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Soft security

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(English) This is an essay. It expresses the opinions and ideas of some Wikimedians but may not have wide support. This is not policy on Meta, but it may be a policy or guideline on other Wikimedia projects. Feel free to update this page as needed, or use the discussion page to propose major changes.
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Soft security as implemented by various wikimedia projects. See Meatball:SoftSecurity.

Rubber room

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The sandbox provides a place for newbies to expirement. This prevents them from experimenting on important pages.

Security through obscurity and Prickly Hedge

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The use of templates on the english wikipedia home page to allow nonsysops to edit the various components of the page.

Front lawn

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The userpages on the various wikimedia projects.

Audit trails and reversible changes

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Page history and ability to revert.