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== Your first edit ==== Your first edit ==
−# Find a page with a problem — a typo, a missing fact, an unclear sentence.+# Find a page with a problem: a typo, a missing fact, an unclear sentence.
# Click '''Edit''' at the top of the page.# Click '''Edit''' at the top of the page.
# Make the change.# Make the change.
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== Anonymous or not ==== Anonymous or not ==
−Edits made without logging in are credited to '''Anonymous''' in the page history. That is the whole of what is recorded — there is no way to type a name into the edit form, because a name nobody owns tells a reader nothing.+Edits made without logging in are credited to '''Anonymous''' in the page history. The edit form has no field for a name.
−[[Special:CreateAccount|Registering an account]] gives you a name that is yours. Usernames are unique: once ''Ada'' is taken, no one else can edit under it, so when a page history says ''Ada'' made a change, it means the person holding that account did. Accounts need a username and a password and nothing else — no email address is asked for, which also means a lost password cannot be recovered.+[[Special:CreateAccount|Registering an account]] gives you a name that is yours. Usernames are unique: once ''Ada'' is taken, no one else can edit under it, so when a page history says ''Ada'' made a change, it means the person holding that account did. Accounts need a username and a password. No email address is collected, so a lost password cannot be recovered.
−Anonymous edits are not second-class. They appear in [[Special:RecentChanges|recent changes]] like any other, and are judged the same way: on whether the change improves the article.+Anonymous edits appear in [[Special:RecentChanges|recent changes]] alongside the rest.
== Your first article ==== Your first article ==
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== What happens to your edit ==== What happens to your edit ==
−It goes live immediately. There is no approval queue: this wiki publishes first and reviews afterwards, which is what makes "anyone can edit" true rather than a slogan.+It goes live immediately. There is no approval queue: edits are published first and checked afterwards.
Three things happen around that:Three things happen around that:
−* '''Edit filters''' check every save before it is stored. They look for the shapes vandalism takes — blanking a page, shouting, rows of repeated characters — and they exempt [[OpenWiki:User access levels|autoconfirmed]] accounts. See [[Special:AbuseFilter]].+* '''Edit filters''' check every save before it is stored. They look for blanking, text in capitals, rows of repeated characters and similar patterns, and exempt [[OpenWiki:User access levels|autoconfirmed]] accounts. See [[Special:AbuseFilter]].
* '''Patrollers''' work through [[Special:RecentChanges]] and [[Special:NewPages]], marking edits they have checked.* '''Patrollers''' work through [[Special:RecentChanges]] and [[Special:NewPages]], marking edits they have checked.
−* '''Anything can be undone.''' Every version of every page is kept, and reverting takes one click. That asymmetry — cheap to fix, cheap to try — is why the door can stay open.+* '''Reverting.''' Every version of every page is kept, and any reader can undo an edit from the page history.
−A small number of pages are [[OpenWiki:Protection policy|protected]] or use pending-changes review. Those are exceptions, applied to pages that attract damage, not the normal state of the encyclopedia.+A small number of pages are [[OpenWiki:Protection policy|protected]] or use pending-changes review. These are applied to pages that attract repeated damage.
== What to expect ==== What to expect ==
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