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glossary of terms commonly used on
Wikiversity
. For more help, see
Help:Contents
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Administrator
At
Wikipedia
, sysops are called administrators, but at Wikiversity, they are called
custodians
. The various others are known as
Bureaucrats
and others are authorized to use bots to clean up our foundation.
AGF
Abbreviation for "assume good faith", a guideline whereby one should not assume that a bad edit was done maliciously. See
Wikiversity:Assume Good Faith
Anon
Abbreviation for "anonymous user". This is what you are if you have not
logged in
Also used: IP user
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
Wikiversity:Archive
page, for obsolete historical material.
See also:
Wikiversity:How to archive a talk page
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Ban
Banning is the extreme, last resort action by which someone is prevented from editing Wikiversity for a prolonged or indeterminate length of time. Reasons for banning are usually a long history of biased edits, 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 that is with great likelihood identified as being the same person can be blocked without any further reason. See also:
Block
Barnstar
Barnstars
are a light-hearted system of awards given to Wikiversity editors by other editors to acknowledge good work or other positive contributions to Wikiversity. 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 fix mistakes in articles themselves, rather than complain about them. See
Wikiversity:Be bold
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 vandalised brand-new page, it is maintenance, and the page will be deleted by a
Custodian
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 Custodian, removing from a certain IP-number or username the ability to edit Wikiversity. Usually done against addresses that have done 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
Wikiversity by
expanding it
Bot
A program that automatically or semi-automatically adds or edits Wikipedia-pages.
See also
w:Bots
Broken link
Also used:
edit link
red link
A link to a nonexistent page, usually colored
red
. [[Template:]] may display this way depending on your settings.
Broken redirect
Redirect to a non-existing page. Common opinion is that these should be removed.
Bureaucrat
A Wikiversity
custodian
who has been entrusted with promoting users to Custodian.
See also
Wikiversity:Bureaucrats
Also used:
Crat
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Category
Also used:
cat
A category is a collection of pages automatically formed by the Wikiversity 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:Wikiversity
. A user-friendly way to find a category for academic topics is to start at
Category:Wikiversity portals
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 are ungrammatical, are poorly formatted, etc. 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
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 Wikiversity's main pages. It can often be found on the quickbar (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.
Content development
The Wikiversity project exists as a website devoted to the creation and hosting of educational content. A general term for the intended Wikiversity content is
learning resources
. Wikiversity has many content development projects where participants collaborate to create, organize and develop particular types of learning resources. See:
Wikiversity:Content development
Contribs
Short for contributions. These are the
edits
that a user has made.
Copyedit
A change to an article that only affects formatting, grammar, and other presentational aspects.
Copyvio
Also used:
copyviol
, and occasionally
CV
violation. Usually used in an edit summary when some copyrighted material has been added to Wikipedia.
See also
Wikiversity:Copyrights
Crat
Short for
Bureaucrat
Cut and paste move
Moving a page by taking the text of the page, and put it into the edit window for the second page. Generally considered worse than the 'move page' option, because it causes the page and its edit history to be in different places. Cut and paste moves can be fixed by Custodians.
CV
See
Copyvio
Colloquium
The
Colloquium
is a general Wikiversity community discussion page.
Course
Courses are one type of
learning project
. The
Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees
rejected
the first
Wikiversity project proposal
and
instructed
the Wikiversity community to modify the proposal to "exclude online-courses". See the Wikiversity
e-learning model
for thoughts on how wiki technology can be used to assist learning without using conventional courses. See also:
Wikiversity:Courses
Custodian
Wikiversity sysops are called "
custodians
".
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Department
A Wikiversity Department is a
content development project
for organizing learning materials for a narrow topic of study. Example: the
Department of Cell Biology
. Pages for Departments are placed in the "Topic:"
namespace
Dif
Within wiki projects, a "dif" is the "difference" between a wiki webpage's contents from before an edit to after an edit. The "dif" for any edit can be obtained from the history page of the edited page. Use the "compare selected versions" button. (
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EOD
EOD means "End of Discussion" or "End of Day" - mainly used in business communication (
other definitions
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Faculty
The term "faculty" is used at some Universities to refer to very large fields of study. Within Wikiversity, such large academic subject areas are organized by
Portals
Foo
Foo
- "foo" is often used as a place-holder term. See
Foo
at Wikpedia.
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GFDL
GFDL
stands for "GNU Free Documentation License" and is the
license
that is applied to all the text added by editors to Wikiversity pages. See:
The GFDL and you
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
The Graphical User Interface (GUI) is the portion of the computer program that is seen by a user with graphics and text, as opposed to just text. The simplest way to explain it is to look at the windows you see on your desktop that are part of your Operating System (OS). By using these windows, task bars, buttons, sliders, your keyboard and your mouse, you are interacting with the OS and all the other programs installed into your computer. Without the graphics, you would be using a command line, like in MS-DOS or the terminal of a Linux OS.
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IAR
Ignore A Rule. In all cases, Wikiversity rules, guidelines and
policies
exist to facilitate the
goals of the Wikiversity project
. If a rule, guideline or policy is being used to defeat the goals of the Wikiversity project, then Wikiversity participants should ignore that rule and work to replace it with a rule that serves the needs of the project.
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Learning project
Learning projects
at Wikiversity are usually collaborative webpage editing projects for Wikiversity participants. By participating in learning projects, Wikiversity editors "learn by doing" in the wiki way.
Learning resource
Learning resources
are the intended content of Wikiversity.
Lesson
Lessons are one type of
learning project
. Conventional lessons can be downloaded and used outside of Wikiversity or read by Wikiversity browsers. Other Wikiversity lessons include activities that require collaborative editing of Wikiversity webpages.
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Namespace
Wikimedia Foundation wiki projects like Wikiversity use a standard set of
namespaces
. Each namespace holds pages that serve a specific function. See
Wikiversity:Namespaces
NPOV
Neutral Point Of View. Most Wikimedia Foundation projects follow a
conventional NPOV policy
in order to limit bias in wiki webpages. Wikiversity has the
Disclosures
policy in order to allow some pages to express a bias.
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Outing
At
Wikimedia
projects, "outing" is a term used to refer to unwelcome disclosure of an editor's personal information such as legal name, date of birth, identification numbers, home or workplace address, job title and work organization, telephone number, email address, or other contact information. See:
Wikiversity:Privacy policy
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Page Section
Wikiversity webpages that have a large amount of content usually divide that content into
page sections
, often just called "sections". See
Section headings
Policy
Many Wikiversity
policies
are similar to those for Wikipedia. Other Wikiversity policies are specific for the educational mission of Wikiversity. In all cases, Wikiversity policy exists to facilitate
the goals
of the Wikiversity project.
Portal
Wikiversity portals are user-friendly webpages that guide Wikiversity browsers to webpages related to a particular subject area. Wikiversity portal pages exist in the "Portal:"
namespace
. See:
Wikiversity:Portal
POV
Point of view. Wikiversity pages that explore a topic from the perspective of a biased point of view explicitly describe that perspective according to the
Disclosures
policy.
Prefix
Some page names at Wikiversity have a prefix such as "Topic:" or "School:". Such pages with prefixes are in
namespaces
, special collections of pages that all serve a related function. For example, pages that start with the "Topic:" prefix are
content development projects
where Wikiversity participants collaborate to create
learning resources
for a narrow topic area. See
Wikiversity:Namespaces
for details.
Project
Project - Wikiversity is a place for collaborative
learning projects
. Wikiversity has many collaborative
content development
projects where participants create, organize and develop learning resources for particular subject areas (See
Wikiversity:Schools
and
Wikiversity:Topics
). Wikiversity also has community development projects that concern the general function of Wikiversity as a wiki (example:
Wikiversity:Introduction Overhaul Taskforce
). Within the set of
Wikiversity namespaces
, the "project namespace" is the "Wikiversity namspace" where all pages start with the "Wikiversity:" prefix. The "Wikiversity namspace" is for policy pages and other pages concerned with the entire Wikiversity project.
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Revert
"Reverting a page" means returning a page to a previous version of its history.
Rollback
custodians
have access to a rollback tool for rapidly reverting the edits of vandals, see:
Wikiversity:Rollback
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section
See
page section
, above.
side bar
The
side bar
holds a collection of links and the search tool and is displayed at the upper left edge of Wikiversity pages.
School
Within Wikiversity there is a "School:"
namespace
. A Wikiversity school functions as a special
content development project
that can organize the efforts of Wikiversity participants who create learning resources for a set of related academic topics. See:
Wikiversity:Schools
Stub
stub
page is a short page that needs further development. See
Wikiversity:Stub
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Template
The contents of a Wikiversity page can be easily transcluded (copied) into other Wikiversity pages. See
Help:Template
and
Wikiversity:Templates
Topic
Wikiversity has a special "Topic:"
namespace
for content development projects. See
Wikiversity:Topics
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WikiProject
At the
Wikipedia
website there is a "WikiProject" psuedonamespace that places all content development projects inside the "Wikipedia:" namespace. At Wikipedia, all
content development projects
have page names that start with "Wikipedia:WikiProject". Rather than use a pseudonamespace for content development projects, Wikiversity uses the "
School:
" and "
Topic:
" namespaces. See
w:Wikipedia:WikiProject
and
Wikiversity:WikiProject
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