Translations:Guide to interwiki linking/28/en

Interwiki links are internal-style links to other websites (which do not have to be wikis, despite the name). For example, you can link to the article $1 by typing $2. It will result in a link $3. This works because Miraheze Meta-Wiki configures simple: as an "interwiki prefix" that turns into $4 when used inside $5. Interwiki links, in contrast to internal links, do not use page existence detection, so they will still display as blue links even if the page in question does not exist on the destination wiki.