London Wiki:Wikipedia

Introduction
This wiki is not intended to supplant any of the popular wiki encyclopaedia "Wikipedia".

This wiki has a different basis and can, for example, contain "point of view" material and much detail that would be considered not encyclopaedic. Where appropriate, our pages link to Wikipedia for further information.

Some links to Wikicities are on Wikipedia, and more can be added as appropriate.

Linking to Wikipedia pages
Generally we can create a link to a Wikipedia page simply by prefixing "wikipedia:" inside the link. The full URL may be used instead.

Some of our recommended standard "templates" incorporate links to Wikipedia pages. The links can be deleted or varied by editing.

Copying from Wikipedia
As we are on the same licence as Wikipedia, text from there may be copied if given proper acknowledgment.

Whenever you do such copying from a page in the English version, please add the following template near the bottom of the page: "enWP|" (inside double curly braces). You need to add after the "pipe" the full name of the English WP article (preferably pasted for accuracy). The result looks a bit like this:

See Template_talk:EnWP for an illustration.

As mentioned above, we can easily link to Wikipedia articles. The value in copying is
 * 1) for specific paragraphs or extracts; or
 * 2) so that we can have direct internal links from our copy.