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	Textbooks from Wikibooks
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	Learning resources from Wikiversity
	Database entry on Wikidata
	Taxonomy of from Wikispecies
	Species author on Wikispecies
	Discussion from Meta-Wiki
	Documentation on from MediaWiki

This template is used on approximately 12,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This template uses Lua: Module:Sister project links (sandbox) Module:Commons link (sandbox)

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	Media from Commons
	News stories from Wikinews
	Quotations from Wikiquote
	Source texts from Wikisource
	Textbooks from Wikibooks
	Learning resources from Wikiversity

The {{Sister project links}} template provides one box with links to corresponding pages on various Wikimedia sister projects. The following pages are sought, in order:

• An explicit page chosen by an editor (if provided)
• A sitelink in Wikidata (if exists)
• A search page on the sister project

Sending a reader to a search page can be an unpleasant experience, if there is no corresponding page for that subject. Editors have a choice between two methods to prevent this negative experience:

• Manually check each project for a relevant page, if missing, then set argument to "no" (e.g., |wikt=n)
• Use "automatic mode", which only displays a sister project by default if sitelink exists (e.g., |auto=yes)

Note that {{Sister project auto}} is equivalent to {{Sister project links|auto=yes}}.

Usage

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	Definitions from Wiktionary
	Media from Commons
	News stories from Wikinews
	Quotations from Wikiquote
	Source texts from Wikisource
	Textbooks from Wikibooks
	Travel guide from Wikivoyage
	Learning resources from Wikiversity
	Database entry Yes on Wikidata
	Taxonomy of yes from Wikispecies
	Species authorJohn on Wikispecies
	Discussion from Meta-Wiki
	Documentation on yes from MediaWiki

{{Sister project links
<!-- Configuration parameters. -->
 |1= |display= |auto= |collapsible= |position= |style=
<!-- Note: The order of the projects is as they appear in the navbox. -->
<!-- First part: Projects that default to "yes" when auto=no -->
 |wikt= |c= |n= |q= |s= |b= |v=
<!-- Second part: Projects that default to "no" when auto=no -->
 |voy= |species= |species_author= |iw= |d= |m= |mw= |f=
<!-- The following parameters specifying search options for pages above. -->
 |commonscat= <!-- (relevant for c) force link to commons category -->
 |author= <!-- (relevant for s) force search for author name in wikisource -->
 |cookbook= <!-- (relevant for b) force link to cookbook at wikibooks -->
}}

Example with all parameters and all projects displayed (see right):

{{Sister project links
 |1= |display= |auto= |collapsible= |position= |style=
 |wikt= |c= |n= |q= |s= |b= |v=
 |voy=yes |species=yes |species_author=John |iw=en |d=yes |m=yes |mw=yes |f=yes
 |commonscat= |author= |cookbook=
}}

Default display

For any project parameter, there are four acceptable values:

• "yes" means find a reasonable link for the sister project (Wikidata, or default back to search)
• "no" means exclude this sister project: no link
• a string means link to the page with whose title is that string
• blank or missing means use the default
  • If |auto=yes, default is either use Wikidata (if present), or drop the link
  • If |auto=no, if project is in the "yes" list above, either use Wikidata or search. Otherwise drop the link.

Location

Generally:

N Do not place this template or any box-type template in a section all by itself.

N Do not place this template in a section containing columns without floating left.

N Do not indent this template with colon (:) or a bullet (*) markup.

Specifically:

• In articles, this template should be placed at the top of the last section on the page so that it floats to the right of that section.
  • See Misplaced Pages:Wikimedia sister projects#Where to place links for more information and alternatives.
• In disambiguation pages, this template is usually placed at the top of the page.
• In categories, this template should be grouped with other templates at the beginning of the category introduction. This avoids unnecessary white space as any text is floated around the template boxes.

Interwiki link

The |iw= parameter is for use in articles about languages themselves. It is designed to be used instead of the {{InterWiki}} template: it links to the Main Page of Misplaced Pages that corresponds to the language code. See Template:InterWiki/doc for more information. Up to three sister Wikipedias can be linked, using |iw=, |iw1=, and |iw2=.

TemplateData

TemplateData for Sister project links

Images used

This template potentially displays the following images:

Wiktionary logo wikt

Wikimedia Commons logo c or commons

Wikinews logo n

Wikiquote logo q

Wikisource logo s

Wikibooks logo b

Wikivoyage logo voy

Wikiversity logo v

Wikispecies logo species or species_author

Misplaced Pages logo iw

Wikidata logo d

Meta-Wiki logo m

MediaWiki logo mw

Wikifunctions logo f

Tracking categories

• Category:Pages using Sister project links with unknown parameters (2)
• Category:Pages using Sister project links with default search (4,286)
• Category:Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata (6,432)
• Category:Pages using Sister project links with wikidata namespace mismatch (1,062)
• Category:Pages using Sister project links with wikidata mismatch (571)
• Category:Pages with empty sister project links (62)

See also

• Template:Sister project – used on more than one million pages
• Template:Sister bar – a horizontal version
• Template:Subject bar – a horizontal version that includes optional portals
• Template:Commons
• Misplaced Pages:Template index/Sister projects
• Help:Interwiki linking

• Interwiki link sidebar templates