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External links and references are two important elements of Wikipedia that newcomers sometimes find trouble with. This page is designed to cover only the technical aspects of linking and referencing; it is essential that editors also familiarize themselves with Wikipedia:External links, Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Citing sources, as well as Wikipedia's various other policies ...
On this page, you will be able to enter any web address from a service hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, to generate a short URL, and to copy it and reuse it anywhere. The format of the URL is w.wiki/ followed by a string of letters and numbers. You can already test this, for example: https://w.wiki/3 redirects to wikimedia.org
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.
Copy the list of page names to a text editor Put all page names on separate lines Prefix the namespace to the page names (e.g. 'Help:Contents'), unless the selected namespace is the main namespace.
You can "deep link" to a section of an article (or other Wikipedia page), using a hash character (#), then the section's title, with underscore characters (_) replacing spaces.
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Copy the table to a wiki sandbox. In Calc select the table. Copy directly from it, and then paste into the visual editor, or if that does not work, into a blank visual editor table where the first header cell has been selected. It may take up to a minute. If there is a problem, then paste into Excel2Wiki first, and copy the wikitext.
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.