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- Administrator:
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A user with special rights, including blocking of pages or users
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An edit done by an anonymous user; reveals the IP address of the editing user’s computer
- Anonymous user:
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A user who did not log in (i.e., did not identify himself/herself)
- Blocked page/protected page:
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A page that (currently) does not allow edits, often as a response to frequent vandalism; blockings might be temporary or permanent, and they might apply only to anonymous users or to all users except administrators
- Blocked user:
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A user that (currently) cannot edit pages, often as a response to misbehavior; blockings might be temporary or permanent
- Discussion page:
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A page dedicated to discuss the form, style, content of an encyclopedic article (not to discuss the topic treated by the article)
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Subpart of a discussion page representing a conversation related to...
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Kenis, P., Lerner, J. (2018). Wikipedia Collaborative Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_103
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