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In 2007, Virgil Griffith created a searchable database that linked changes made by anonymous Wikipedia editors to companies and organizations from which the changes were made. The database cross-referenced logs of Wikipedia edits with publicly available records pertaining to the internet IP addresses edits were made from. [18]
To allow the user to continue to edit pages normally while blocking other actions: Uncheck the Editing checkbox. Check the other actions to block where appropriate. To prevent the user from editing specific pages or within a namespace: Select the Partial radio button below the Editing checkbox. Enter the specific pages in the Pages box.
If an article for a given exceptional event has been created, additions and discussions are better discussed there during the protection period and talk can take place on the safe implementation of BLP components. Requests for page protection can be added here. Repeated vandalism and deliberately disruptive editing can be reported here.
Global blocks prevent editing by accounts or logged-out users on all public Wikimedia wikis, except for Meta-Wiki. They are applied for cross-wiki vandalism, spamming, or other types of disruption, or to block open proxies.
The MediaWiki software allows the ability to block editing of individual pages, known as a 'partial block', and sometimes this is used as a means of enforcing a specific set of ban conditions. However, bans such as topic bans or interaction bans still require human judgement to enforce and assess, and the presence or not of a partial block in ...
If you want to edit a section of a page with the old wikitext editor, you need to hover the mouse pointer over the "edit" link to the right of the section name (or over the section name itself), then click "edit source" when that link appears. This approach keeps open the possibility — deliberate or accidental — of editing in the VE.
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The editing history of an article and the list of edits to date can be looked up by any user, by clicking "HISTORY" at the top of the article page, which will list the history of edits to the article. Clicking on DIFF next to any edit will show the details of any changes made at that time, old text on the left, new text on the right.