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ვიკიპედია:ტერმინების სარჩევი - ვიკიპედია
შინაარსზე გადასვლა
მასალა ვიკიპედიიდან — თავისუფალი ენციკლოპედია
მოგესალმებით
მასწავლებელი
ცნობარი
სარჩევი
დახმარება
ფორუმი
სარჩევი
გახსოვდეთ: ქვემოთ მოყვანილი განსაზღვრებები გამოგადგებათ პროექტის სახელთა სივრცეში, რედაქტირების რეზიუმესა და განხილვის გვერდებზე დისკუსიებში, თუმცა უნდა გაითვალისწინოთ, რომ
ჟარგონი უნდა განმარტოთ
ენციკლოპედიურ სტატიებში და წეროთ ისინი ადვილად გასაგებ ენაზე.
ნუ გადააჭარბებთ ვიკიპედიის ისეთი ჟარგონის გამოყენებას, როგორიცაა მალსახმობები განხილვის გვერდებზე და რედაქტირების რეზიუმეში. როგორც მინიმუმ, მიუთითეთ შესაბამისი ბმული გვერდებზე, სადაც ახსნა-განმარტებაა მოყვანილი.. იხ
Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
ამ თემაზე დაწერილი ნარკვევისთვის.
მალხმობები
ვპ:ტს
ვპ:ტერმ
სარჩევი:
დასაწყისი
0–9
0-9
წყაროს რედაქტირება
3RR
See
three-revert rule
წყაროს რედაქტირება
Ad
Advertisement.
Admin
Short for
Administrator
. A user with extra technical privileges for "custodial" work on Wikipedia - specifically, deleting and protecting pages, and blocking users.
Also used:
Sysop
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
Wikipedia:Assume good faith
, and
Hanlon's razor
Anon
Abbreviation for "anonymous user". This is what you are if you have not
logged in
Also used: IP user
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,_URLs,_images
AOTW
Abbreviation of
Wikipedia:Article of the week
, the former appellation of
Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week
ArbCom
Abbreviation for
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
Arbitration
The final step in the
dispute resolution
process.
See also
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
Archive
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:Archive
page, for outdated historical material.
See also:
Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page
Armwaving
Also, handwaving.
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.
Article
An encyclopedia entry. All articles are pages, but there are also pages that are not articles, such as this one.
See also
Wikipedia:What is an article
Astroturf
Used only as a verb,
astroturfing
refers to the unfair and disruptive practice of recruiting numerous
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".
Autofellatio
In the outside world, "Autofellatio" means just what
the article
says (think before you click, it's not appropriate for the whole family). 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). Due to this, and the term's otherwise obscurity, Autofellatio has become an internal Wikipedian
meme
Autoconfirm
newly registered user
is still subject to some of the same restrictions as anonymous users - for example, inability to move articles or edit semiprotected 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 wait four days to be autoconfirmed, and there is no minimum number of edits required.
ვ==B==
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
Ban
Banning is the extreme, last resort action by which someone is prevented from editing Wikipedia for a certain length of time, limited or unlimited. Typical reasons for banning include a long history of biased edits (violation of
NPOV
), persistent adding of incorrect or doubtful material, refusal to cooperate with others, or extreme incivility and threats. If someone is banned, their username is blocked, and any username or IP judged to be the same person can be blocked without any further reason. See also:
Block
Banner
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 specific details relating to the article or category's maintenance. They are often specifically linked to a WikiProject to indicate that the article or category falls within the jurisdiction of that project, but may also be related to article maintenance or protection. "Banner" may also simply mean the administrator who
bans
a troublesome editor.
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 are a wide variety of different types of barnstar, each indicating a different reason for the award having been given.
Be 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
BEEFSTEW
A proposed rubric that some editors use for judging the quality of articles on high schools (and, by extension, elementary schools). See
User:Dpbsmith/BEEFSTEW
BJAODN
Abbreviation for
Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
. The verb,
BJAODNed
, refers to the act of something being posted on the page with that name, and is 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
admin
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-number or username the ability to edit Wikipedia. Usually done against addresses that have engaged in vandalism or against users who have been banned. See also:
Ban
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
Bot
A program that automatically or semi-automatically adds or edits Wikipedia-pages.
See also
Wikipedia:Bots
Rambot
Vandalbot
Broken link
Also used:
edit link
red link
A link to a nonexistent page, usually colored
თარგი:Red
. [[Template:]] may display this way depending on your settings.
Broken გადამისამართება
გადამისამართება 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
Wikipedia:Bureaucrats
Also used:
Crat
წყაროს რედაქტირება
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 is comparable to the use of the term
SMOF
in science fiction fandom.
Compare with
Troll
See also
m:Cabal
There Is No Cabal
Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal
Cat
"Category" or "Categorize".
Category
Also used:
cat
A category is a collection of pages automatically formed by the Wikipedia servers by analysing category tags in articles. 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
CfD
The
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion
page (previously known as
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion
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 that lets users with it 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
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:
Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
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.
Contribs
Short for contributions. These are the edits that a user has made.
Convenience links
Links to unoffical 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
Copyvio
Also used:
copyviol
, and occasionally
CV
violation. Usually used in an edit summary when deleting copyrighted material added without complying with Wikipedia copyright verification procedures.
See also
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.
Cruft
A term used to describe an article or group of articles which 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, although some argue that articles such as
Vulpix
are cruft, despite their long-term survival as articles.
CSB
WikiProject Countering systemic bias
or, more rarely, an adjective for a topic of concern to the WikiProject, e.g. "This doesn't 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.
Cut and paste move
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
See
Copyvio
CVG
Computer and video games
წყაროს რედაქტირება
dab
See
Disambiguation
db
db is an
acronym
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
}}
. It can also refer to Wikipedia's
database
See also
Speedy
Data dump
To import material from outside sources into Wikipedia without editing, formatting and linking (wikifying). This is frowned upon by most
Wikipedians
See also
Wikify
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.
De-admin
See
De-sysop
De-bold
Also used:
un-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).
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
and
m:inclusionism
Deorphan
To make a page no longer an orphan.
See also
Wikipedia:Orphan
Deprecated
Techie-speak for "tolerated or supported but not recommended (i.e. beware: may well be on the way out)". The term is also used to refer to pages, templates or categories that have been
orphaned
or are no longer used. In non-technical English, the word means "deplored or strongly disapproved of".
De-sysop
Also used:
De-admin
Take away someone's sysop status. Used very rarely, in cases where someone is judged to have misused their sysop powers.
See also
Wikipedia:Possible misuses of admin privileges
Developer
A user who can make direct changes to the
Wikipedia software
and database, usually being one of the MediaWiki developers or WikiMedia foundation technicians. Technically it is the highest user access level, but Developer privileges are generally only used at request.
See also
m:Developers
for a list of developers and further information.
De-Wikify
Also used:
Un-Wikify
To remove (de-link) a
wikification
of an article. This can be done to remove
self-references
or excessive common-noun Wikification (also known as "sea of blue").
Dicdef
Also used:
Dictdef
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
Also used:
dab
disambig
The process of resolving the conflict that occurs when articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title.
See also
Wikipedia:Disambiguation
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)".
Double გადამისამართება
გადამისამართება
which leads to another გადამისამართება. Counterintuitively, this will not bring one to the final destination, so it needs to be eliminated by linking directly to the target გადამისამართება. Double გადამისამართებაs are generated when moving a page which has გადამისამართებაs 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
თარგი:CompactTOC2
წყაროს რედაქტირება
Edit conflict
Also, "edconf". Appears if an edit is made to the page between when one opens it for editing and completes the edit. The later edit doesn't take effect, but the editor is prompted to merge their edit with the earlier one. Edit conflicts shouldn't 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 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.
Edit war
Also used:
revert 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
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
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 გადამისამართებაing (or deleting) subpages. This is the solution that was implemented to close the
Esperanza
External link
Also used:
ext. ln
ext lk
, or
extlink
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
წყაროს რედაქტირება
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.
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.
Fancruft
See
Cruft
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
wikis
, 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.
წყაროს რედაქტირება
GA
Good article
Gdanzig
An edit war over which of several possible names should be used for a place, after an ancient lengthy edit war over the name of
Gdańsk
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
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
GFDL
GNU Free Documentation License
. Wikipedia articles are released under this license.
See also
Wikipedia:Copyrights
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 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 one. 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 famous to warrant an article or is simply engaging in vanity 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.
წყაროს რედაქტირება
Hagiography
Wording that is excessively fulsome, adulatory or glowing in a biographical article, to the point of violating
NPOV
. See
Hagiography
Handwaving
See:
#Armwaving
History
All previous versions of an article, from its creation to its current state. Also called
page history
See also:
Wikipedia: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.
წყაროს რედაქტირება
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 professions, e.g.
IANAD
(doctor).
IfD
An abbreviation for
Images and media 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
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.
ITHAWO
I thought he already was one. Used about people listed in 'admin' requests.
ITN
An abbreviation for
Template:In the news
წყაროს რედაქტირება
Janitor
See
Admin
Jimbo
Jimmy Wales
, Chair and President of the
Wikimedia
Foundation.
წყაროს რედაქტირება
Kate's Tool
tool
written by
Kate
used to count a user's edits without having to page through the contributions list.
See also
Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters
წყაროს რედაქტირება
Language link
See
Interwiki
Laundry list
See
Wikipedia:Embedded_list
and
Wikipedia:WikiProject Laundromat
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
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
Link
See
Wikipedia:Links
წყაროს რედაქტირება
On the
Recent changes
page,
(lower case, bold) indicates a
minor edit
Main Page
The page to which every user not specifying an article is გადამისამართებაed. 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 also 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
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
The Mediation Cabal.
See
Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal
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.
Compare with
Wikimedia
See also
Wikipedia:MediaWiki
Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace
Merge
Taking the text of two pages, and turning it into a single page.
See
Wikipedia: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
) used to discuss general Wikipedia matters. In the past, this has been called
Metapedia
Meta Wikipedia
Meta Wikimedia
, and many other combinations.
See also
Meta
Meta page
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
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).
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 გადამისამართება to keep the original link intact.
See also
Help:Renaming (moving) a page
თარგი:CompactTOC2
წყაროს რედაქტირება
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".
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
Newbie test
Also used:
newb test
noob 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
frequently in lower case as
nn
Found on comments at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
, indicating that the article's subject is
not
notable
enough for a Wikipedia entry.
nom
Short for "nomination," it is often found on
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
as part of the phrase
Delete per nom
, indicating a voter's assent to the main nomination for deletion.
NOR
The Wikipedia policy that
No Original Research
is allowed in citing sources in articles.
Notice board
Also used:
noticeboard
A page which 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
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 is in compliance with Wikipedia's NPOV policy.
Null edit
a null edit is made when an editor opens the edit window of a document then re-saves the file without having made any text changes. This is sometimes done to change the functioning of templates (which require articles containing them to be edited in order for any changes to take effect).
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
წყაროს რედაქტირება
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
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
A page with no links from other pages. You can view lists of
orphaned articles
and
images
See also
Wikipedia:Orphan
წყაროს რედაქტირება
Page
Any individual topic within Wikipedia; the
web page
without the top, bottom and side bars. Pages include articles, stubs, გადამისამართებაs, disambiguation pages, user pages, talk pages, documentation and
special pages
Patent nonsense
A humorous pejorative applied to articles that are either completely unintelligible or totally irrelevant. See
Wikipedia:Patent nonsense
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
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 X
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.
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 prior to
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 1.6devel
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
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.
See also
Wikipedia:Piped link
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!" Also written as
WP: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
Picture of the day
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
", as in "That reply was POV, not neutral".
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's 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 which 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:".
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
Also used:
VP
A nickname for
Wikipedia:Village pump
წყაროს რედაქტირება
Quarto
Wikimedia Quarto
is a multilingual quarterly newsletter published by the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. It can be read online
here
Quickpoll
A poll among Wikipedia regulars on issues that need to be quickly resolved, such as the banning of problematic users. Also used as verb:
to quickpoll
, meaning
to hold a quickpoll
. Considered obsolete.
წყაროს რედაქტირება
Rambot
A controversial
bot
written by
User:Ram-Man
and used to enter
United States
geographical data for tens of thousands of cities, notable and otherwise.
See also
User talk:Rambot
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
Re-creation
, also "recreation"
A posting either of the same or similar text of a deleted article by a new user, or of the same text or different text of a deleted article by the original creator.
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.
გადამისამართება
Also used:
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 გადამისამართება to
impressionism
See also
Wikipedia:გადამისამართება
Redlink
wikilink
to an article that doesn't exist shows up red. See
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
, also "retarget"
To change the destination article of a
გადამისამართება
, either to avoid a
double გადამისამართება
or to change the გადამისამართება so that it leads to a more appropriate article.
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
Can mean
request for adminship
or
request for arbitration
, depending on the context. The latter is frequently abbreviated
RfAr
to avoid the ambiguity.
RfA Cliche #1
Sometimes used in support at "requests for adminship", to indicate that one thought the candidate already was an admin. See also
ITHAWO
RfAr
Request for arbitration
RfC
Request 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.
See also:
Wikipedia:Requests for comment
RfD
The
Wikipedia:გადამისამართებაs for deletion
page.
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
Remove 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 "rvv" below.)
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 have special tools to do this more easily.
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 which the affected users may not like (such as blocking vandals and deleting 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
Revert. See above.
See also
Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version
rvv
Revert because of vandalism. See
rv
above.
წყაროს რედაქტირება
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/g
means "replace
all occurrences
of
word1
with
word2
" (
stands for "global").
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
, e.g.
User:Hephaestos/Sandbox
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 (hopefully) easier to find the exact spot where one wants to edit, and helps you avoiding 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
გადამისამართებაs
to the same article is not, and should be de-
wikified
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 he or she wishes to show good faith after a
three-revert rule
violation.
See
revert
SfD
The
Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion
page.
Sheep vote
A vote on Wikipedia which 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
გადამისამართება
used within
Wikispace
to enable editors to get to a project page more quickly.
Skin
The appearance theme in
Special:Preferences
. Currently, five are available: Standard, Nostalgia, Cologne Blue, Monobook, and MySkin.
Smerge
A contraction of "slight
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 გადამისამართება
).
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
Sock puppet
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 გადამისამართება
A very short article or page that essentially points the reader in the direction of another page. Used in cases where a normal გადამისამართება is inappropriate for various reasons (e.g. it is a cross-wiki გადამისამართება)
See also
Wikipedia:Soft გადამისამართება
sp
Short for
spelling correction
. 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 get indefinitely blocked.
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
) prior to 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 (EG. Massive or unanimous 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.
Steward
An
Administrator
who has been empowered to change any user's status, including granting and revoking Administrator status and granting
bureaucrat
status.
See also
Wikipedia:Administrators#Stewards
Strike out
Placement of text in strikethrough (HTML
/s
) tags. This is very rarely used in articles, but is relatively common in votes and discussions when a contributor changes his opinion. As not to cause confusion, the outdated comments are struck out (
like this
). Generally, one should strike out only one's own comments.
Stub
An article usually consisting of one short paragraph or less.
See also
Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub
and
Wikiproject Stub Sorting
Subst'ing
Short for "substituting" a template;
see
Transclusion
Sub-stub
A very short
stub
. For example, an article that is no more than a simple definition ("An airplane is a type of winged flying vehicle"). The practice of tagging short articles as substubs has been deprecated - tag them as stubs instead.
See also
Wikipedia:Substub
Subpage
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.
See also
Wikipedia:Subpages
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.)
Sysop
See
Admin
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
თარგი:CompactTOC2
წყაროს რედაქტირება
Tag
In addition to its usual
HTML
meanings, a tag can simply mean a
category
or a
template
that will assign an article to a category (most often a
stub
template). "To tag an article" means to either add a category or a stub template.
See also
Help:HTML in wikitext
and
Help:Table
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
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
The
Wikipedia:Templates for deletion
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
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.
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.
Trackback
Not yet documented:
Wikipedia:Trackback
Transclusion
also used
subst'ing
There are two main ways to use templates on articles: inclusion (accomplished by using
{{Template Name}}
), and transclusion (
{{subst:Template Name}}
). The former will include the content of
Template Name
on the fly whenever the article is loaded, while the latter will permanently insert the content of the template into the article. Thus, using transclusion, if the template content is modified at a later date, the article's content will
not
change.
Transclusion is the preferred method for long-term, permanent notices because it is less confusing, and it even helps to lighten the load on the database. Transclusion has a further advantage in that a template's content may be de-linked from any associated category or slightly modified to suit the circumstances, such as when the template is used on a talk page. Inclusion is preferred when it is possible that the template will be edited or replaced at a later date.
Some
process pages
are said to be transcluded when each day's additions to the page (or every new item) has its own subpage, which is linked to the main process page by a template.
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 wiki, 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
წყაროს რედაქტირება
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.
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.
UseMod
See
UseModWiki
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
To turn a page in the article or template namespace 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. User pages are not generated automatically by the process of Registration. A user page is linked to as
[[User:Hephaestos|Hephaestos]]
and appears as
Hephaestos
See also
Wikipedia:User page
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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 vandalist edits in a short time. In the worst cases these have created or vandalized hundreds of pages in several Wikipedias in a timespan of only minutes.
See also
m:Vandalbot
Vandalism
Deliberate defacement of Wikipedia pages. This can be by deleting text or writing nonsense, bad language, et cetera. The term is often incorrectly used to discredit the views of an opponent in
edit wars
. Vandalism can be reported at
Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
See also
m:Wikipedia vandalism
VfD
"Votes for Deletion", the previous name of
Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion
(see
AfD
, above)
VfU
"Votes for undeletion", the previous name of
Wikipedia:Deletion review
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
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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
Wheel war
A dispute between Wikipedia
administrators
who use the privileges of Wikipedia administrators (such as
blocking
) as weapons in the "war".
See also:
Wikipedia:Wheel war
Wheel war
Wikibooks
A Wikipedia sister project that works to develop free textbooks, manuals, and other texts online.
See also
Wikibooks
Wikibreak
Also used:
Wikivacation
When a
Wikipedian
takes a break from
Wikipedia
See also
m:Wikibreak
and
Wikipedia:Wikiholiday
Wikienvy
One who has envy toward Wiki projects.
WikiFairy
Also used:
Wiki faerie
It is the slang term for a wiki editor 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
Wikipedia:WikiFairy
Wikify
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
. Sometimes shortened to
wfy
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
A Wikipedian who makes minor, helpful edits without clamoring for attention/praise for what they did.
See also
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, as opposed to an
external link
. See
Wikipedia:Only make links that are relevant to the context
Wikipedia:Build the web
, and
Wikipedia:Canonicalization
Wiki markup
Also used:
wiki text
wikitext
Code like HTML, but simplified and more convenient, for example
'''bold'''
instead of
bold
. 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 text. The size of a page is the size of the wikitext.
See also
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.
Compare with
MediaWiki
See also
Wikimedia
Wikipedian
Also used:
Wikipedist
Wikipede
A contributor to Wikipedia.
See also
Wikipedia:Wikipedians
Wikipediaing
Includes all the activities on
Wikipedia
, like searching, editing, creating, wikifying, etc. of articles.
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
A wikipediholic or wikiholic 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.
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 Wikipedia etiquette of working with others on Wikipedia.
See also
Wikipedia:Wikiquette
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 they express 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
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
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".
WMF
See
Wikimedia Foundation
WP
Common abbreviation for
Wikipedia
, especially for pages in the Wikipedia
namespace
. Also sometimes used as an abbreviation for
WikiProject
. See
Wikipedia:Namespace#Pseudo namespaces
and
Wikipedia:Shortcuts
(Wikipedia:WP).
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XfD
Generic term for the collection of deletion discussion pages such as
MfD
AfD
RfD
IfD
, et. al
XNR
Cross-
namespace
გადამისამართება. Used mainly at
Wikipedia:გადამისამართებაs for discussion
as grounds for deletion.
წყაროს რედაქტირება
YHBT
You Have Been
Trolled
(You Have Lost, Have A Nice Day). Said to people who respond forcefully when someone baits them by making nasty remarks with the specific purpose of making them angry.
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en: / de: / ja: / etc.
The English / German / Japanese / etc.-language Wikipedia. Often used in
edit summaries
to indicate changes to
interwiki
links. For a full list of codes, see
ISO 639
. For a full list of Wikipedias, see
m:Complete list of language Wikipedias available
The term ø is sometimes used in
edit summaries
to indicate a
null edit
!=
"Is not equal to". This usage comes from the
relational operator
in such languages as C.
!vote
"Not-vote" (the exclamation mark means 'not' in many programming languages). Something that looks like a vote but should not be considered a vote. The term !vote is somewhat tongue-in-cheek. See also
Discuss, Don't Vote
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დასაწყისი
0–9
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