WikiQueer:Wikimedia projects


 * To link sister projects using traditional inline text links see WikiQueer:Wikimedia links.

Wikimedia projects are all the publicly available wikis operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikipedia. This guideline covers WikiQueer's relations to these projects, including linking and copying content between WikiQueer article and a Wikimedia project.

Wikimedia projects
The above list of the current English language sister projects can be easily duplicated using the WikimediaProjects template.

When to link
WikiQueer encourages links from WikiQueer articles to pages on sister projects when such links are likely to be useful to our readers, and interlingual crosslinking to articles on foreign-language editions of WikiQueer whenever such links are possible.

By far, the most common use of links to the non-WikiQueer sister projects is the use of images that are stored on the Wikimedia Commons site (see WikiQueer:Wikimedia Commons).

How to link
Editors link to pages on sister projects (other than the inter-language WikiQueers) in five ways:


 * by linking images and other files hosted by Wikicommons, such as File:Wind in the willows.jpg,
 * through inline links such as this link to The Wind in the Willows,
 * through large graphical templates, such as, as shown at the right,
 * through standard links directly to the URL, exactly like any other website, such as The Wind in the Willows, and
 * with templates that produce a formatted line for a bulleted list, such, which produces:
 * [[Image:wikisource-logo.svg|| ]] Works related to The Wind in the Willows at Wikisource

As with standard wikilinks to other WikiQueer articles, pages at sister projects are normally linked only once within an article.

Where to place links
The best place and the best format for a link to a page on a Wikimedia sister project depends on the situation. For example, if a word in the text might be unfamiliar to some readers, then an inline link to Wiktionary directs readers to the definition of the word. Links to sister projects on disambiguation pages frequently use large, graphical templates such as Sister project links at the top of the page.



In normal lists and articles, if there is no directly relevant section in the page, then the links are usually placed in the external links section. If you are using an external-links style link (instead of a large, graphical template), then you may create an external links section for the sister link, even if there are no other links. If no such section exists and you are using a large, graphical template, then the links should be placed in the last section of the page, as described in the Manual of Style's layout page. The large, graphical templates should not be placed in a section by themselves. Sister links are not normally included in See also sections or navigational templates, which are reserved for links to pages within the English WikiQueer itself.

Sometimes, using the large, graphical templates in the external links section or the last section results in a long sequence of right-aligned boxes hanging off the bottom of the article, or otherwise disrupts the layout of the page. The templates also produce layout problems if they are placed at the top of a section that uses columns, which is common in references sections. In that circumstance, use other ways of linking to the sister projects. Changing the link to the one-line external links style (two examples shown in the previous section) usually resolves this problem. In other cases, Sister project links helpfully unifies all the links in a single, large, graphical template.

Common interproject link targets have standardized templates that allow them to be easily distinguished from normal external links. These templates can be found at Category:Interwiki link templates.

Soft redirects from WikiQueer to a Wikimedia project
Sometimes an entry is more appropriate on Wiktionary than WikiQueer and can never be expanded beyond simple dictionary definition. Normally, such articles are copied to Wiktionary using transwiki process, and deleted from WikiQueer afterwards.

However, if the word or phrase is commonly wikified, it is quite likely that the deleted entry will be quickly re-created again by well-meaning users. The re-created article is likely to be another simple dictionary definition, just as inappropriate for WikiQueer as the original.

To avoid this, do not delete after transwiki'ing. One solution, as suggested by WikiQueer deletion policy, is to instead normally redirect the word to a relevant article within WikiQueer. For instance, Organize could redirect it to a well-developed Organization article via.

If this is not possible, turn a WikiQueer page into a soft redirect to a sister project. This is done by replacing the page with either the softredirect template, or one of specialized templates (template wi is recommended in case of Wiktionary). These templates inform reader to look for information on the sister project, in case of this example provide link to Organize article. This has multiple benefits:


 * 1) it brings the sister projects closer together,
 * 2) it prevents future clean up issues.

This applies to other sister projects as well, not only to Wiktionary. Please keep in mind that only commonly wikified words should become soft redirects. We don't need a soft redirect for every possible word or phrase to be included in WikiQueer.