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Yes, you can copy interface text from public domain programs, or CC0 programs, directly onto Wikipedia, as public domain programs are compatible with the CC-BY-SA license used by Wikipedia. Make sure the program is explicitly licensed CC0 or public domain, and use {{ CC-notice }} or {{ PD-notice }} to indicate this.
Copying and translating information from a Wikimedia project other than the English Wikipedia is usually possible, since all Wikimedia projects use the same or compatible licensing for most of their content. The edit summary must provide either a link to the original source or a list of all contributors.
If you have copied text but forgotten to use the edit summary, this can be easily corrected: You can make a dummy edit by making an inconsequential change to the article—such as adding a blank line to the end of the article—and link to the source article in edit summary then.
Courtesy link: Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources @CrafterNova: Yes, I was aware of the ngrams distinction, but two things: 1) interpretation of ngrams is ...
Find the page which contains the section you want to refer to. Click on "Permanent link" in the "Toolbox" in the lefthand sidebar. Go to the page's Table of Contents. Right-click on the name of the section you want to use, where it appears in the Table of Contents, and select "Copy link address". The section link you want is now in your clipboard.
In Wikipedia, Copied text or Copying text may refer to one of the following: Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources, information page regarding copying text from a third party source and pasting the text into Wikipedia; Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia, guideline outlying the requirement for edits and text to be attributed to their editors
Attribution To re-distribute a text page in any form, provide credit to the authors either by including a) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using, b) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the ...
A convenience link is a link to a copy of your source on a web page provided by someone other than the original publisher or author. For example, a copy of a newspaper article no longer available on the newspaper's website may be hosted elsewhere.