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Although you cannot edit protected pages that belong to others, the contents of protected pages (like all content in Proteopedia) can be read by everyone, and are also freely available to copy or adapt. Suppose that an educator has written a protected page that covers some material you need to teach. You are free to copy the protected page into either a publicly editable page, or into a protected page of your own, and then change it as you wish. Here are instructions for copying a protected page (or any page, for that matter). | Although you cannot edit protected pages that belong to others, the contents of protected pages (like all content in Proteopedia) can be read by everyone, and are also freely available to copy or adapt. Suppose that an educator has written a protected page that covers some material you need to teach. You are free to copy the protected page into either a publicly editable page, or into a protected page of your own, and then change it as you wish. Here are instructions for copying a protected page (or any page, for that matter). | ||
# Display the protected page (the ''source'' page), and click it its | # Display the protected page (the ''source'' page), and click it its '''edit this page''' tab. | ||
# Click in the box containing the source (wiki) text for the source page. | # Click in the box containing the source (wiki) text for the source page. | ||
# Block the portion that you wish to copy of the source text of the page (which can be the entire page if you wish). | # Block the portion that you wish to copy of the source text of the page (which can be the entire page if you wish). | ||
