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The most obvious thing to do is to copy and paste content. Note, however, that most formatting will not be preserved. Also note that single linebreaks are ignored by Knowledge (XXG), so if your source uses them, you will get very long lines. You can double all line breaks to replace them with full
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Simple permission to "use" an article will not be enough, you have to make clear to the author that their work can be modified and distributed in accordance with the CC-BY-SA license.
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If you want to import many articles, it is usually a good idea to ask first if the material is appropriate for Knowledge (XXG), for example, on
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Is there an article you have written and would like to import into Knowledge (XXG)? There are several ways to accomplish this.
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Please note that you cannot import articles which the author has not put in the public domain, under the
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for guidelines. Over 30,000 articles have been imported from US Census data, so it can be done.
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It explains concepts or processes used by the Knowledge (XXG) community. It is not one of
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If you want to properly import articles, you may consider using a conversion utility.
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If it is a very long article, and intended primarily for reference purposes, you can
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Editors that support 594:paragraphs. 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Knowledge (XXG):How to import articles
how-to guide
Knowledge (XXG)'s policies or guidelines
consensus
Linking and
page manipulation

URLs
Links
Orphans
Interlanguage links
Interwiki linking
Shortcuts
External links
External link icons
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Link color
Colon trick
Pipe trick
Self links
What links here
Linksearch
Manual of Style on linking
Navigation templates
Hatnotes
Template index for links
Diffs
Simplest diff guide
Simple diff and link guide
Complete diff and link guide
Category
Categorization guideline

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