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| ==How to vandalize Wikipedia pages==
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| ===General direction===
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| # Put something that looks legit for the edit summary, like
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| Reverted edits by 1.2.3.4 to last version by SomeUser
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| stub sorting using [[WP:AWB|AWB]]
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| reword per [[WP:MOS]]
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| # English Wikipedia is edited mostly by [[English language|English]] speakers. 73% of the English speakers are [[Canadian]]s or [[American]]s. So pick a time when most of these people are asleep.
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| # Go to a public place where you cannot be traced. Look at the talk page of your "IP user" first. It would be ideal to use an IP that has never edited before.
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| # Use a browser that supports [[Tabbed document interface|tabbed browsing]] such as [[Mozilla Firefox]] or [[Opera (Internet suite)|Opera]]. Open many tabs, edit, and save them all at once (as quickly as possible using alt-s (or alt-shift-s) and the hot key for switching between tabs)
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| # If you are still not blocked and have done everything you can, copy and paste this how-to to high visibility pages
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| # Do not edit articles that are recently edited, as more eyes are on it
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| ===Specifics===
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| ====Sneaky====
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| # Avoid profanity words. They will be caught by robots quickly
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| # Change the dates on the biography of a not-so-known person
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| # Rearrange large chunk of paragraphs, but insert a short sentence somewhere
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| # Find a page where a table is written as
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| :| a || b || c || d
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| :and change it do
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| :| a
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| :| b
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| :| something else
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| :| d
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| # Create [[Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page|archive]] [[Wikipedia:Subpages|subpage]] of a user talk page. Use the next available number. While you're at it, you might as well do the archive for the user.
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| # Pick something which is less likely to have [[cognate]]s in other languages. Add interwiki link to random article of a lesser known language.
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| # Replace Latin letters with Cyrillic or Greek letters that look the same. Combine this with trick with paragraph rearranging. Use external word processing software to quickly replace the letters.
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| ====Maximize damage====
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| # Add things like <pre><div style="position:absolute;top:-50px;left:-50px;width:100%;height:100%;font-size:50000px;font-color:transparent;">[your url here]</div></pre>
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| # Make circular [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirects]]
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| :For example, replace [[University of Cambridge]] with
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| #REDIRECT [[Cambridge University]]
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| :and replace [[Cambridge University]] with
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| #REDIRECT [[University of Cambridge]]
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| # Redirect one thing to another that has nothing to do
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| :For example, redirect [[Virginia]] to [[vagina]]
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| # Redirect X to Y, where Y is a new page, and go back to X without redirect, edit X, add some comment like <nowiki><!-- blah --></nowiki>. If you do this right, it would require an admin to move Y back to X.
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| # Attack highly used templates such as {{tl|Infobox Country}}, [[:Category:Infobox templates|Other infoboxes]], {{tl|disputed}}, {{tl|move}}, [[:Category:Wikipedia maintenance templates|other maintenance templates]]
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| # Edit the typo list at [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos]]. Make sure the edits are syntactically correct.
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| # Vandalize edit summary (they cannot be undone).
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| # Include a very large pictures on many pages to clog the bandwidth
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| # Pick something from [[Special:Mostrevisions]] but don't edit the page directly. Edit a template that it transcludes.
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| # Go to [[Wikipedia:Requests for page protection]] and vandalize some page that was recently unprotected just to frustrate someone.
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