any reason why as we dont want vandalism on the main page so that is why it's protected theres not much to change anyway since its split into articles in a different area talk and the fact that it is automatically updated per transcluded pages and variables wikipedia featured article currentmonthname currentday currentyear trip shh it's obviously a vandal trying to learn how to vandalise the main page feed them disinformation the page is cascadingly if that's even a word protected so if he or she is a vandal there is no way that he or she could vandalize pages transcluded onto the main page trip you have to type in the super password into the searchbox which jimbo wales gives to his most trusted users then you get a big red button that says are you sure you want to edit the main page if you click it you can edit it but only you because it reads the user's ip address once you make the edit it takes effect but it isn't recorded in history and can only be seen in a special log which is only accessable using the super password that's why they say things like currentmonth currentyear etc to fool new users misdisinformation complete talk pedantically misinformation is different from disinformation fixed thank you talk don't listen to ao the correct way to edit the main page is simple to edit the main page you need to follow these steps take off all your clothes get a friend parent or whatever to take a photo of you editing wikipedia naked this photo must be at least x pixels editing the page naked will extend your editing capability by minutes but any other page is fine upload said found to the wikimedia commons under a license of you choice go to the sandbox and put your photo there repeat the above step times when the photo gets changed once you've done this come back and click on view source you will see a message on your screen for about second it will give you the name of a page you must edit if you productively edit this page within seconds you will now be able to edit the main page if you miss either of this you will have to start all over again from step one including a new photo be aware that if at any time you vandalise wikipedia or try to pass off a photo of someone else as you you will be banned from editing the main page for life x good luck hmm i know this discussion is cold but wouldn't it be awesome if the welcome to wikipedia box said everyone can edit even this very page or click here to edit this very page this would really reinforce the idea of wikipedia's editability maybe somehow protect the current content of the page and add a box containing edits at the bottom i realise no one would ever agree to this the chances of vandalism profanity etc being posted there are but it would be pretty cool wouldn't it goldfritter april