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id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-namespace">Wikimedia</span><span class="mw-page-title-separator">:</span><span class="mw-page-title-main">Content protection policy</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang"> <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="This article exist only in this language. 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