Help:Interlanguage links

Interlanguage links are links from a page in one language to an equivalent page in another language. These links can appear in two places:

These two types of links are created and handled differently and are discussed in different sections below.

The local links do however still serve some purposes:

The local interlanguage links take the following form:

It is sometimes possible to combine the two approaches, giving a local red link in addition to an interlanguage link explicitly marked as such. For example: "...the plans were drawn up by German architect Hans Knoblauch ()..." is coded as [[Hans Knoblauch]] ([[:de:Hans Knoblauch|de]]) The template {{}} was designed to assist this combined approach.

If a red link is not appropriate locally for whatever reason, such as because the subject does not appear to be notable, then linking a page in another language may be useful.

Interlanguage links may also be useful outside of the mainspace for convenience, such as from one's userpage to a page frequently visited or that like-minded visitors might want to go to.

You can create a clickable link that will be visible in your text by adding a colon before and after the language abbreviation:

These links look like this: or . The language abbreviation is displayed, so the reader knows that they are links to the French article on the Olympic Games and the Japanese article on Tokyo.

But if you wish you can use the pipe to show only the title:

Which would look like this in your text: or

The following code:

renders as:

Templates {{}} and {{}} are also available to construct diffs for other languages and projects, as is the special-page term :Diff/: [[:fr:Special:Diff/96480208]] will show the as above.

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