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can anyone edit Wikipedia
this is Lisa Lisa is new at Wikipedia
and wants to edit an article but for
some reason she can she realizes that
the article is semi protected why is
that Wikipedia is edited every day by
thousands of volunteers from around the
world truly everyone can contribute
their knowledge it's a great system and
it's what made Wikipedia the largest
encyclopedia and one of the most popular
websites on the Internet in only a few
years but the world wide web is also
home to many online trolls those are
people who enjoy annoying and provoking
others and they often cause damage to
make Wikipedia's knowledge less
vulnerable to such trolls so that they
can't damage it or delete it altogether
with just a few clicks
only Auto confirmed users can edit semi
protected articles to get this status
Lisa has to make at least ten edits to
unprotected articles also her account
has to be more than four days old aside
from that more experienced Wikipedians
make sure that community selected
administrators find out about users who
repeatedly break Wikipedia's rules and
temporarily block them of course they
also check that the changes meet
Wikipedia standards for instance they
make sure that Lisa used a neutral tone
and cited good sources even if Lisa
makes a few mistakes at the beginning
it's no big deal great when changes are
undone it's almost always for good
reasons Wikipedia is not about pushing
individual opinions but rather reaching
a consensus together still Lisa wants to
defend her edit so she uses the top page
to make a case that is objective polite
and supported by good sources finally
four days later Lisa has made her first
hand successful edits so her user
account is now auto confirmed from now
on she can also edit semi protected
articles move pages or upload files
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