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Wiki pages can be exported in a special XML format to import into another MediaWiki installation or use it elsewise for instance for analysing the content. See also m:Syndication feeds for exporting all other information except pages, and see Help:Import on importing pages.
The external links guideline recommends avoiding links to Facebook unless the profile is an official account, "controlled by the subject (organization or individual person) of the Wikipedia article" and when the links to Facebook "provide the reader with unique content and are not prominently linked from other official websites".
Permanent link; Page information; Get shortened URL; Download QR code; ... You can export a Wikipedia page such as an article and save it as a PDF file in several ways:
in the Image namespace (Image description pages): the image itself, the image history and the list of pages linking to the image; in the Category namespace: the lists of subcategories and pages in the category. Information in the wikitext but not in the webpage: comments (even though HTML also allows comments) See also XML export.
Another link-dependent feature is related changes, which make it possible to view recent changes to all pages which are linked from the current page (or which are members of the category, if it is a category page). For information on how to link to pages from an image, see mw:Extension:ImageMap.
If you want to import many articles, it is usually a good idea to ask first if the material is appropriate for Wikipedia, for example, on Wikipedia:Village pump. If there is a very high number of articles, you may also want to consider writing or using a bot (i.e. a script) to import them; see Wikipedia:Bots for guidelines. Over 30,000 articles ...
The link to edit the Wikidata page, in grey, in the lateral pane. From a Wikipedia page, you can go to the link "Wikidata item", using "Tools" in the lateral pane (in the left), to see and edit it.
Once you've uploaded an image to Commons, adding it to a Wikipedia article is very simple. You just go to the article, click "edit this page," decide where you want the image to be, and type a link to the image page. It'll look something like this: [[File:Nameofimage.ext|some other optional stuff]]. (More on the "other optional stuff" in a moment.)