ويکيپېډيا:وييپانگه - ويکيپېډيا
منځپانگې ته ورتلل
د ويکيپېډيا، وړیا پوهنغونډ له خوا
ويکيپېډيا ته ښه راغلئ
لارښود ليکلړ
پوښتنې وپوښتئ
ويکي کوډونه زده کول
ډېر ځليزې پوښتنې کتل
وييپانگه لوستل
ژوندۍ لارښوونه
جال بانډار
له لارې
لارښود مېز
د سرچينې مېز
لارښودليکچه
کينډۍ:د
وييپانگه
دا برخه د وييپانګې لپاره ځانګړې بڼه لري او د لوستونکو لپاره د لارښود او تشريح په ډول وړاندې کېږي.
يادونه: که څه هم لاندې تعريفونه د ښه پوهېدو او د
پروژو
خبرو اترو مخونو
، او د
سمون لنډيزونو
تر منځ د مؤثرې اړیکې جوړولو لپاره ګټور دي، خو په ياد ولرئ چې په علمي ليکنو کې
جارگون
تشريح کړئ او مقاله په داسې ساده او روښانه ژبه وليکئ چې لوستونکي پرې په اسانۍ پوه/پوی شي او د ويکيپېډيا د ځانګړو علمي اصطلاحاتو ځانګړې پوهه ته اړتیا ونه لري.
په خبرو اترو پاڼو او د سمون لنډيزونو کې د ويکيپېډيا اصطلاحاتو لکه لنډلارو ډېر استعمال هم مه کوئ، لږ تر لږه پرته له دې چې د اړوندو پاڼو ته تشريحي لینکونه ورکړل شي. د دې موضوع په اړه يو مقاله وګورئ:
Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
لنډلارې
WP:G
WP:TERM
WP:GLOSSARY
دا هغه
وييپانگه
ده چې په
ويکيپېډيا
کې ډېره کارول کېږي
. د نورو لارښوونو لپاره د
ويکيپېډيا:لارښود
ويکيپېډيا:ډ-ځ-پ
، او
ويکيپېډيا:Contributing FAQ
پاڼې وګورئ.
که د سمون لنډیز کې کارېدونکي لنډونونه غواړئ وپېژنئ، نو
ويکيپېډيا:د سمون لنډيز څرگندونې
وګورئ. د هغو لنډلارو لپاره چې د ړنګولو ليکنو (د-ړ-ل) کې کارېږي،
ويکيپېډيا:د ړنگولو لارښود
وګورئ.
د عامو لنډونونو بشپړ لړليک چې په ويکيپېډيا کې کارېږي، په
ويکيپېډيا:د ابېڅو انډۍ
کې موندل کېږي. د ويکيپېډيا نه بهر د عاميانه اصطلاحاتو لپاره
د انټرنټ د عاميانه اصطلاحگانو لړليک
وګورئ.
همدارنګه دا هم وګورئ:
ويکيپېډيا:د بڼې لارښود (لنډونونه)
او
ويکيپېډيا:د ويکي پروژې وييپانگه
مالومات
!$@
0–9
See also
!$@
– en:, de:, ja: او نور.
دا د انګلیسي، الماني، جاپاني او نورو ژبو ويکيپېډيا ته اشاره کوي. اکثره دا په
سمون لنډيزونو
کې د
انټر ويکي
لینکونو د بدلون ښودلو لپاره کارول کېږي. د ټولو ژبو د کوډونو بشپړ لړ لپاره وګورئ:
ISO 639
، او د ټولو ويکيپېډياوو بشپړ لړ لپاره وګورئ:
m:Complete list of language Wikipedias available
کرکټر ø کله ناکله په
سمون لنډيزونو
کې د
null edit
ښودلو لپاره کارول کېږي.
!=
"برابر نه دی". دا کارول د
relationa operator
څخه اخیستل شوي، چې په ځینو پروګرامنګ ژبو لکه C کې کارېږي.
!vote
لوستل کېږي "نه-رأيه" (په ډېرو پروګرامنګ ژبو کې د حیرانتیا نښه 'نه' معنا لري). داسې څه چې د رأيې په څېر ښکاري خو په اصل کې رأيه نه ګڼل کېږي. اصطلاح
!vote
لږ طنزي معنا لري.
همدارنګه وګورئ:
Wikipedia:Discuss, don't vote
0–9
1RR
دا د يوې خوښي يا تحميلي (کله ناکله د
ArbCom
له خوا)
بېرته راوړلو
قاعده ده.
همدارنګه وګورئ:
Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary#One-revert rule
2RR
دا د دوه بېرته راوړلو قاعده ده،ستاسو په خوښه يا تحميلي توګه عملي کېږي.
3RR
درې-بېرته راوړلو قاعده
لنډون.
0RR
دا د صفر بېرته راوړلو قاعده ده، ستاسو په خوښه يا تحميلي توګه عملي کېږي.
همدارنګه وګورئ:
Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary#Zero-revert rule
Abcdise, ABCDise, Abcdize, ABCDize
دا اصطلاح کله ناکله په
سمون لنډيزونو
کې کارول کېږي، تر څو څرګنده کړي چې سمون د لیست یا نورو توکو د الفبا ترتیب لپاره شوی دی.
پازوال
يو
پازوال
هغه کارن دی چې د يو شمېر اضافي تخنيکي اسانتياوو څخه برخمن وي او په ويکيپېډيا کې د ليکنو "ساتندوی" ګڼل کېږي. د پازوال دندو کې عموماً شامل دي: مخونه خوندي کول، ځينې مخونه ړنګول، او پر ورانکارو او ستونزمنو کاروونکو بنديزونه لګول.
AfC, AFC
The
Wikipedia:Articles for creation
page where unregistered contributors can post details of articles they want created. Only relevant while article creation by unregistered users is disabled.
AfD, AFD
The
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
page. The AfD of an article refers to the discussion wherein Wikipedians consider whether an article should be kept or deleted.
See also
Wikipedia:Guide to deletion
for explanation of some terms used on AfD.
AGF
Abbreviation for "
assume good faith
", a guideline whereby one should not assume that an unwanted or disputed edit was done maliciously.
See also
Wikipedia:Assume good faith
, and
Hanlon's razor
AIV
Abbreviation for "
Administrator intervention against vandalism
", a place and procedure for notifying
Wikipedia administrators
about chronic vandalism.
See also
Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
AMA
Abbreviation for "
Association of Members' Advocates
", an advocacy scheme by and for Wikipedians. It failed to achieve widespread acceptance and was closed down.
AN
Abbreviation for "
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
", a discussion location for
Wikipedia administrators
Anchor
An
HTML
term for code that lets you link to a specific point in a page, using the "#" character. You can use them to link to a
section
of a page, e.g.,
Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs
ANI
Abbreviation for "
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
", where
Wikipedia administrators
discuss issues which may or may not need urgent administrator attention
Anon
Abbreviation for "anonymous user". As a user does not necessarily lose his or her anonimity by registering or logging in, this term should be avoided.
See also
IP user
AOTW, AotW
Abbreviation of
Wikipedia:Article of the week
, the former appellation of
Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week
ArbCom, Arbcom, ARBCOM
Abbreviation for
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
Arbitration
The final step in the
dispute resolution
process.
See also
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
خونديځ
subpage
of a
Talk page
to which some parts of the discussion are transferred, to reduce the size of the Talk page. Rarely, the term may refer to the
Wikipedia:Historical archive
page, for outdated historical material.
See also:
Help:Archiving a talk page
Armwaving
Same as
Handwaving
ليکنه
په پوهنغونډ کې يو خوندي شوی متن. په دې پوهنغونډ کې هره ليکنه يو ځانگړی مخ دی، خو دلته داسې مخونه هم شته چې مقالې يا ليکنې په توگه نه دي، لکه همدا ليکنه.
ويکيپېډيا:يوه ليکنه څه ده
هم وګورئ.
Astroturf
Used only as a verb,
astroturfing
refers to attempts at creating the impression of a
grassroots
movement by the use of
sock puppets and meat puppets
to make an idea, poll, article, or deletion discussion seem to have more support than it actually has; alternately, the practice of making entries on sites such as Wikipedia to make an idea seem to have more support. In effect, a technique for "stacking the deck".
Autoconfirm
newly registered user
is still subject to some of the same restrictions as anonymous users – for example, inability to move articles or edit semi-protected pages, although some restrictions, such as the restriction on anonymous users creating pages, are lifted. When a user is autoconfirmed, these restrictions end. Currently, a new user must make ten edits and wait four days to be autoconfirmed.
Autofellatio
In the outside world, "Autofellatio" means just what
the article
says. On Wikipedia, Autofellatio is connected to several issues, including censorship (by removing a photograph of the act that used to be on there) and vandalism (by inserting said photograph into user pages) and trolling (by igniting flamewars for or against the inclusion of said photograph). Because of this, and the term's otherwise obscurity, Autofellatio has become an internal Wikipedian
meme
WP:BAD
See
BJAODN
Bad faith nomination
A bad faith nomination is the nomination of a page, or more pages (usually for deletion at
AFD
) for disingenuous reasons such as
making a point
or
vandalism
بنديز
بنديز هغه وروستۍ، نهايي اقدام دی چې د يو کارن د ويکيپېډيا د سمون کولو مخه د يو ټاکلي وخت لپاره نيول کېږي، چې وخت يې محدود يا نامحدود کېدای شي. د بنديز معمول علتونه عبارت دي له: د اوږدې مودې لپاره د نظره لرونکو سمونونو کول (د
بېطرفۍ د اصولو
سرغړونه)، پرلهپسې ناسم يا مشکوک معلومات اضافه کول، له نورو سره د همکارۍ څخه انکار، يا شديد بېادبې او ګواښونه.
بند شوي کارنان لازمي نه دي چې بند يا بلاک شوي وي، خو بلاک يو له هغو لارو څخه دی چې د بنديز عملي کولو لپاره کارول کېږي. هر نوم يا IP چې د يوې داسې شخص سره تړاو لري، پرته له نورو دلیلونو هم بلاک کېدای شي. همدارنګه وګورئ:
بلاک
A banner is a template that is placed across the top of an article's talk page or at the top of a category to indicate
: بنديز هغه وروستۍ، نهايي اقدام دی چې د يو کارن د ويکيپېډيا د سمون کولو مخه د يو ټاکلي وخت لپاره نيول کېږي، چې وخت يې محدود يا نامحدود کېدای شي. د بنديز معمول علتونه عبارت دي له: د اوږدې مودې لپاره د نظره لرونکو سمونونو کول (د
بېطرفۍ د اصولو
سرغړونه)، پرلهپسې ناسم يا مشکوک معلومات اضافه کول، له نورو سره د همکارۍ څخه انکار، يا شديد بېادبې او ګواښونه.
بند شوي کارنان لازمي نه دي چې بند يا بلاک شوي وي، خو بلاک يو له هغو لارو څخه دی چې د بنديز عملي کولو لپاره کارول کېږي. هر نوم يا IP چې د يوې داسې شخص سره تړاو لري، پرته له نورو دلیلونو هم بلاک کېدای شي. همدارنګه وګورئ:
بلاک
bans
a troublesome editor.
Bar
placeholder name
. See
Foo
Barnstar
Barnstars
are a light-hearted system of awards given to Wikipedian editors by other editors to acknowledge good work or other positive contributions to Wikipedia. They take the form of an image posted to an editor's
talk page
, usually in the form of a five-pointed star. There is a wide variety of different types of barnstar, each indicating a different reason for the award having been given.
BASC
The
Ban Appeals Subcommittee
, where users can appeal against their ban (or long-term block) after all other appeal processes have failed for them.
Be Bold, be bold, BOLD, WP:BOLD
The exhortation that users should try to improve articles and fix mistakes themselves by editing, rather than complain about them. See
Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages
BEANS
Don't stuff beans up your nose
BJAODN
Abbreviation for
Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
, a now-inactive page. The verb,
BJAODNed
, refers to the act of something being posted on the page with that name, and was often used at Wikipedia namespace articles involving heavy user participation, such as the Reference desk or AfD/TfD pages.
Blanking
Removing all content from a page. Newcomers often do this accidentally. On the other hand, if blanking an article is done in bad faith, it is
vandalism
. If blanking is done to a vandalized brand-new page, it is maintenance, and the page will be deleted by an
administrator
within a few hours if no dispute arises. {{
Delete
}} should be added to the blanked page to draw attention to it, rather than just blanking it. Newcomers often mistake blanking for
deletion
Block
Action by a sysop, removing from a certain IP address or username the ability to edit Wikipedia. Usually done against addresses that have engaged in vandalism or against users who have been banned - see
Wikipedia:Blocking policy
. See also:
Ban
BLP
Abbreviation for
Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
— official Wikipedia policy, whereby articles about living people must be handled with great care.
Blue link, bluelink
wikilink
to an article that already exists shows up blue (or purple if it has been recently visited by that reader/editor).
See also
Sea of blue
red link
Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery
Boilerplate text
A standard message which can be added to an article using a
template
. For example, {{
stub
}} is expanded to the following:
This article is a
stub
. You can
help
Wikipedia by
expanding it
See also
Wikipedia:Boilerplate text
, and
Boilerplate (text)
Bot
A program that automatically or semi-automatically adds or edits Wikipedia-pages.
See also
Wikipedia:Bots
Rambot
Vandalbot
Broken link
A link to a nonexistent page, usually colored
red
, depending on your settings.
See also
edit link
red link
Broken redirect
Redirect to a non-existing page. Common opinion is that these should be removed.
Bureaucrat
A Wikipedia Administrator who has been entrusted with promoting users to sysops.
See also
Crat
Wikipedia:Bureaucrats
BURO
NOT:Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy
Cabal
Sometimes assumed to be a secretive organization responsible for the development of Wikipedia, the word is usually used as a sarcastic hint to
lighten up
when discussions seem to become a little too paranoid. Discussions involving the term may have links to
POV / NPOV
issues,
admin
problems, or pretty much anything to do with the foundation of Wikipedia. The term
TINC
("There Is No Cabal") is occasionally encountered, used humorously in such a way as to suggest that maybe there is a cabal after all. The term is comparable to the use of the term
SMOF
in science fiction fandom.
Compare
Troll
. See also
m:Cabal
There Is No Cabal
Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal
Canvassing
Canvassing is sending messages to multiple Wikipedians with the intent to inform them about a community discussion. Under certain conditions, canvassing is acceptable to notify other editors of ongoing discussions (see
Friendly messages
), but inappropriate messages, written to influence the outcome rather than to improve the quality of a discussion, are considered disruptive since they compromise the consensus building process. See
Wikipedia:Canvassing
Cat, cat.
"وېشنيزه" يا "په وېشنيزو وېشل". د جمع په بڼه "وېشنيزې".
وېشنيزه
يوه وېشنيزه د مخونو يو غونډ دی چې په اتوماتيک ډول د ويکيپېډيا د پالنگر لخوا د ويکيپېډيا د ليکنو د ټکټونو د شننې وروسته جوړېږي. Category tags are in the form
Category:Computers
. The part after the ":" is the name of the Category. Adding a category tag causes a link to the category and any super-categories to go to the bottom of the page. As stated, it also results in the page being added to the category listing. A list of basic categories to browse through can be found at
Category:Fundamental
, though a more user-friendly way to find a category is at
Wikipedia:Browse
Category declaration
A category name placed at the bottom of any page. Pages are made members of categories by the use of the category declarations. Some people refer to category declarations as category tags. A category declaration looks like [[category:foo bar]] where foo bar is the title of the category page.
CC-BY-SA
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
. Wikipedia's articles are released under this license.
See also
Wikipedia:Copyrights
CDT
Current date and time
CE
Copy-edit
CfD, CFD
The
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion
page (previously known as
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion
CFM
Category for merging
CfR
Category for renaming
Chatty
A term used for articles which seem to present their content in the manner of a casual conversation with the reader. Chatty articles may need
cleanup
Checkuser
An access level with which a user can see the IP addresses of logged-in users, usually to determine if someone is using
sockpuppets
to violate policy. Currently only granted to certain members of the
Arbitration Committee
and other trusted users.
See also
m:checkuser
Child
subpage
or (more often)
subcategory
. Compare
Parent
CIVIL
Civility
CLS
Cats, lists, boxes
Cleanup
The process of repairing articles that contain errors of grammar, are poorly formatted, or contain irrelevant material. Cleanup generally requires only editing skills, as opposed to the specialized knowledge that is more often called for by
pages needing attention
See also:
Wikipedia:Cleanup process
Climbing the Reichstag
A humorous way of indicating that an editor has over-reacted during an argument such as an edit-war in order to gain some advantage. This has similar consequences to - and is as unwelcome as -
WP:POINT
(qv).
See also:
Activities of "Fathers for Justice"
Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
CNR
Same as
XNR
COI
Acronym for
Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
COIN
Acronym for
Wikipedia:Conflict of interest noticeboard
Comment out
To hide from normal display whilst retaining the material for editors to see. This is done by inserting the characters at the end. These character strings are used to delimit comments in HTML code.
Community Portal
One of Wikipedia's main pages. It can often be found on the sidebar (on the left side in most skins), and is a page that lists the collaboration of the week, outstanding tasks that need to be addressed, and several other useful bits of information and resources. The Community Portal is useful for picking an article or topic to work on or read.
Consensus WP
CON
The mechanism by which all decisions on Wikipedia are nominally made. Not the same as a "majority vote". See
Wikipedia:Consensus
for more information.
Contribs
Short for contributions. A user has made these edits.
Contributor
See
Editor
Convenience links
Links to unofficial copies of reliable sources (not to the original publisher) in addition to a formal citation of the reliable source. Has the advantage over books, paid websites, and websites that need registration of easy accessibility. Sometimes disputed because of violations of copyright, linking to partisan websites, possible distortions or those reliable sources, or because it may contain comments on the reputable sources that other editors do not like. See
Wikipedia:convenience links
Copyedit
A change to an article that only affects formatting, grammar, and other presentational aspects.
See also
Copyedit
and
Wikipedia:How to copy-edit
Copyvio, CopyVio, copy vio, copyviol
violation. Usually used in an edit summary when deleting copyrighted material added without complying with Wikipedia copyright verification procedures.
See also
CV
Wikipedia:Copyrights
COTW
Collaboration of the week
, an article needing improvement that is selected by vote to be the subject of widespread cooperative editing for a week.
'Crat
Short for
Bureaucrat
, used only occasionally.
Cross-namespace redirects
redirect
which links from one type of
namespace
to another. Examples include words in the article namespace which redirect to project pages in the Wikipedia namespace. Although they are not considered standard practice, some are created to facilitate searching, especially for new users.
See also
XNR
CNR
Wikipedia:Namespace
and
Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects
(essay).
Cruft
A term used to describe an article or group of articles that are too focused on a specific topic, covering it in too much detail for a general encyclopedia. The term is often used as a suffix for terms such as
Pokécruft
Pokémon
-cruft) and
Roadcruft
(cruft articles about roads). Cruft articles are often on topics such as minor characters from television series, or very specific lists of songs (such as "List of songs which includes the word 'death' in the lyrics"). Cruft is often deleted or merged into other articles by the Wikipedia community.
CSB
WikiProject Countering systemic bias
or, more rarely, an adjective for a topic of concern to the WikiProject, e.g., "This does not seem to be a CSB article." Systemic bias is the tendency for Wikipedia articles to be biased towards a European or American view of things, simply because most editors are European or American.
CSD
Criteria for speedy deletion
, a policy detailing the circumstances when articles etc. can be removed from Wikipedia without discussion. Also lists the templates needed to nominate something for speedy deletion.
Cut-and-paste move, cut and paste move, cut 'n' paste move, cut-n-paste move, etc.
Moving a page by taking the text of the page, and putting it into the edit window for the second page. Generally considered worse than the 'move page' option, because it splits the page and its edit history. Cut and paste moves can be fixed by administrators.
See also
Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves
CV, cv
Abbreviation of
Copyvio
CVG
Computer and video games
Dab, WP:D
Abbreviation of
Disambiguation
(or disambiguate[d]) (from the
Wikipedia:Disambiguation
shortcut
WP:DAB
).
Dablink, DAB link, etc.
1. Abbreviation of "disambiguation link"; a link that leads to a
disambiguation page
2. To
disambiguate
link
within the text of a page
3. A link at the top of an article to one or more other articles with similar titles (a
hatnote
), or the addition of such
DAB page, dab page
Same as
disambiguation page
Data dump
To import material from outside sources into Wikipedia without editing, formatting and linking (
Wikifying
). This is frowned upon by most
Wikipedians
, and is often a
copyvio
Db, DB
1. An abbreviation for "delete because". Almost all
templates
that are used to
request speedy deletion
according to
the procedure
have this prefix (e.g., {{
db-advert
}}, {{
db-nonsense
}}, {{
db-band
}}.
See also
Speedy
2. Wikipedia's
database
Dead-end page
Page that has no links to existing other pages, except interlanguage links.
Special:Deadendpages
lists them, but this function is disabled in some Wikimedia projects for performance reasons.
De-admin
See
De-sysop
De-bold
To remove a phrase's bold typeface, because it is not the first reference to the title or a synonym of the topic (which should be bold), or that it is not the topic of the article at all. Common situations when one would de-bold include: bold foreign words (should instead be italicized) and bold Wikilinks (which, according to current
Manual of Style
, should be plain).
See also
un-bold
Deletionist
Someone who actively attempts to delete pages that others prefer to keep. Deletionism is the idea that Wikipedia should follow the same rules for inclusion as existing paper encyclopedias (mostly
Encyclopedia Britannica
). Often used as a derogatory term. The term 'inclusionist' for the opposite party is less used.
See also
m:deletionism
m:inclusionism
, and
Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia
Deorphan, De-orphan
To make a page no longer an
orphan
. 'See also
Wikipedia:Orphan
Deprecated
1. Techie-speak for "tolerated in or supported by a system but not recommended (i.e., beware: may well be on the way out)".
2. The term is also used to refer to pages, templates or categories that have been
orphaned
or are no longer used.
3. In non-technical English, the word means, "deplored or strongly disapproved of".
De-sysop
Take away someone's sysop status.
Used very rarely
, in cases where someone has voluntarily elected to resign such status, or is judged to have
misused their sysop powers
See also
de-admin
Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship
Developer, dev
Usually capitalized. A user who can make direct changes to Wikipedia's underlying software and possibly also the database, often being one of the
MediaWiki
developers
(see next definition)
or other
Wikimedia Foundation
technicians. Technically, it is the highest user access level, but Developer privileges are generally only used at request. Sometimes referred to by other terms such as "system administrators" or "sysadmins", to distinguish from MediaWiki developers.
See also
m:Developers
for a list of developers and further information.
Usually not capitalized. One of the developers of the
MediaWiki
software; often but not always a Wikipedia Developer
(in the above sense)
De-wikify, dewikify
To remove (de-link) some of the
wikification
of an article. This can be done to remove
self-references
or excessive common-noun wikification (also known as the
sea of blue
effect).
Dicdef, dictdef, dic def, dic-def
Short for a dictionary definition. This term is commonly used on
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
when referring to an article that is more similar to a dictionary article than an encyclopedia one. Usually a reason for transwikifying to
Wiktionary
See also
Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary
Diff
The difference between two versions of page, as displayed using the
Page history
feature, or from
Recent Changes
. The versions to compare are encoded in the
URL
, so you can make a link by copying and pasting it - for instance when discussing a change on an article's talk page.
See also
m:Help:Diff
Disambiguation, disambig
The process of resolving the conflict that occurs when articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title.
See also
dab
Wikipedia:Disambiguation
Disambiguation page, DAB page, dab page
A page that contains various meanings of a word, and refers to the pages where the various meanings are defined. In cases when there is a prevailing meaning of the term, disambiguation pages are named "subject (disambiguation)".
Double redirect
redirect
which leads to another redirect. Counterintuitively, this will not bring one to the final destination, so it needs to be eliminated by linking directly to the target redirect. Double redirects are generated when moving a page that has redirects leading to it.
See also
Repoint
Dupe
Short for a duplicate article. Often used when identifying a duplicate page that needs to be
merged
with another.
DYK
An abbreviation for
Template:Did you know
EC, ec, e.c., Ec, (e/c), etc.
Same as
Edit conflict
Edit conflict
Also, rarely "edconf". Appears if an edit is made to the page between when one opens it for editing and completes the edit. The later edit does not take effect, but the editor is prompted to merge their edit with the earlier one. Edit conflicts should not be confused with
edit wars
See also
Wikipedia:Edit conflicts
Editcountitis
A humorous term for having an unhealthy obsession with the number of edits that a person makes to Wikipedia, usually applied to one trying to make as many edits as possible. Often cited on
Requests for Adminship
regarding people who judge people on sheer edit count rather than personal merit.
See also
Wikipedia:Editcountitis
Edit creep, editcreep, edit-creep
The tendency for high quality articles to degrade over time. Articles usually achieve
good article
or
featured article
recognition because a small core of people knew the subject well and researched it carefully. Subsequently, new readers continue to alter the page. The average contribution may weaken the piece through bad copyediting, poor syntax, recitation of popular misconceptions, or giving undue weight to a subordinate topic.
(By way of analogy to
scope creep
.)
Edit link
See
Broken link
Edit summary
The contents of the "Summary:" field below the edit box on the "Edit this page" page.
See also
Wikipedia:Edit summary
Editor
Anyone who writes or modifies articles in a Wikipedia. That includes you.
See also
contributor
user
Edit war
Two or more parties continually making their preferred changes to a page, each persistently undoing the changes made by the opposite party. Generally, an edit war is the result of an argument on a talk page that could not be resolved. Edit wars are forbidden and lead to blocks.
See also
Revert war
Wheel war
Wikipedia:Edit war
Wikipedia:Three revert rule
Emphazi
See
Suitly Emphazi
Eponymous
An eponymous category is a category that has the same name as an article and vice versa. For example
George W. Bush
and the eponymous
Category:George W. Bush
See also
key article
Esperanzify
Motion to close a process or other "Wikipedia:" namespace page by preserving the page itself,
tagging it historical
(and adding explanation on why the page was closed), and redirecting (or deleting) subpages. This is the solution that was implemented to close
Wikipedia:Esperanza
, a goodwill "club" that was shut down.
External link, ext. ln., extlink, ext lk, etc.
A link to a website not owned by
Wikimedia
. The alternatives are an
internal link
wikilink
or
free link
within Wikipedia, and an
interwiki link
to a sister project.
See also
Wikipedia:External links
Wikipedia:Spam
FA
Featured article
, an article that has been selected as representing "the best of Wikipedia". Articles become featured articles when a
FAC
gets consensus for promotion.
FAC
Featured article candidate
, an article that has been proposed for consideration to be
featured
as one of the best in Wikipedia.
Fancruft
See
Cruft
FARC
Featured article removal candidate
, a
featured article
whose "featured" status is considered for removal, either because the featured article criteria or the article itself changed.
FfD, FFD, IfD, IFD
An abbreviation for
Files for deletion
(previously Images and media for deletion).
FIST
Free Image Search Tool
, which will look for free images for articles, either manually listed or by category
Float, floating
To add coding to a template, image, or other feature so that it appears in a specific position on the page.
See
Wikipedia:Picture tutorial#Thumbnails
Help:Table#Floating table
, and
Help:Section#Floating the TOC
for examples.
Foo
placeholder name
, used to provide a generic example. Thus, "an article on the culture of Foo", means "an article on the culture of any of the places under discussion, or any that it may also apply to". When two placeholders are required, Bar is usually used as the second (e.g., "an article on the Foo of Bar").
See also
Foobar
Forest fire
flame war
which spreads, seemingly uncontrollably, beyond the pages where it began into unrelated articles' talk pages. A forest fire becomes progressively more difficult for any user to keep track of. On Wikipedia, this is less of a problem than on other
wiki
s, due to well-established boundaries for
user conduct
, clear guidelines for
article content
, and a formal
dispute resolution process
See also
wildfire
and
MeatBall:ForestFire
Fork
A splitting of an entity to satisfy different groups of people - in Wikipedia, this can either mean a project-wide split, in which a group of users decides to take a project database and continue with it on their own site (which is perfectly legal under the
GFDL
, and one of an editor's least disputed
rights
), or the split of an article, usually to accommodate different
POVs
. The latter is often called a
POV fork
and generally regarded as highly undesirable.
FP
Featured pictures
, a picture that has been selected as representing "the best of Wikipedia". Pictures become featured pictures when a
FPC
gets consensus for promotion.
FPC
Featured picture candidate
, a picture that has been proposed for consideration to be
featured
as one of the best in Wikipedia.
Free link
A link pointing to another page within Wikipedia or its sister projects by using the wiki markup double square-brackets "[[" and "]]". Sometimes they are referred to as
wikilink
s or
internal link
s. Unless otherwise specified in a user's monobook.css, these links usually show up as
blue
if they are working and you haven't visited them before,
red
if they are broken, and
purple
if they are working and you have visited them before; note that they do not have the arrow symbol characteristic of an external link.
Friendly notices
A contributor who sends friendly notices as a means of
canvassing
appropriately must ensure that these
neutrally
worded notifications are sent to a small number of editors, intending to improve rather than to influence a discussion and while avoiding
excessive cross-posting
. See
Wikipedia:Canvassing
GA
Good article
Gadget
gadget
is a JavaScript tool that can be enabled from your Wikipedia preferences.
Gdanzig
An edit war over which of several possible names should be used for a place. The word is a portmanteau of
Gdańsk
and
Danzig
, the two names about which a venerable edit war ensued. See
Talk:Gdansk/Vote
Geogre's Law
A law attributed to
User:Geogre
(although he may not have been the first person, and has certainly not been the only person, to observe this correlation), and most frequently referred to in
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
. Paraphrased, the law states that there exists a strong
correlation
between the lack of proper capitalization of a person's name in the title of a biographical article, and the failure of the subject of that article to satisfy the
criteria for inclusion of biographies
GFDL
GNU Free Documentation License
. Many of Wikipedia's articles are released under this license.
See also
Wikipedia:Copyrights
GFE
good faith
edit
A good faith editor.
See also
giffee
Ghits, G-hits, GHits
"Google hits" - the number of successful searches for a particular word or phrase using the
Google
search engine. Sometimes used as a very rough assessment of notability on
AFD
. See also
Google test
Giffee
Same as
GFE
, definition 2.
Godwin's Law
Godwin's Law
is particularly concerned with logical fallacies such as
reductio ad Hitlerum
, wherein an idea is unduly dismissed or rejected on the ground of it being associated with persons generally considered "evil". Godwin's Law is: "As an online discussion grows longer, the
probability
of a comparison involving
Nazis
or
Hitler
approaches 1." It is often cited as soon as it occurs as a flag that discussions have gone on too long or gotten out of hand on a particular topic.
Google test
Running sections or titles of articles through the
Google
search engine for various purposes. The four most common are to check for copyright violations, to determine which term among several is the most widely used, to decide whether a person is sufficiently notable to warrant an article and to check whether a questionable and obscure topic is real (as opposed to the idiosyncratic invention of a particular individual).
See also
Ghits
Wikipedia:Google test
GPL
GNU General Public License
Wikipedia's software
is released under this license.
gr
Grammar, used in edit summaries to indicate that a grammar problem is being corrected
Hagiography
Wording that is excessively fulsome, adulatory or glowing in a biographical article, to the point of violating
NPOV
. See
Hagiography
Handwaving, armwaving
An assertion not supported by evidence; most frequently seen in
articles for deletion
discussions, when editors may assert that a subject is
notable
, but fail to make a convincing case. Such arguments are usually given less weight.
See also
Handwave
Hatnote
A short note placed at the top of an article before the primary topic.
See also
Wikipedia:Hatnote
History
All previous versions of an article, from its creation to its current state. Also called
page history
See also:
Help:Page history
Hopelessly POV
Describing an article which, in the opinion of some Wikipedians, is so closely tied to a particular point of view as to be inherently in violation of
Wikipedia policy
and unable to be made neutral. Other Wikipedians consider the accusation "hopelessly POV" as being merely an excuse to suppress certain points of view.
IANAL, IANaL
An abbreviation for "I Am Not a Lawyer", indicating that an editor is about to give their opinion on a legal matter as they understand it, although they are not professionally qualified to do so, and may not fully understand the law in question. May be generalized to other fields, e.g.,
IANAA
(administrator),
IANAD
(doctor).
ICBH
An abbreviation for I couldn't be happier.
FfD, FFD, IfD, IFD
An abbreviation for Images and media for deletion, the old name for
Files for deletion
Inclusionist
A user who is of the opinion that Wikipedia should contain as much information as possible, often regardless of presentation or notability. There are varying degrees of
Inclusionism
– radical Inclusionists vote "Keep" on every
AfD
they come across, while more moderate ones merely express their desire for a wide variety of topics to be covered, even if they do not fit the standard criteria for inclusion in an encyclopedia, or if the articles in question have quality problems.
Infobox
A consistently formatted table which is present in articles with a common subject. See
Wikipedia:Infobox
and
Wikipedia:Infobox templates
for a how-to guide.
See also:
taxobox
Internal link
See
free link
wikilink
Interwiki
A link to a sister project; this can be an
interlanguage link
to a corresponding article in a
different language
in Wikipedia, or a link to a project such as Wikibooks, Meta, etc.
IP, IP user, IP editor
Same as
anon
IPA
International Phonetic Alphabet
, widely used on Wikipedia to indicate pronunciation.
See also
Help:IPA
Help:IPA for English
, the more detailed
IPA chart for English dialects
, and
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation)
Isolated, isolated article
An
isolated article
is an article that cannot be reached via a series of links from the
Main Page
See also
Orphan
ITHAWO
I thought he already was one. Used about people listed in 'admin' requests.
ITN
An abbreviation for
Template:In the news
Janitor
See
Admin
Jimbo
Jimmy Wales
, co-founder of Wikipedia
Key article
A category's
eponymous
article, or any other article which deals directly with the subject of a category.
Kill / Kill with fire / Kill with a stick
Dysphemism
s for "deleting" a page, expressing some disgust for the existence of the page.
Language link
See
Interwiki
Laundry list
See
Wikipedia:Embedded list
and
Wikipedia:WikiProject Laundromat
Link
See
Help:Contents/Links
کينډۍ:Clarifyme
Link farm
Link farms are articles or sections of articles consisting entirely of external or internal links. Some pages consisting of internal links are acceptable (such as disambiguation pages and list articles); others are likely to be candidates for deletion, as are any consisting entirely of external links.
Link rot
Because websites change over time, many external links from Wikipedia to other sites cannot be guaranteed to remain active. When an article's links becomes outdated and no longer work, the article is said to have undergone
link rot
List
See
Wikipedia:Lists
Listify
To delete a category and turn the contents into a list. This is shorthand for saying that "this group of articles would be better if presented as a list, rather than as a category."
Lk
Landmarks: Major landmarks
On the
Recent changes
page,
(lower case, bold) indicates a
minor edit
Magic word, magicword, magic-word
a symbol recognized by the
MediaWiki
software and which when seen in the non-commented text of the page, triggers the software to do something other than display that symbol, or
transclude
a page with that name, but instead to use the symbol directly.
لومړی مخ
The page to which every user not specifying an article is redirected. The
Main Page
contains links to current events, presents certain articles (like a
featured article
of the day and links to Wikipedia's newest articles), and serves as an entry point to browsing all articles by topic or other classification. Links to sister projects and other-language Wikipedias are also a prominent feature on the Main Page. Due to its high exposure, all content on the Main Page is
protected
Mainspace
The main article
namespace
(i.e. not a talk page, not a "Wikipedia:" page, not a "User:" page, etc.)
Mastodon
Refers to the
fight or flight
reflex that sometimes happens while editing Wikipedia. Generally mentioned to request for calm. "Nobody ever got trampled to death because they were editing an encyclopedia." Frequently misspelled "mastadon".
See also the essay
no angry mastodons
MC
The Mediation Committee.
See
Wikipedia:Mediation Committee
Meat puppet
An account created only for the illegitimate strengthening of another user's position in votes or discussions. Unlike a
sock puppet
, the account is used by another person. Meat puppets are treated exactly like sock puppets in most cases, making the distinction between them largely academic.
MedCab, Medcab, MEDCAB
The Mediation Cabal.
See
Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal
MedCom, Medcom, MEDCOM
The Mediation Committee.
See
Wikipedia:Mediation Committee
Mediation
An attempt by a third party to resolve an edit war or other conflict between users. There exists a
Wikipedia:Mediation Committee
which can do so on a more or less official basis as the penultimate step in the
Wikipedia:dispute resolution
process, and a
Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal
which acts as an informal alternative.
See also:
Wikipedia:What is mediation?
Wikipedia:Mediation
MediaWiki
The software behind Wikipedia and its sister projects, as well as several projects not related to Wikimedia, and a namespace.
Contrast
Wikimedia
See also
Wikipedia:MediaWiki
Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace
Meh
Common edit summary used by many Wikipedians. Generally used for minor edits that no one is expected to care about. Also use (in edit summary or directly in talk page posts) in response to posts that the editor feels are uninteresting or pointless, or proposals not worth considering.
Merge
Taking the text of two pages, and turning it into a single page.
See
Help:Merging and moving pages
Mergist
A user who adheres to the principle of
Mergism
, which is a compromise between the
Inclusionist
and
Deletionist
principles. A Mergist is of the opinion that while many topics merit inclusion, not every topic deserves its own article, and tries to combine these "side" topics into longer, less specific articles.
Meta
A separate
wiki
[۱]
) used to discuss general Wikimedia matters. In the past, this has been called
Metapedia
Meta Wikipedia
Meta Wikimedia
, and many other combinations.
See also
Wikipedia:Meta
Meta page, meta-page
A page that provides information about Wikipedia. Meta pages are more correctly referred to as
project namespace
pages. Meta pages should not be confused with a page on Meta-Wikimedia.
See also
Wikipedia:Meta page
MfD, MFD
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion
Mirror
A website other than Wikipedia that uses content original to Wikipedia as a source for at least some of its content.
See also
Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks
Mop
A term used to refer to administrator duties (compare
Janitor
). Often seen in the phrase
to give someone a mop
(i.e., to make someone into an administrator).
MOS, MoS
Found in
edit summaries
to indicate that a change has been made to make an item comply with Wikipedia's standard writing style ("Manual of Style"). Often found in compound forms such as "MOSNUM" ("Manual of Style/Dates and numbers") and "MOSCAPS" ("Manual of Style/Capital letters").
See also
NC
Wikipedia:Manual of Style
Move
Changing the name and location of an article because of a misspelling, violation of naming convention, misnomer, or inaccuracy. Involves either renaming the page or moving it and constructing a redirect to keep the original link intact.
See also
Help:Renaming (moving) a page
On the
Recent changes
page,
(upper case, bold) indicates a new page or article.
N/a
An abbreviation for
new article
, often used in edit summaries. Easily confused with the common non-Wiki use, "not applicable" or "not available".
Namespace
A way to classify pages. Wikipedia has namespaces for encyclopedia articles, pages about Wikipedia (
project namespace
),
user pages
(User:), special pages (Special:),
template
pages (Template:), and
talk pages
(Talk:, Wikipedia talk:, and User talk:), among others.
See also
Wikipedia:Namespace
NC, NCs
Found in
edit summaries
to indicate that a change has been made to make an item comply with Wikipedia's standard naming conventions.
See also
MOS
Wikipedia:Article titles
Newbie test, noob test, newb test
An edit made by a newcomer to Wikipedia, just to see if "Edit this page"
really
does what it sounds like. Newcomers should use
Wikipedia:Sandbox
for this purpose.
See also
Wikipedia:Introduction
NN, nn
Found in comments at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
and in edit summaries, indicating that the article's subject is
not
notable
enough for a Wikipedia entry.
nom
Short for "nomination" or "nominator". Often found on deletion
process pages
as part of the phrase
Delete per nom
, indicating a voter's assent to and/or agreement with the main nomination for deletion.
NOR
The Wikipedia policy that
No Original Research
is allowed in citing sources in articles.
Notice board, noticeboard
A page that acts as a forum for a group of users, who use it to coordinate their editing. Most notice boards are by geographic location, like the
UK Wikipedians' notice board
; a notable exception is the
Administrators' noticeboard
NPOV, NPoV
Neutral point of view
, or the agreement to present possibly subjective content in an objective, neutral, and substantiated manner, so as not to cause edit wars between opposing sides. As a verb, to remove biased statements or slanted phrasing. As an adjective, it indicates that an article complies with Wikipedia's NPOV policy.
NPP
Wikipedia:New Pages Patrol
Null edit
A null edit is made when an editor opens the edit window of a document then re-saves the page without having made any text changes. This is sometimes done as a lazy way to
purge
– to update the functioning of templates (which require articles containing them to be edited in order for any changes to take effect). The term also applies to making a very small, non-substantive change (e.g., removing an unneeded blank line or adding one) in order to get the article history to register a change, for the purpose of leaving an edit summary that responds to a previous one.
Nupedia
A Wikipedia predecessor project that shut down in 2003. It is currently inactive and there are no plans to resurrect it.
See also:
Wikipedia:Nupedia and Wikipedia
OP
Abbreviation for
Original post
(or "Original poster").
Open tasks
template
(found at {{
opentask
}}) that lists several more or less janitorial tasks that are pending or needed. It is found on the
community portal
as well as on many
user pages
. The term is also occasionally used within individual WikiProjects to refer to work which has been discussed but which still needs to be completed.
Open Ticket Request System
Refers to the people and software that surround the handling of email sent to the
Wikimedia Foundation
Original post, original poster
In a
discussion thread
, refers to the topic/person/message which started the discussion. Depending on context, OP may stand for either "original post" (the message which started the thread), or "original poster" (the person who started the thread). Often used on Wikipedia's discussion pages and
Reference Desk
Original research
In Wikipedia,
original research
(sometimes abbreviated
OR
) is material added to articles that has not been published already by a reputable source. As an encyclopedia,
Wikipedia is not
the appropriate place to publish original research, nor can it be used for substantiation of article content.
Orphan, orphan article, orphaned article, orphan image, orphaned image
An
orphaned article
is an article with no links from other pages in the main article
namespace
. An
orphaned image
is an image with no links from any pages at all. You can view lists of
orphaned articles
and
images
وېشنيزه:Orphaned articles
contains orphaned articles organized by month.
See also
Wikipedia:Orphan
and
Wikiproject Orphanage
OTRS
Abbreviation for
Open Ticket Request System
See also
Wikipedia:Volunteer response team
Page
Any individual topic within Wikipedia; the
web page
without the top, bottom and sidebars. Pages include articles, stubs, redirects, disambiguation pages, user pages, talk pages, documentation and
special pages
Parent; Parent category
A larger, more general category of which the category under discussion is a subcategory (for example,
Category:Aquatic organisms
is a parent category of
Category:Fish
). Compare
Child
. See also
Help:Categorization
Patent nonsense
A humorous pejorative applied to articles that are either completely unintelligible or totally irrelevant. See
Wikipedia:Patent nonsense
Patrol
Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol
and/or
Wikipedia:New page patrol
. May also be used as a synonym for "review closely".
PD
Material not presently under copyright and thus available for use without permission.
Public domain
Peer Review
A request to have fellow Wikipedians review and help improve an article. Wikipedia has a page specifically for posting such a request and offering up your work for review. See
Wikipedia:Peer Review
Permastub
Any
stub
article which is unlikely to grow to a more respectable size; an article on a subject about which little can ever be written. These articles are often potential candidates for
merging
into larger articles.
Permcat
permanent
category
- that is, a category into which an article is assigned to aid reader navigation, as opposed to a temporary assignment relating to a process such as
cleanup
or
stub sorting
Per, per nom, per
A comment on a page such as
RFA
or
AFD
may be accompanied by the note "per nom", which means "for the reasons given by the nominator". Similarly, a comment may be noted "per X" where X is the name of one of the other commenters, or a reference to some page that explains the reasoning.
See also
Wikipedia:Per
Personal attack
A comment that is not directed at content, but rather insults, demeans or threatens another editor (or a group of editors) personally, with obvious malice. To maintain a friendly and productive atmosphere, personal attacks are forbidden per Wikipedia
policy
and may be grounds for
blocking
in serious and/or repeated cases.
See also:
Wikipedia:No personal attacks
Wikipedia:Remove personal attacks
Phase I
The
wiki software
UseModWiki
. Wikipedia used this software before January 25, 2002.
Phase II
The wiki software written by
User:Magnus Manske
and adopted by Wikipedia after
January 25
2002
Magnus Manske Day
).
Phase III
A rewritten and improved version of the Phase II software. It was eventually renamed to
MediaWiki
. Wikipedia currently uses MediaWiki version 1.46.0-wmf.24 (2e26129) (see also
Special:Version
).
See also
Wikipedia:MediaWiki
m:MediaWiki
Phase IV
A dream proposal for the next generation of Wikipedia software made back when complete rewrites were in vogue. Development is now focused on incremental progress.
See also
m:Wikipedia4
Pipe, Piped link
A link where the text displayed in the article is not the name of the link target. Such links are created using the
pipe character
"|" e.g., [[Target article|Displayed text]]. The
pipe trick
is a software feature that generates the displayed text for the editor in certain circumstances. Piped links may also be used to sort pages in categories by other than their name, e.g., if [[Category:Foo|Bar]] is placed on an article, the article will be listed alphabetically at "Bar" in category "Foo", irrespective of its title.
See also
Wikipedia:Piped link
Help:Pipe trick
, and
m:Help:Piped link#Automatic conversion of the wikitext
POINT, WP
POINT
"Thou shalt not deliberately skew any page, nor create or nominate for deletion any page, nor in any other way vandalize Wikipedia, in order to try to prove your point!".
See also
Wikipedia:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
Pokémon test
A heuristic for assessing the relevance or legitimacy of prospective article topics, which holds that any topic more notable than the most obscure species of Pokémon may deserve a Wikipedia article.
See also
Wikipedia:Pokémon test
Portal
Portal
POTD, PotD
Picture of the day
POV, PoV
Point of view
. Originally referred to each of many perspectives on an issue, which may need to be considered and balanced in an encyclopedic article. Today, more often used as a synonym for "
bias
ed", as in "That reply was POV, not neutral".
POV warrior, PoV warrior
An editor who aggressively distorts coverage of certain topics to suit his/her biases despite community norms of neutrality and the Wikipedia policy of
NPOV
Prejudice
As in,
"delete without prejudice"
and variations, based on the
legal term
. Deletion without prejudice indicates that there is a problem with the present version of the article (e.g., lack of sources) and that recreation of the article is viable if that problem is fixed. Deletion
with
prejudice indicates that there's a problem with the subject of the article, and that it should not be recreated in any form (although
deletion review
can overturn this).
Process page
wikispace
page dedicated to discussion and (usually) voting on specific pages or users, or for similar administrative reasons. Examples include
CFD
RFA
, and
AFD
Prod
Proposed deletion
. A process by which articles that do not qualify for
speedy deletion
but are able to be uncontroversially deleted can be removed from Wikipedia without going through a full
AfD
process. Can be used as both a noun and a verb (
To prod an article
).
See also
Wikipedia:Guide to deletion
Project namespace
The
project namespace
is a
namespace
dedicated to providing information about Wikipedia. Pages in the project namespace always start with "Wikipedia:".
Proseline
From "prose" and "timeline": chronological list of events narrated in a prose form, usually a lot of paragraphs that begin with a date or time ("On January 21, 2008, 'proseline' was added to the Wikipedia glossary page..."). Usually occurs in articles about ongoing events where editors are adding information as it becomes available. Generally seen as bad style that should be avoided.
See also
Wikipedia:Proseline
Protected page
This term indicates a page that cannot be edited except by administrators, or in some cases, established users. Usually this is done to cool down an edit war.
See also
Wikipedia:This page is protected
Protologism
A word that is created and used in the hope that it will become widely used and an accepted part of the language. A successful protologism becomes a
neologism
. The term protologism has been adopted as
jargon
for use within
Wiki communities
, but is not in common usage outside this context. "Protologism" itself can be considered either a protologism or neologism. Coined by
Mikhail Epstein
from Greek
protos
, first + Greek
logos
, word.
See also
protologism
and
list of protologisms
The Pump
A nickname for
Wikipedia:Village pump
See also
VP
Quarto
Wikimedia Quarto
is a multilingual quarterly newsletter published by the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. It can be read online
here
RA
Wikipedia:Requested articles
, a place to ask people to create articles that should exist but do not.
Random page
The Random page link is on the left of each page for most
skins
. It will take you to a Wikipedia article that is chosen by a computer algorithm without any deliberate pattern or meaning to the choice.
RC
An abbreviation for
Recent changes
RC Patrol
A group of volunteer editors who examine
Recent changes
logs for vandalism and other undesirable edits.
Reader-facing template
See:
Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
کينډۍ:Clarifyme
Re-creation
A posting of the same or substantially the same text as a deleted article by a new user, or of the same text or different text of a deleted article by the original creator. Sometimes misspelled "recreation".
Recent changes
A dynamically generated page (found at
Special:Recentchanges
) that lists all edits in descending chronological order. Sometimes abbreviated as RC. Recent changes are checked regularly by editors doing
RC patrol
, which means checking all suspicious edits to catch
vandalism
as early as possible. Other ways of watching recent changes are the
Recentchanges IRC channel
, or
CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter
, which announce changes in realtime.
Redirect, redir
A page title which, when requested, merely sends the reader to another page. This is used for synonyms and ease of linking. For example,
impressionist
might redirect to
impressionism
See also
Wikipedia:Redirect
Red link, redlink
wikilink
to an article that does not exist shows up red.
See also
blue link
Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery
Refactor
To restructure a document, usually applied to the ordering and summarizing of
talk pages
See also:
Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages
Reincarnation
A new user account created by a
banned
user to evade the
block
. See
sock puppet
Render
In the context of the World Wide Web,
rendering
is the operation performed by the user's browser of converting the Web document (in
HTML
XML
, etc. plus image and other included files) into the visible page on the user's screen.
Repoint, re-point
To change the destination article of a
redirect
, either to avoid a
double redirect
or to change the redirect so that it leads to a more appropriate article. The term
retarget
is also frequently used.
Rescope, re-scope
To change the subject matter of an article, a template or – most frequently – a category to one that is more acceptable for editorial or encyclopedic purposes. If by doing so the subject area is broadened, the term
upscope
is sometimes used.
Retarget, re-target
See
Repoint
Revert
An edit that reverses edits made by someone else, thus restoring the prior version.
See also
Wikipedia:Revert
Revert war
See
Edit war
RfA, RFA
Can mean
Wikipedia:Requests for adminship
or (rarely)
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration
, depending on the context. The latter is frequently abbreviated
RfAr
to avoid the ambiguity.
RfA Cliché #1
Sometimes used in support at
Wikipedia:Requests for adminship
, to indicate that one thought the candidate already was an admin. See also
ITHAWO
RfAr, RFAR
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration
RfC, RFC
Wikipedia:Requests for comment
, part of the
dispute resolution
process. A request for comment is an informal process for soliciting input from Wikipedians about a question of article content or a user's conduct.
RfD, RFD
The
Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion
page.
RfM, RFM
Request for
mediation
, part of the
dispute resolution
process.
See also:
Wikipedia:Requests for mediation
Rm
Remove. Used in edit summaries to indicate that a particular piece of text or formatting has been deleted.
Rmv
1. Remove (
Rm
) vandalism. Used in edit summaries when good edits were made after vandalism, requiring the editor to sort out the vandalism, as opposed to a simple reversion.
See also
rvv
2.
Same as
Rm
Rogue admin
Accusatory term for a Wikipedia
administrator
, suggesting that the accused person systematically abuses their administrative access. Such accusations are rarely found to be justified or particularly productive.
See also
rouge admin
Rollback
To change a page back to the version before the last edit. Sysops and
rollbackers
have special tools to do this more easily. See
Wikipedia:Rollback feature
Rollbacker
A class of users who can use the
#Rollback#rollback
feature. This feature is automatically enabled for all administrators.
Rouge admin
A misspelling of "
rogue admin
" occasionally used by vandals and trolls. Now used jokingly by many Wikipedia administrators, usually to describe themselves performing actions that the affected users may not like (such as blocking vandals and deleting bogus pages).
RS
Wikipedia:Reliable sources
– a guideline that articles should be based on reliable published sources.
Rv
Revert
An edit summary indicating that the page has been reverted to a previous version, often because of
vandalism
See also
Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version
Rvt
Same as
Rv
Rvv
Revert
of vandalism.
See also
Rv
s/
word1
word2
Replace
word1
with
word2
. Used in edit summaries. It is a reference to the command for "find and replace" in languages such as
sed
and
Perl
. "s/
word1
word2
/" means "replace all occurrences of
word1
with
word2
" (
stands for "substitute").
Salt
(from "
salt the earth
") To delete an article and protect it against recreation. This is done when unwanted articles are repeatedly recreated.
Sandbox
sandbox
is a page that users may edit however they want. Though it is meant to help users experiment and gain familiarity with
Wiki markup
, the public sandbox at
Wikipedia:Sandbox
is often filled with strange things and
patent nonsense
. In addition to the public sandbox, users may create private sandboxes on
subpages
of their
user page
Scap
A scap occurs when
MediaWiki
, the software that runs Wikipedia, is updated. Scap stands for "
sync-common-all-php
", the internal script used to deploy the update.
Sea of blue
The hard-to-read effect of far too many
blue links
in an article, caused by over-
wikilinking
See also
De-wikify
Section editing
Using one of the '[edit]' links to the right of each section's title, one can get an edit window containing only the section of the page that's
below
the [edit] link. This makes it easier to find the exact spot where one wants to edit, and helps you avoid an
edit conflict
. You can turn section editing off in your
preferences
under the "Enable section editing via [edit] links" option.
Self-link
A Wikilink contained in an article that points the reader to that same article, e.g., linking
Vice President
in the article "
Vice President
". Such links are automatically displayed as
strongly emphasized text
rather than links, but the more complex case of a link which
redirects
to the same article is not, and should be de-
wikified
Self-ref, selfref, self-ref
When used in terms like "no self-refs", this refers to the guideline
Wikipedia:Self-references to avoid
whereby articles should generally not refer to the Wikipedia project directly or implicitly. Self-ref can also refer to the template
{{selfref}}
Self-revert
An editor self-reverts when he or she
reverts
or undoes an edit that he or she had previously made. This may be because the editor was merely making a test, or because the editor later realised his or her edit was faulty, or because he or she wishes to show good faith after a
three-revert rule
violation.
See
Revert
SfD, SFD
The
Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion
page.
Sharpen cat
To place an article within a more specific category, e.g., placing a biography article from
Category:Kenya
into
Category:Kenyan people
. In addition,
sh cat
in edit summaries.
Sheep vote
A vote on Wikipedia that seems to be cast just to go along with the flow. E.g., on
RfA
, this can typically be a vote such as "
Support
because x, y, and z are supporting." The opposite is called a
wolf vote
Shortcut
redirect
used within
Wikispace
to enable editors to get to a project page more quickly.
See also
Wikipedia:Shortcut
for the policy on these redirects, and
Wikipedia:List of shortcuts
for a complete list.
Skin
The appearance theme in
Special:Preferences
. Currently, nine are available: Chick, Classic, Cologne Blue, Monobook, Modern, MySkin, Nostalgia, Simple, and Vector.
SME
An acronym for
subject matter expert
Smerge
A contraction of "slight
merge
" or "selective merge", sometimes used in
Articles for deletion
discussions. This is for when a topic deserves mention in another article, but not to the extent and detail that is already included (a partial
merge and redirect
).
Snap
Retarget
a double redirect to point to the ultimate target.
SNG
A Subject specific Notability Guideline, see
Category:Wikipedia notability guidelines
Snowball clause
Sometimes entries on
process pages
are closed early when it becomes obvious that they have "a snowball's chance in Hell" of passing the process. This removal is "per the Snowball clause". The verb "snowballing" is sometimes used for this action.
See also
Wikipedia:Snowball clause
Sock puppet, sock
Another user account created secretly by an existing Wikipedian, generally to manufacture the illusion of support in a vote or argument. Also, particularly on
AfD
, a friend of an existing Wikipedian who has created an account solely for the purpose of supporting that Wikipedian in a vote (this special case is often called a
meat puppet
). It is not always possible to tell the difference.
See also
Wikipedia:Sock puppet
Soft redirect
A very short article or page that essentially points the reader in the direction of another page. Used in cases where a normal redirect is inappropriate for various reasons (e.g., it is a cross-wiki redirect).
See also
Wikipedia:Soft redirect
Sort key
A device to make an article file alphabetically (in a category or other list of articles) other than by the article title, e.g., "John Smith" under "Smith, John", or "The Who" under "Who, The". Can be assigned to a specific category, or as a {{
DEFAULTSORT
:}}.
See also
Help:Category#Sort key
sp
Short for
spelling correction
or
space
. Used in
edit summaries
SPA
Short for
Single Purpose Account
. If that single purpose is disruptive (e.g., vote stacking, or attacking some user) the account tends to be indefinitely blocked.
Spamectomy
Removing spam from an article so that it is less of a POV issue.
Speedy
Abbreviation for
Speedy delete
(or "speedy rename" as appropriate). Can also be used as a verb – e.g.,
"I think the article should be speedied"
. "Speedy" on Wikipedia does not mean "now, immediately", but rather something that can be done without further discussion.
Speedy delete
Deletion of a page without prior discussion. Pages can be speedily deleted only under very specific circumstances; see
Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
for those.
Speedy keep
The closing of a vote on a deletion wikispace page (like
AFD
) before the normal end of the voting period. This happens when the nomination has been faulty (e.g., a
bad faith nomination
) or when there is overwhelming evidence that the page should be kept (e.g., overwhelming support for keeping it, or a history of deletion attempts that have ended in the same way).
Split
Separating a single page into two or more pages.
Sprot, sprotect, sprotection
Short for
semi-protect
[ion]
. Articles that are semi-protected cannot be edited by unregistered or newly-registered users.
Steward
An
Administrator
who has been empowered to change any user's status on any Wikimedia Foundation project, including granting and revoking Administrator status and granting
bureaucrat
status.
See also
Wikipedia:Administrators#Stewards
Strike out, strike-through, strikethrough, etc.
To place text in strike-through (HTML......
, or...
) tags. This is very rarely used in articles, but is relatively common in votes and discussions when a contributor changes his or her opinion. As not to cause confusion, the outdated comments are struck out (
like this
). The inserted material (HTML
) tag is sometimes used with it to show a replacement for the struck material (
like this
). Generally, one should strike out only one's own comments. Some editors prefer to simply remove or alter their updated material, though this is discouraged if others have responded to it and their responses would no longer make sense after the change.
Note
: Neither
nor
will exist any longer in HTML 5/XHTML 2, so
is recommended.
Stub
An article considered too short to give an adequate introduction to a subject (often one paragraph or less). Stubs are marked with stub templates, a specific type of
cleanup
template, which add the articles to stub categories sorted by subject matter.
See also
Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub
and
Wikiproject Stub Sorting
Subarticle, sub-article
1. An article that has been split from an original, larger main article to keep the main article readable and to better develop the sub-topic of the split into a richer article in its own right.
Contrast
subpage
. See also
Wikipedia:Summary style
2. A page in multi-page list that was split to reduce list article size.
See also
Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists
Subpage, sub-page
A page connected to a parent page, such as
Somepage/Arguments
. You can only create subpages in certain namespaces. Do not use subpages in the main article space.
Contrast
subarticle
. See also
Wikipedia:Subpages
Subst, subst'ing
Short for "
substituting
" a template.
Substub
A very short
stub
article, usually consisting of only one sentence.
Succession box
A type of
template
, usually placed at the foot of an article, linking to articles on the immediate predecessors of and successors to the subject of the article. Thus, for example, an article on the tenth president of
Foo
would be linked by succession box to articles on the ninth and eleventh presidents.
Compare
Infobox
Suitly emphazi
A phrase with no known exact meaning, but which has a general allusion to positive things, such as improvement, or a request for clarification or elucidation. Originally started as an in-joke on the Wikipedia Reference desk. (See
here
for the original usage.)
SUL
Abbreviation for
"Single user login"
, which refers to the process of unifying individual accounts with the same name across Wikimedia projects into one global account.
Sysop, Sys-op, Sys-Op
A less-used name for
Administrator
. See also
De-sysop
Systemic bias
In Wikipedian terms, this refers to the preponderance of Wikipedia articles relating to subjects specific to English-speaking and/or Western countries, as opposed to those from the rest of the world. It may also refer to a bias for articles that may be of particular interest to those who have an affinity towards computers and the Internet, since they are more likely to edit Wikipedia.
See also
WikiProject Countering systemic bias
Tag
1. A wiki
template
, in general.
2. Specifically, a template that will assign an article to a category (most often a
stub
template)
3. Specifically, a template applied to an article that indicates that is needs cleanup or that something about it is disputed.
4. Specifically, a template applied to a page that indicates that it has been nominated for deletion.
5. Specifically, a
WikiProject
banner template applied to a talk page.
6. Frequently: A
category
. Alternative for
category declaration
7. Verb: To apply any such template to a page, or to add a category.
8. An
HTML element
See also
Help:HTML in wikitext
and
Help:Table
9. A
mediawiki tag
, brief message applied next to certain revisions by the software
Talk page
A page reserved for discussion of the page with which it is associated, such as the article page.
Very confusingly
, the link to a talk page is labelled "discussion". All pages within Wikipedia (except pages in the Special namespace, and talk pages themselves!) have talk pages attached to them.
See also
Wikipedia:Talk page
Task force
A smaller group of editors in a WikiProject dedicated to a more specific field within the scope of the parent project. Task forces are located on WikiProject subpages. They generally have a less formal bureaucratic structure than full-fledged WikiProjects.
See also
Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/Task forces
Taxobox
A type of
infobox
, a taxobox is a
taxonomy
table positioned at the right side of an entry for a species or organism (or for a
genus
or
family
), giving a chart of the
kingdom
phylum
, etc. of the creature. Taxoboxes are also used for similar standardized tables.
See also
Wikipedia:Taxobox
Template
A way of automatically including the contents of one page within another page, used for
boilerplate text
, navigational aids, etc.
See also:
Wikipedia:Template namespace
TfD, TFD
The
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion
page.
Three-revert rule
A rule whereby no one is allowed to
revert
a single article more than three times in one day (with a few exceptions). See
Wikipedia:Three-revert rule
TINC
Short for "there is no cabal".
See
Cabal
Tl
Short for "template". Also the name of a specific template, {{
tl
}}, which provides a template link, i.e., links a page to a template without allowing the template's code to operate on that page.
TOC, ToC
An article (or other page)'s
table of contents
, which lists the subsection headings within the page. This is usually close to the top left of the page, but may be placed at the top right,
floated
, or omitted entirely.
top
On a user's list of contributions,
(top)
indicates that the article has not been edited by anyone else since the user last edited it.
Trainwreck
A nomination of a group of related pages for deletion or renaming which fails due to the disparate nature or worth of the pages. The deletion process often becomes messy with editors wishing to keep some pages but delete or rename others. Usually the discussion is closed as a procedural "keep", with some or all of the pages later nominated separately.
Transclusion
See
Wikipedia:Transclusion
Wikipedia:Transclusion costs and benefits
Translation
The English-language Wikipedia should have only pages in English. Non-English pages, listed on
Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English
, are subject to deletion unless translated.
See also:
Wikipedia:Translation
for requests for translations into English of pages from foreign-language Wikipedias.
Transwiki
Move a page to another Wikimedia project, in particular
Wiktionary
Wikibooks
Wikisource
or
sep11
See also
m:Transwiki
Troll
A user who incites or engages in disruptive behavior (
trolling
). There are some people who enjoy causing conflict, and there are those who make a hobby of it. However, these are few in number and one should
always
assume good faith
in other editors. Calling someone a troll in a dispute is a bad idea; it has an effect similar to
calling someone a Nazi
– no further meaningful debate is likely to occur.
See also
polarization
Tyop
A cute misspelling of
typo
. Used as an edit summary when correcting typos.
See also
Wikipedia:typo
Umbrella nomination
A nomination (e.g., on
CfD
) that contains several items (e.g., categories) which are normally nominated individually.
Unencyclopedic
Saying that something is unencyclopedic (also unencyclopaedic) implies that it would not be expected to appear in an encyclopedia, and thus not in Wikipedia. (One must remember however that Wikipedia is
not a paper encyclopedia
, and hence does not have the space limitations of a paper encyclopedia).
See also
Wikipedia:Unencyclopedic
Un-wiki
Going against the character of a
Wiki
. Usually, saying that something is "un-wiki" means that it makes editing more difficult or impossible.
Un-wikify, unwikify
Same as
de-wikify
Upmerge
A term frequently used on
categories for discussion
and
stub types for deletion
, it means "merge into parent category". In the case of stub types, this usually means to keep any associated template but to link it with the parent category rather than the category under discussion. In contexts such as
WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals
, creating an
upmerged template
means a stub template, only, feeding into a more general stub type.
Upscope
portmanteau
of
upmerge
and
rescope
See
rescope
User
See
Editor
Userbox
A small box which is stored in the template space, and which includes a small piece of information about a user (such as "This user likes cheese"). Many users use userboxes on their user page, although some look down upon it.
See also
Wikipedia:Userboxes
Userfy
Wikipedia:Userfication
is the process by which material posted in a Wikipedia article, project, or template space is moved into the
user space
: into a user page or
subpage
. A common case is where an inexperienced user who is not a notable person has created an article about himself/herself. The article would be deleted after userfying – moving its content to a user page.
User page
A personal page for
Wikipedians
. Most people use their pages to introduce themselves and to keep various personal notes and lists. They are also used by Wikipedians to communicate with each other via the user talk pages. The process of Registration does not generate user pages automatically. A user page is linked to as [[User:SomeUserNameHere|SomeUserNameHere]] and appears as
SomeUserNameHere
See also
Wikipedia:User page
Userspace draft
A draft created in a user's "userspace". See
Help:Userspace draft
Vandal
One who engages in significant amounts of vandalism.
See also
m:Vandal
Vandalbot
Some kind of
bot
being used for vandalism or spamming. Recognizable by the fact that one or a few IP-addresses make many similar clearly vandalistic edits in a short time. In the worst cases, these have created or vandalized hundreds of pages in several Wikipedias in a time span of only minutes.
See also
m:Vandalbot
Vandalism
Deliberate defacement of Wikipedia pages. This can be by deleting text or writing nonsense, bad language, etc. The term is sometimes improperly used to discredit the views of an opponent in
edit wars
. Vandalism can be reported at
Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
See also
m:Wikipedia vandalism
VandalProof
A tool for finding and removing vandalism.
See also
User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof
VFD
Used to refer to the "Votes for deletion" page. Although this has been replaced with "
AFD
" (
WP:AFD
), you may still see the term in older talk pages.
Village pump
The main community forum of Wikipedia (found at
Wikipedia:Village pump
), where proposals, policy changes, technical problems and other internals are announced and discussed in front of a wider audience than a topic-specific page would have.
VP
Shorthand for
Village pump
or for
VandalProof
Wall of text
An unusually long paragraph, presenting a solid block of text of a dozen or more lines. Walls of text are visually unappealing and difficult to read. A wall of text in an article may simply be a sign of an inexperienced editor unfamiliar with Wikipedia markup, or may be a sign of a more serious issue such as cut-and-paste copyright violation. A wall of text in a talk page may be taken to be a sign of soapboxing or
shotgun argumentation
Watchlist
A set of pages selected by the user, who can then click on
My watchlist
to see recent changes to those pages.
See also:
Help:Watching pages
Weasel words
Phrases such as "Some say that..." or "It has been argued..." that introduce a point of view without attributing it more specifically.
See
Wikipedia:Weasel words
; see also
Wikipedia:Neutral point of view#Attributing and substantiating biased statements
Wheel war
A dispute between Wikipedia
administrators
who use the privileges of Wikipedia administrators (such as
blocking
) as weapons in an
edit war
See also:
Wikipedia:Wheel war
Wheel war
WikiBlame
tool
for searching past versions of a particular article for a particular string of text. Usually used to determine who added the string of text. It is an external tool, available at
wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php
or via the "Revision history search" link on the article's history page.
Wikibooks
A Wikipedia sister project that works to develop free textbooks, manuals, and other texts online.
See also
Wikibooks
Wikibreak, wikivacation, Wikiholiday, Wiki-break, etc.
When a
Wikipedian
takes a break from
Wikipedia
See also
m:Wikibreak
and
Wikipedia:Wikiholiday
WikiFairy, Wikifaerie, Wiki-fairy, etc.
A Wikipedian who beautifies wiki entries by organizing messy articles, and adding style, color and graphics. The efforts of WikiFairies are normally welcome, though they do not necessarily create new articles or affect the substantive content of the articles they edit. WikiFairies are considered to be basically friendly, like
WikiGnomes
See also
WikiOgre
Wikipedia:WikiFairy
Wikify, wfy, wikiize, wiki-ise, etc.
To format using
Wiki markup
(as opposed to plain text or
HTML
) and add internal links to material, incorporating it into the whole of Wikipedia. Noun:
wikification
; gerund:
wikifying
See also
Wikipedia:How to edit a page
Category:Articles that need to be wikified
Wikipedia:Guide to layout
and
Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context
WikiGnome, wikignome, Wiki-Gnome, wiki-gnome, etc.
A Wikipedian who makes minor, helpful edits without clamoring for attention or praise for what they did.
See also
WikiFairy
WikiOgre
Wikipedia:WikiGnome
Wikilawyering
Attempting to inappropriately rely on technicalities in a
legalistic
manner with respect to
Wikipedia:Policies
or
Wikipedia:Arbitration
. See
Wikipedia:Wikilawyering
Wikilink
A link to another Wikipedia page or to an
anchor
on the same page, as opposed to an
external link
. For policy, see
Wikipedia:Only make links that are relevant to the context
Wikipedia:Build the web
. For mechanics, see
Wikipedia:Canonicalization
Help:Section#Section linking
Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs
, and
Wikipedia:Citing sources/Further considerations#Wikilinks to full references
. See also
free link
and
piped link
Wiki markup, wikitext, wiki text, wiki-text, etc.
Code like HTML, but simplified and more convenient, for example '''boldfaced text''' instead of boldfaced text. It is the source code stored in the database and shown in the edit box.
Searching
by the Wikipedia software is done in the wikitext, as opposed to searching by external major search engines, which is done in the resulting HTML. The size of a page is the size of the wikitext.
See also
Wikitext
Wikipedia:How to edit a page
Wikipedia:Guide to layout
Wikimedia
Properly
Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
, a non-profit organization that provides a legal, financial, and organizational framework for Wikipedia and its sister projects and provides the necessary hardware.
Contrast
MediaWiki
WikiOgre, Wiki-ogre, wikiogre, etc.
A Wikipedian who makes large edits from time to time but generally keeps to
WikiGnome
ry.
See also
Wikipedia:WikiOgre
WikiFairy
Wikiportal
Pages intended to be the main pages for Wikipedians interested in a specific area of knowledge, helping both to find the information on the specific topic and to develop articles connected with it.
See also
Wikipedia:Portal
Wikipediholic, Wikiholic
A wikipediholic is someone with a serious addiction to anything involving the words "Wiki" and "Pedia" in the same word or sentence. One of the main, and most common characteristics of the condition is the victim having a web browser window constantly open to the Recent Changes section of Wikipedia (or in the condition's slightly milder form, one's Watchlist), and pressing the "Reload" or "Refresh" button with a high frequency.
Wikipe-tan, Wiki-tan
One of the personifications of Wikipedia. She is the mascot character of various WikiProjects.
See also
Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan
WikiProject
An active group of Wikipedia editors working together to improve a specific group of articles, usually those on one or more related topics. This often involves an attempt to standardize the content and Style of the articles using an agreed standard format.
See also
Wikipedia:WikiProject
Wikiquette
The etiquette of working with others on Wikipedia.
See also
Wikipedia:Etiquette
Wikiquote
A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online collection of quotations.
See also
Wikiquote
Wikislap
Providing someone with the URL of a Wikipedia article when he or she expresses a lack of knowledge about a particular topic.
Wikisource
A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online compendium of primary source texts.
See also
Wikisource
Wikispace
The Wikipedia
namespace
. See
Wikipedia:Namespace#Pseudo-namespaces
and
Wikipedia:Shortcuts
(Wikipedia:WP).
Wikispam
Articles or sections created to promote a product or other
meme
Spamming
can also include adding extraneous or irrelevant links to promote an outside site, particularly for commercial purposes.
Wikispecies
A Wikipedia sister project. It is a wiki-based, species directory that provides a solution to the problem that there is no central registration of species data in Wikipedia. Wikispecies will provide a central, more extensive database for taxonomy. Wikispecies is aimed at the needs of scientific users rather than general users.
Wikistress, Wiki-Stress, wiki-stress, etc.
Personal stress or tension induced by editing Wikipedia, or more often by being involved in minor conflict with another editor. Some users maintain a Wikistress meter on their user page. See
Wikistress template
The Bosch Wikistress Meter
Wikistress
Wiktionary
A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online dictionary of every language.
See also
Wiktionary
WMF
See
Wikimedia Foundation
Wolf vote
A vote on Wikipedia which seems to be cast just to go against the flow. E.g., on RfA, this can typically be a vote such as "Oppose because x, y, and z are supporting." The opposite is called a
sheep vote
WP
1. Common abbreviation for
Wikipedia
, especially for pages in the Wikipedia
namespace
See also
Wikipedia:Namespace#Pseudo namespaces
and
Wikipedia:Shortcuts
2. Also sometimes used as an abbreviation for
WikiProject
(see also
WPP
WPP
Abbreviation for
WikiProject
XfD, XFD
Generic term for the collection of deletion discussion pages such as
MfD
AfD
RfD
IfD
, et al. where the "X" stands in for
iscellany,
rticle,
mage,
edirect etc.; "fD" stands for "
or
eletion" (or
iscussion in some cases)
XNR
Acronym for
Cross-namespace redirects
. Used mainly at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion
to emphasize for deletion. Sometimes given as
CNR
دا هم وګورئ
په دې برخه کې هغو پاڼو او موضوعاتو ته اشارې راوړل کېږي چې له دې موضوع سره نږدې تړاو لري او لوستونکي کولی شي د لا زياتو معلوماتو لپاره ورته مراجعه وکړي.
Wikipedia:Alphabet soup
Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Edit summary legend
Wikipedia:Guide to deletion#Shorthands
Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
Wikipedia:No-no
discussing the use (and abuse) of acronyms.
Wikipedia:WikiSpeak
مالومات:
Top
دا مخ د ويکيپېډيا د ځانګړو وييونو او اصطلاحاتو لپاره جوړ شوی دی. دلته به هغه لغتونه او اصطلاحات راټولېږي چې عموماً یوازې په ويکيپېډيا کې کارېږي او ښايي هر لوستونکی ورسره سمدستي بلد نه وي. د هرې اصطلاح مانا به په ساده، روښانه او د پوهېدو وړ پښتو کې تشريح شي، تر څو لوستونکي وکولای شي له ويکيپېډيا سره په اسانه ډول کار وکړي.
د دې کار موخه دا ده چې د ناسم پوهاوي مخه ونيول شي، د نويو او پخوانيو کاروونکو لپاره لار هواره شي، او د ويکيپېډيا د کارولو کچه او کيفيت لا ښه شي. په دې توګه به ويکيپېډيا نه يوازې اسانه، بلکې لا اغېزمنه او ګټوره هم شي.
مالومات
پازوال
- پازوال يا Admin هغه کارن ته ويل کېږي چې په ويکيپېډيا کې د ځينو ځانګړو چارو مسوليت ور تر غاړې وي. دا يو عادي کارن نه وي، بلکې داسې څوک وي چې د ويکيپېډيا له لوري ورته ځينې تخنيکي اسانتياوې ورکړل شوې وي، تر څو د پروژې په سم چلولو کې مرسته وکړي.
د پازوال د دندو له ډلې څخه د ليکنو ړنګول، ژغورل او تړل، د ستونزمنو يا ناندريزو کاروونکو مخنيوی، د ورانکارۍ یا تخریب درول، او نور اړين اداري کارونه شامل دي. د پازوال موخه دا ده چې ويکيپېډيا خوندي، منظم او د باور وړ وساتي، تر څو ټول کارنان وکولی شي په ارامه او ګټوره فضا کې کار وکړي.
broken link
- a link to a nonexistent page, usually colored red
blue link, bluelink
- a wikilink to an article that already exists shows up blue - or purple if it has been recently visited by that reader
category
- a collection of pages linked by topic. Category tags are in the form
Category:Computers
and are listed at the bottom of a page. The part after the ":" is the name of the category. A list of basic categories to browse through can be found at
Category:Fundamental
Community portal
- one of Wikipedia's main project pages. It can often be found on the sidebar (on the left side in most skins), and is a page that lists the collaboration of the week, outstanding tasks that need to be addressed, and several other useful bits of information and resources. The Community Portal is useful for picking an article or topic to work on or read.
coordinates
- articles about specific places may have coordinates. Clicking on these leads to a list of maps for the location
disambiguation
- the process of resolving the conflict that occurs when articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title
disambiguation page
- a page that contains various meanings of a word, and refers to the pages where the various meanings are defined. In cases when there is a prevailing meaning of the term, disambiguation pages are named "subject (disambiguation)"
discussion
- a link at the top of a page that leads to the discussion for that page (also called its talk page).
editor
- anyone who writes or modifies articles in a Wikipedia. See also contributor, user.
external link
- a link to a website not owned by Wikimedia. The alternatives are an internal link, wikilink or free link within Wikipedia, and an interwiki link to a sister project
Featured article
, an article that has been selected as representing "the best of Wikipedia"
free link
- a link pointing to another page within Wikipedia or its sister projects, sometimes referred to as wikilinks or internal links. Unless otherwise specified in a user's monobook.css, these links usually show up as blue if they are working and you haven't visited them before, red if they are broken or don't yet exist, and purple if they are working and you have visited them before
GNU Free Documentation License
- many Wikipedia's articles are released under this license. See also
Wikipedia:Copyrights
history
- all previous versions of an article, from its creation to its current state. Also called page history. See also:
Help:Page history
interwiki
- a link to a sister project; this can be an interlanguage link to a corresponding article in a different language in Wikipedia, or a link to another project
IP
(Internet Protocol) - a protocol used for communicating data across the Internet. The numerical IP address is used for tracking the edits of anonymous contributors (editors who are not logged on as a user)
IPA
(International Phonetic Alphabet) - widely used on Wikipedia to indicate pronunciation. See also Help:IPA, Help:IPA for English, the more detailed IPA chart for English dialects, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation).
ISBN
(International Standard Book Number) - these are usually shown as a wikilink. Clicking the link allows for searching a range of library cataogues for that particular book
link
- a string of coloured text making a
hyperlink
to give access to another document. On Wikipedia the may be wikilinks, external links, iterlanguage links or links to sister projects.
لومړی مخ
– هغه پاڼه ده چې هر کارن، که کومه ځانګړې مقاله ونه ټاکي، په اوتومات ډول ورته لېږل کېږي. لومړی مخ د روانو پېښو تړونونه لري، ځينې ټاکلې مقالې وړاندې کوي (لکه د ورځې غوره مقاله او د ويکيپېډيا تر ټولو نوې مقالې)، او د موضوعاتو يا نورو وېشونو له لارې د ټولو مقالو د لټون د پيل ټکی بلل کېږي. همدارنګه، د خورلڼو پروژو او د نورو ژبو د ويکيپېډياوو تړونونه پکې په څرګند ډول ښودل شوي وي. د دې پاڼې د ډېر ليدل کېدو له امله، د لومړي مخ ټول منځپانګه خوندي (ژغورل شوې) وي.
مېډياويکي
– هغه سافټویر دی چې ويکيپېډيا او د هغې خورلڼې پروژې پرې چلېږي، او سربېره پر دې، ځينې نورې پروژې هم پرې ولاړې دي چې له ويکيمېډيا سره تړاو نه لري.
نومتشيال
– دا د پاڼو د وېش او طبقهبندۍ يوه طريقه ده. ويکيپېډيا بېلابېل نومتشيالونه لري، لکه د دايرةالمعارف مقالې، د ويکيپېډيا اړوند پاڼې (د پروژې نومتشيال)، د کارن پاڼې (User:)، ځانګړې پاڼې (Special:)، د سانچو پاڼې (Template:)، او د خبرو اترو پاڼې (Talk:، Wikipedia talk:، او User talk:) او نور. د نورو معلوماتو لپاره وګورئ:
Wikipedia:Namespace
مخ
- په ويکيپېډيا کې هره انفرادي موضوع د يوې ځانګړې پاڼې په شکل وړاندې کېږي. دا پاڼې د ويب پاڼې اصلي منځپانګې برخه وي او له سرليک، پښو او اړخيزو پټو برخو بېلې وي.
په دې پاڼو کې بېلابېلې برخې شاملې دي، لکه مقالې، لنډې او اړوندې سټيب پاڼې، لارښوونې، د ګډو نښو (ابهام) پاڼې، د کاروونکو پاڼې، د خبرو او بحث پاڼې، رسمي اسناد او ځينې ځانګړې پاڼې چې د ويکيپېډيا د تنظيم او سمون لپاره کارېږي.
تانبه
- دا هغه پاڼې دي چې موخه یې د ځانګړو موضوعاتو يا برخو لپاره د "اصلي پاڼو" په توګه کار کول وي.
ژغورلی مخ
-دا اصطلاح هغو پاڼو ته کارول کېږي چې يوازې د مديرانو، يا په ځينو حالاتو کې د ليکنې اصلي کارن، سمولای شي. داسې پاڼې معمولاً هغه وخت ژغورل کېږي چې ډېر کارنان پرې سمون کوي او په منځ کې د نظرونو اختلاف او شخړې رامنځته شوي وي. د پازوالانو له خوا دا مخونه ژغورل کېږي، تر څو ستونزه حل او حالت ارام شي. د دې موضوع په اړه نور معلومات د ويکيپېډيا په «دا مخ خوندي دی» برخه کې موندل کېدای شي.
ناټاکلی مخ
- دا هغه لینک دی چې د ويکيپېډيا په ډېرو بڼو (سکينونو) کې د هرې پاڼې په کيڼ لور کې ښکاري. که پر دې کلیک وشي، نو کارن به يوې داسې مقالې ته يووړل شي چې د کمپيوټري الګوريتم له خوا په بشپړ ډول په تصادفي ډول ټاکل شوې وي. د دې ټاکنې تر شا کومه ځانګړې موخه، بڼه يا مانا نه وي، بلکې هر ځل يو بېل او ناټاکلی مخ پرانيستل کېږي.
وروستي بدلونونه (Recent changes)
– دا هغه پاڼه ده چې پکې د ويکيپېډيا ټول وروستي سمونونه او بدلونونه ښودل کېږي.
اړولوونکی مخ (Redirect, redir)
– دا د يوې پاڼې سرليک ته ويل کېږي چې کله وغوښتل شي، لوستونکی يوازې بلې پاڼې ته لېږي. دا د مترادفو لغتونو او د اسانه نښلولو لپاره کارول کېږي. د اړول شوې پاڼې نوم د اصلي هدف پاڼې د سرليک لاندې ښکاري. د بېلګې په توګه،
impressionist
کېدای شي
impressionism
ته واوړي. دا هم وګورئ:
Wikipedia:Redirect
سور لینک (Red link, redlink)
– دا هغه ويکيلینک دی چې يوې داسې مقالې ته اشاره کوي چې لا تر اوسه وجود نه لري، نو ځکه په سور رنګ ښکاري. دا هم وګورئ: اسماني رنګ لینک (blue link).
سکينونه (skins)
– دا د ويکيپېډيا د بڼې او ظاهري شکل نوم دی، چې د
Special:Preferences
له لارې بدلېدای شي. دا سکينونه ټاکي چې پاڼه څه ډول ښکاري، رنګونه، ليکدود او جوړښت يې څنګه وي. دا مهال اووه سکينونه شته: Chick، Classic، Cologne Blue، Monobook، MySkin، Nostalgia او Simple.
سټيب (stub)
– هغه مقاله ته ويل کېږي چې ډېره لنډه وي او د يوې موضوع د سمو پېژندنې لپاره بسنه ونه کړي، چې اکثره وخت يو فقـره يا تر هغې هم کمه وي. دا ډول مقالې د سټيب ځانګړو سانچو په وسيله نښه کېږي. دغه سانچې د پاکولو له ځانګړو سانچو څخه دي او مقالې د موضوع له مخې د سټيب په ځانګړو وېشنيزو کتګوريو کې شاملوي.
خبرو اترو مخ
-هره ياده شوې پاڼه د خبرو اترو ځانګړې پاڼه لري، چې د پاڼې په سر کې د «خبرې اترې» لینک له لارې ورته لاسرسی کېدای شي. دا پاڼه د لوستونکو او کاروونکو لپاره يوه فضا برابروي چې د پاڼې په اړه بحث وکړي، نظرونه شریک کړي او د اصلاحاتو وړاندیزونه وکړي.
خویندې پروژې
-د ويکيپېډيا اړوند د يو شمېر ويکيانو څخه يو يې دلته
لومړی مخ
کتلی شئ!
کارن
کارن
– هغه کس ته یول کېږي چې په ويکيپېډيا کې يې خپل ګڼون جوړ کړی وي او د ايډيټر يا سمونګر په توګه ليکنې سموي، نوي مالومات ورزياتوي او د ويکيپېډيا د ښه کولو لپاره برخه اخلي.
ليکنه
- په ويکيپېډيا کې هره مقاله د يوې ځانګړې ليکنې په بڼه وړاندې کېږي. ټول مخونه د دې اصولو پر بنسټ جوړ شوي، خو ځينې مخونه شته چې د عادي مقالې په شان نه دي. د بېلګې په توګه، همدا مخ چې د ويکيپېډيا وييپانګه تشريح کوي، يوه مقاله نه بلکې د لارښوونې او مرستې پاڼه ده. دا ډول مخونه د معلوماتو د وړاندې کولو ځانګړې موخه لري او د عادي علمي يا معلوماتي مقالې پر ځای د ويکيپېډيا د تنظيم، زده کړې او ملاتړ لپاره کارول کېږي..
ويکي
-هر هغه
وېبپاڼه
چې د ساده مارک اپ ژبې په کارولو سره، د
وېب لټون
له لارې، د يو شمېر سره تړل شوو وېبپاڼو د اخلي لينکونو د
سمون
او
پنځون
اسانتيا رامنځته کوي،
ويکيپېډيا
ويکي
تر ټولو مشهوره او ښه بېلګه ده.
ويکيسيند
-دا د ويکيپېډيا له خورلڼو پروژو څخه يوه ده، چې په انلاين بڼه د وړيا درسي کتابونو، لارښودونو او نورو زدهکړيزو متنونو د ليکلو، سمولو او خپرولو لپاره کارول کېږي. د دې پروژې موخه دا ده چې د هرچا لپاره ازاد او لاسرسی وړ درسي مواد برابر کړي، څو زدهکړه د وخت، ځای او مالي محدوديتونو پرته ممکنه شي.
ويکي تړنه
- په ويکيپېډيا کې د بلې پاڼې دننه یا داخلي لینک.
مالومات
" نه اخيستل شوی
وېشنيزې
Wikipedia FAQ
Wikipedia editor help
Reader help
ويکيپېډيا
وييپانگه
سکالو ورگډول
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