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Teaching Wikipedia
I am trying to teach students to use Wikipedia at the Brunts School in England. I ask them to create an account in their own time, come to lesson, create their own page, talk page and then create a pretend wiki article in a named sandbox. Besides trying to help help 30 students I have to also fend off bots and enthusiastic defenders of the wiki. Is there some way of marking pages so that they do not get attacked? Obviously you guys are doing a required job here, but I'm sure you intend that new users can create pretend pages in their own sandboxes. New users like to put messages on each others pages without getting strong arm deletions for copyright (because they copied a wiki page to a sandbox); without being told "not a social network"; and because they said hello to someone else and bots that assume that if 30 new users arrive then we need to stop them immediately. Any ideas? Victuallers (talk) 17:11, 23 June 2011 (UTC)