London Wikia: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 other detail that would be considered not encyclopaedic. Where appropriate, our pages link to Wikipedia for further information.

Some links to Wikia are on Wikipedia, and more can be added as appropriate, where an article of ours is more detailed than on Wikipedia.

Linking to Wikipedia pages
Generally we can create a link to a Wikipedia page simply by prefixing "wikipedia:" inside the link. If the link contains a pipe character, the display will not show the Wikipedia prefix; if it does not have one it will - so in that case you can fix the display by adding a pipe just before the closing brackets, and the software will add the "pagename" after the pipe when you publish.

The full URL may be used instead. If just the URL is used, it will all display. To avoid that, you may put it in single square brackets so that just a number appears. 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. See Help:Copying from Wikipedia.

Whenever you do such copying from a page in the English version, please add the following template near the bottom of the page: "Wikipedia|" (inside double curly braces). You need to add after the "pipe" the full name of the English WP article (preferably pasted for accuracy) unless it is identical and our page will not be renamed. The result looks a bit like this:

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