How Wikipedia Works/Appendix D

Appendix D. Glossary Wikipedia's glossary, which contains many terms not found here, can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glossary. adminA Wikipedia administrator; administrators are users with extra technical privileges to delete and restore articles and block accounts and IP numbers AfDArticles for Deletion; an open forum for discussing article deletion on a case-by-case basis AGFAssume Good Faith; a guideline requesting civility and mutual trust among editors ANIThe Administrators' noticeboard for incidents, where Wikipedia administrators discuss and can be alerted to current problems with vandalism, edit wars, or other issues that require administrator attention anonAn anonymous or IP user who is not logged in when editing ArbComThe Arbitration committee; a body that resolves on-site disputes arbitrationThe top-level, formal, and lengthy dispute resolution procedure performed by the ArbCom backlinksThe wikilinks that link to a page, displayed by clicking What Links Here on the left-hand sidebar BOLDShort for the slogan, "Be bold in updating articles," which means if you see an article that needs work, don't hesitate to improve it botAn automated editing program operating on the site bureaucratAn administrator with power to promote other editors to administrator status COIConflict of interest, which occurs when the editor of an article is somehow personally invested in the topic CommonsSee Wikimedia Commons contribsThe list of contributions, or edits, made by an editor copyvioShort for copyright violation, such as an article or image that contains copyrighted material from another source CSDCriteria for speedy deletion; the policy detailing when articles may be deleted without going through a review process. See also speedy disambiguation pageA page that links to alternate articles with similar titles. For example, the Boston disambiguation page lists at least 20 places named Boston, as well as the rock band and WWII-era aircraft dead-end pageA Wikipedia page with no outbound wikilinks. See also orphan article diffThe display showing the differences between two versions of a wiki page DRVDeletion review; the appeals system for deleted articles editAny saved change made to a wiki page edit conflictA conflict that occurs when two editors try to save versions of a page at the same time edit countThe total number of edits made by a user's account edit warAn extended dispute between two or more editors over article content; during an edit war, changes to an article are reverted multiple times and no consensus emerges about the article's content external linkA hyperlink leading to a site outside Wikipedia featured articleAn esteemed category of peer-reviewed Wikipedia articles; each day a different featured article is spotlighted on the main page Featured ContentA category of Wikipedia content including featured articles, images, lists, and portals fork(verb) To split a wiki into two editing communities, with the intent to develop the existing content in different ways; (noun) the end product of such a split GFDLThe GNU Free Documentation License under which Wikipedia content is released IARIgnore All Rules; a traditional slogan suggesting Wikipedians should rise above formalities in unusual situations internal linkA hyperlink on a wiki leading to another location on the same wiki; an internal link is implemented in wikitext using special syntax rather than a URL interwikiTo link different wikis by extending internal link syntax; on Wikipedia, to link corresponding articles in different language versions of Wikipedia lead sectionThe introductory section of an article, which appears before the first heading main namespaceThe main or article namespace is the namespace that articles appear in; this namespace does not have a prefix Manual of StyleThe collection of Wikipedia writing guidelines (WP:MOS) meatpuppetAn account operated by someone who is acting for the benefit of another partisan editor. See also sockpuppet mediationA dispute resolution procedure, where a member of the mediation committee attempts to resolve a dispute between two or more editors through formal negotiation to reach consensus (WP:M) MediaWikiThe open-source, free software used to run the Wikipedia sites and many others Meta, Meta-WikiThe site at http://meta.wikimedia.org/, for coordinating Wikimedia Foundation projects mirror siteA website posting content from Wikipedia (legitimately, if GFDL conditions are fulfilled) monobookThe default skin or template on Wikipedia; this is how pages appear to anyone who has not logged in and changed his or her user preferences. See also skin namespaceA virtual container for different types of content on the wiki; namespaces are defined by different prefixes, such as talk: or Wikipedia:, which appear before page names; articles are in the main namespace NotabilityThe criteria that article topics should be notable to an outside observer, as determined through outside sources NPOVNeutral Point of View; the Wikipedia policy that article content should be presented in an objective, neutral, and substantiated manner orphan articleAn article that has no incoming wikilinks from other articles OWNA shortcut for Wikipedia's policy on no ownership of articles (WP:OWN); in conversation, the term OWN may serve as a warning not to take control of an article's content page historyThe list of edits that have been made to a wiki page, displaying in reverse chronological order and viewable from the History tab permalinkA link to a specific version of a Wikipedia page portalA project page that collects articles, images, and facts about a particular topic PRODProposed deletion; the deletion process for article deletions expected to be uncontroversial redirect:(noun) A page serving solely to send a reader to an article with another title; (verb) to redirect from one page to another revertTo return an article to a previous version; often abbreviated as rvv or rv in edit summaries RfCRequest for Comment; a part of the dispute resolution procedure in which editors can discuss issues such as the conduct of other users sandboxThe sandbox is a page set aside for test edits Wikipedia:Sandbox sister projectA Wikipedia sister project (for example, Wiktionary) is a multilingual collection of wikis set up by the Wikimedia Foundation to pursue a generally reference-related goal skinThe appearance of Wikipedia pages; logged-in users can select how Wikipedia pages appear in their user preferences sockpuppetA second account operated covertly by an editor with an existing account. See also meatpuppet speedyA speedy page deletion by an administrator, in line with the criteria for the speedy deletion policy and criteria for speedy deletion stewardAn administrator who can change any user's status on any Wikimedia project subpageA page constructed with a forward slash (/), as in User:Abelard/Letter to Heloise; subpages are not allowed in the main article namespace sysopShort for system operator; a synonym for administrator Three-Revert Rule (3RR)The prohibition on reverting an article more than three times in 24 hours, except for reverting vandalism transclusionTo include content stored on one page within another page, for example, by adding a template to a page transwikiTo move an article to another wiki (usually deleting the original article) user pageA registered user's personal page, usually containing information about the editor and his or her interests userfyTo move an article into the User namespace as a subpage watchlistA personal list of articles that can be maintained by any logged-in user that lists all recent edits to the articles on the list wikiAn online database of freely editable web pages, forming an evolving hypertext; Wikipedia is just one example of a wiki wiki engineThe software underlying a wiki. See also MediaWiki wiki markup languageThe special simplified syntax for wiki page editing and formatting; also called wiki syntax wikifyTo add appropriate internal links to existing text and to impose standard format and other house style wikilawyerA pedantic, over-literal interpreter of Wikipedia policy and custom wikilinkA synonym for an internal link. See also internal link WikimediaCommons A project of the Wikimedia Foundation to collect free media (images and video); Wikipedia articles can contain links to files on Commons WikimediaFoundation (WMF) The nonprofit organization that has overall responsibility for running the Wikipedia sites and sister projects wikitextThe text of a wiki page visible when editing (as opposed to what readers see)