Soft security
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Soft security as implemented by various wikimedia projects. See Meatball:SoftSecurity.
Rubber room[edit]
The sandbox provides a place for newbies to expirement. This prevents them from experimenting on important pages.
Security through obscurity and Prickly Hedge[edit]
The use of templates on the english wikipedia home page to allow nonsysops to edit the various components of the page.
Front lawn[edit]
The userpages on the various wikimedia projects.
Audit trails and reversible changes[edit]
Page history and ability to revert.