Manual:Extension/BlueSpiceInterWikiLinks

What is BlueSpiceInterwikiLinks?

BlueSpiceInterWikiLinks simplifies linking to other wikis. Through this extension, abbreviations for different extenal wikis can be created, in order to make linking to other wikis easier, and resulting in a much shorter link. Full URL only needs to be known when defining the InterWikiLink, rather than each time it is used.

Where to find Interwikilinks Manager?

. These short codes are then used for linking to pages of the different wikis.

Interwiki links manager

Accessing BlueSpiceInterwikiLinks Editing a link

Manager for Interwiki links can be found in the admin area of the main navigation, under "Management". The manager can also be accessed through Special:InterWikiLinks. User is required to have administrative rights in order Interwiki links are managed under Global actions > Management > Interwiki links. This links to the page Special:InterWikiLinks. A user needs administrative rights to access this page.

Accessing BlueSpiceInterwikiLinks

Editing a link

Overview of all Interwikilinks

Admins can create and delete Interwikilinks on the special page. Existing links can be edited by clicking the "wrench" icon when the link is selected, or deleted by clicking the "X" button.

Syntax The syntax for interwiki links is:

http://URL_OF_THE_WIKI/$1

$1 is the placeholder for the article title of the other wiki.

Use Interwikilinks in ArticlesUsing interwiki links on a page

When in edit mode, links to other wikis defined in the list of Interwiki links can be are added just like links to local wiki pages, but with the Interwiki prefix at the begginingbeginning.

An For example:

The URL to the Wikipedia article "Tree house" is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_house

If we presume that Interwiki link is inserted Wikipedia is a default entry in the Interwiki link manager as:

prefix: wikipedia, url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1

As a result, a link to any wikipedia page can be inserted on the page would be: by using the wikipedia prefix.

[[wikipedia:Tree_house|Wikipedia article about tree houses]]

Special UseCaseuse case: Multilingualismmultilingualism

The prerequisite for this is the implementation of multilingualism using the multi-wiki-concept. This means, for every language a separate wiki is used. The corresponding articles in the appropriate language wikis are connected by interwikilinks. With BlueSpice, the If you want to maintain multiple language versions of your wiki on separate wikis, you can use interwiki links to cross-reference related pages.

With BlueSpice, flag symbols are automatically inserted when the interwikilinks interwiki links with language abbreviations are set, which makes it easy to switch between the language wikis.

This is how you use interwikilinks for realizing multilingualism:

Step 1: Create interwikilinks .

Linking the language versions:

1. Create interwiki links for the required languages ​​and configure them in the

Interwikilink

1. Interwiki link manager (see above) of all language sites. The prefix must always be an ISO-3166 country code, e.g. de, en, fr.

Deposit the corresponding URL of the wiki with the appropriate language.

Step 2:

1. Add

interwikilinks in the articles to link them to the corresponding article in the language wikis. Where in the article the interwikilink is located, is not relevant. Example: In the

1. the interwiki links at the bottom of the related pages to create the language switch. Example: In the English article "Tree", insert the following

interwikilinks

1. interwiki links:

                    [[en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
                

                      
[[de:Baum]]

                

The result of setting the first link is , that also the English flag will be shown in the language selection of the page header toolbar. This is not necessary and can also be omitedomitted. The second link connects the article page with the related german article page "Baum" in the german wiki.

In the left navigation, the languages available are listed under "In Other Languages". At the top of the wiki, the language flags are shown, with which you can navigate the other wikis.

German wiki and generates the German flag as a switch in the header toolbar:

See also

Reference page for this extension.