nowiki>
 
  
 
== Demo of interwiki link ==
 
== Demo of interwiki link ==
  
 
<nowiki>
 
<nowiki>
{{mediawiki|m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation}}</nowiki> gives either <nowiki>[[m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation]] or [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/m%3AHelp%3ACalculation Help:Calculation]</nowiki>, rendered as [[m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation]] or [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/m%3AHelp%3ACalculation Help:Calculation], respectively.  
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{{mediawiki|m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation}}</nowiki> gives either <nowiki>[[m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation]] or [[mediawikiwiki:m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation]]</nowiki>.  
  
 
[[Category:Info templates|MediaWiki]]
 
[[Category:Info templates|MediaWiki]]
 
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Revision as of 10:51, 20 November 2009

{{ #ifeq:

 old.familab.org

| www.mediawiki.org | [[{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] | [[mediawikiwiki:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] }}


This template links to a page on mediawiki.org from the Help pages. The template has two parameters:

  1. Pagename, optionally preceded by an interwiki link prefix valid on mediawiki.org
  2. (optional) Link description

{{ #ifeq: old.familab.org | www.mediawiki.org | This is so that the public domain help pages - which can be freely copied and included in other sites - have correct links to Mediawiki:

  • on external sites, it creates an interwiki link to 'mediawikiwiki' (included in the default interwiki table for new installs)
  • on Mediawiki, it creates an internal or interwiki link

All links from the Help namespace to other parts of the mediawiki.org wiki should use this template.}}

Demo of interwiki link

{{mediawiki|m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation}} gives either [[m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation]] or [[mediawikiwiki:m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation]].