Help:URL

<-MediaWiki User's Guide

See en:Wikipedia:URLs; everything works the same, except that the domain names vary:


 * www.wikipedia.org
 * meta.wikipedia.org
 * wiktionary.org
 * quote.wikipedia.org
 * wikibooks.org
 * sources.wikipedia.org
 * sep11.wikipedia.org
 * test.wikipedia.org
 * xx.wikipedia.org with xx the language code, see The provisional portal of Wikipedia

In projects outside Wikimedia the "w/" in URLs like http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&action=history is sometimes not used, sometimes different, e.g.:
 * http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Disinfopedia_Main_Page&action=history
 * http://www.wikitravel.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&action=history

There may be other variations, compare:
 * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver
 * http://www.wikitravel.org/en/article/Vancouver

See also MediaWiki User's Guide: Namespaces, Make non-ugly URLs