FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Creating Interwiki Links

Purpose
We have a new Wiki extension that allows us to move the link indicating if that Wiki is in another language Wiki on the left sidebar. We will be editing the former Language template at the bottom of the page to create this new link.

Task List
Task List List each language wiki task list

Step 1 - Sign up for a page to fix
1. Go to the Task List and put your name next to a Wiki page link in column A.

2. Click on the link to go to that Wiki page. On a google sheet, after you click on the link, a small dialogue box with the URL will appear. You must click that link to open the Wiki page you will work on.

Step 2 - Find the Language Link
1. Once on the Wiki page, make sure you are logged into the Wiki. You will know if you are logged into the Wiki, if you can see your FamilySearch username in the top right hand corner of the screen.

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2. Once you are logged in, you will see a tab in the top right corner of the screen, labeled, Edit Source. Click on that tab and you will now see the wikitext code for the page.

3. Use the scroll bar on the wikitext box and go to the bottom of the page. You will see some wikitext code that looks something like this:

This code creates a link to the French Wiki for a similar article on the same subject. That link looks like this:

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Step 3 - Fix the Language Link
4. Once you locate the code at the bottom of the page, you will now alter it to match the coding for an Interwiki link by doing the following:


 * a. From the above wikitext, delete the 2 curly brackets, template name and the en= and name of the page. In this example would take out the following:

{{H-langs|en=United States Genealogy
 * b. Also delete the curly brackets at the end of the link located after "Estados Unidos."
 * c. Add 2 square brackets before the "es" which stands for the Spanish Wiki, like this:

[[es=Estados Unidos - Genealogía
 * c. Now replace the pipe | with two square brackets facing the left. It will look like this:

es=Estados Unidos - Genealogía
 * d. Because there are two links you need to create from this language template, go the end of the Spanish word and the square brackets, "Genealogía]]" and click on the "Enter" key to make the rest of the link go to the next line.
 * e. Change the Portuguese link the same way you did the Spanish link by adding square brackets to the beginning and the end of the link, like this:

pt=Estados Unidos
 * f. The new completed wikitext code for the 2 language links should now look like this:

es=Estados Unidos - Genealogía pt=Estados Unidos

Note: Each language has an abbreviation that will send the user to the correct language Wiki age. Here is a key:

Step 4 - Preview and Save the page
1. Now that the Interwiki templates for both Spanish and Portuguese are made, let's check to make sure it will appear on the page correctly. 2. At the bottom of the page, you should see a "Show Preview" button. Click on it. 3. Scroll up the page until you see below the Tools menu, the phrase, "In other languages" 4. Directly below it you should see links labeled, Español and Português. 5. If all the language links appear correctly, scroll back down the page and type, "Added Interwiki" link in the "Summary" field and click the blue button, "Save Changes."