Thread:TK-999/@comment-25898954-20160727210245

Oi! As you are a better coder than I, I thought I'd address this query to you. So, on another Wikia wiki, I'm trying to create a template like Template:SW or Template:W that links to an external MediaWiki-based wiki at a custom URL. Basically, it doesn't work.

To give concrete examples, we copied this template to this page on our wiki, and quickly realized it didn't work. I tried a sample redirect on both wikis, and found that it threw an error on the first site, but failed to register at all on ours. I'm guessing this is because of a missing interwiki prefix found somewhere on the first site but absent on ours? If so, how do we add such a prefix properly to link to the external wiki?

tl;dr: send halp plz 