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noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Glossary of terms commonly used on Wikipedia</div><table class="plainlinks ombox ombox-notice" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-empty-cell"></td><td class="mbox-text" style="text-align:center; margin:1em 0em;"><div class="hlist hlist-separated"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_abbreviations" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia abbreviations">Abbreviations</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_summary_legend" title="Wikipedia:Edit summary legend">Edit summaries</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Glossary</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext" title="Help:HTML in wikitext">HTML</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut_index" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut index">Shortcuts</a></li> <li><a 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href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary" title="Glossary">glossary</a> of terms commonly used on <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>. <dl><dd>For abbreviations often used in edit summaries, see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_summary_legend" title="Wikipedia:Edit summary legend">Wikipedia:Edit summary legend</a>.</dd> <dd>For common shorthands used in Articles for Deletion (AfD), see the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Guide to deletion">Wikipedia:Guide to deletion</a>.</dd> <dd>For a list of common abbreviations used within Wikipedia see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_abbreviations" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia abbreviations">Wikipedia:Wikipedia abbreviations</a>.</dd> <dd>See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Glossaries" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Glossaries">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Glossaries</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(abbreviations)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations)">Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations)</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Glossaries" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Glossaries">Wikipedia:WikiProject Glossaries</a>.</dd> <dd>For other useful directories and indexes, see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Directory" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Directory">Wikipedia:Directory</a>.</dd> <dd>For the use of terms in articles, see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Words_as_words" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Words as words</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-labelledby="tocheading" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div id="toctitle" class="toctitle" style="text-align:center;">Contents</div> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a 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For a full list of codes, see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes" title="List of ISO 639-1 codes">List of ISO 639-1 codes</a>. For a full list of Wikipedias, see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias" title="List of Wikipedias">List of Wikipedias</a> or <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias" class="extiw" title="m:List of Wikipedias">m:List of Wikipedias</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>ø</dt> <dd>The character ø has been used in <a href="#Edit_summary">edit summaries</a> to mean a <a href="#Null_edit">null edit</a>, except that if you can see the edit summary, then it was a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Dummy_edit" title="Help:Dummy edit">dummy edit</a> instead of a null edit.</dd> <dt>!=</dt> <dd>"Is not equal to". This usage comes from the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_operator" title="Relational operator">relational operator</a> in programming languages such as <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>!vote</dt> <dd>A response to a proposal, e.g. support or oppose, but in a Wikimedia context where the consensus-seeking decision process does not normally lead to a tally and a majority would not be binding. The expression is read as "not-vote", and imitates the use of the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_point#Computers" class="mw-redirect" title="Exclamation point">exclamation point</a> to mean 'not' in many programming languages. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Polling_is_not_a_substitute_for_discussion#Not-votes" title="Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion">Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion#Not-votes</a> and the essay <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_vote_on_everything" class="extiw" title="meta:Don't vote on everything">Don't vote on everything</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>+</dt> <dd>Used in <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ES" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ES">edit summaries</a> to show minor addition to text.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>?</dt> <dd>Used in <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ES" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ES">edit summaries</a> to show correction of odd minor error.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>0–9[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 0–9">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>0RR</dt> <dd>Voluntary or imposed zero-revert rule. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Revert_only_when_necessary#Zero-revert_rule" title="Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary">Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary § Zero-revert rule</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>1RR</dt> <dd>Voluntary or imposed (sometimes by <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBCOM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBCOM">ArbCom</a>) one-<a href="#Revert">revert</a> rule. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Revert_only_when_necessary#One-revert_rule" title="Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary">Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary § One-revert rule</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>2RR</dt> <dd>Voluntary or imposed two-revert rule.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>3RR</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="#Three-revert_rule">three-revert rule</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>5P</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars" title="Wikipedia:Five pillars">Five pillars of Wikipedia</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>A[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: A">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt>Abcdise, ABCDise, Abcdize, ABCDize</dt> <dd>Term sometimes used in <a href="#Edit_summary">edit summaries</a> to indicate that the edit was to sort list or other items into alphabetical order.</dd> <dt>Actionable</dt> <dd>In <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_content" title="Wikipedia:Featured content">featured content</a> promotion discussions, all objections to promotion must be actionable – that is, it must be possible to make changes (or "actions") so the specified problem can be resolved. For example, objecting on the basis that the citations need improvement is actionable because it is possible to make improvements in this area: more and better citations can be added, the citation style and syntax can be improved, etc. An example of an unactionable objection is that the topic is too controversial; Wikipedia editors can do nothing to change how controversial the topic is.</dd> <dt>Admin</dt> <dd>Short for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">Administrator</a>. A user with extra technical privileges for "custodial" work on Wikipedia – specifically, deleting and protecting pages, and blocking abusive users.</dd> <dt>AfC, AFC</dt> <dd>The <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WPAFC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WPAFC">articles for creation</a> project which reviews some articles created via the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard" title="Wikipedia:Article wizard">Article wizard</a>.</dd> <dt>AfD, AFD</dt> <dd>The <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion">Wikipedia:Articles for deletion</a> page. The AfD of an article refers to the discussion wherein Wikipedians consider whether an article should be kept or deleted. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Guide to deletion">Wikipedia:Guide to deletion</a> for explanation of some terms used on AfD.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>AGF, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AGF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AGF">WP:AGF</a></dt> <dd>Abbreviation for "<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume good faith">assume good faith</a>", a guideline whereby one should not assume an unwanted or disputed edit was done maliciously. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor" title="Hanlon's razor">Hanlon's razor</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>AIV</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for "<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism" title="Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism">Administrator intervention against vandalism</a>", a place and procedure for notifying <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">Wikipedia administrators</a> about urgent cases of vandalism.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>AN</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for "<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard">Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard</a>", a discussion location for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">Wikipedia administrators</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>ANI, AN/I</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for "<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents">Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents</a>", where <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">Wikipedia administrators</a> discuss issues which may or may not need urgent administrator attention.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Anchor</dt> <dd>An <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a> 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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Section" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Section">section</a> of a page, e.g., <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#Links_and_URLs" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:How to edit a page">Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Anon</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for "anonymous user". As a user does not necessarily lose their anonymity by registering or logging in, this term should be avoided. See <a href="#IP_user">IP user</a>.</dd> <dt>AOTW, AotW</dt> <dd>Abbreviation of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_of_the_week" title="Wikipedia:Article of the week">Wikipedia:Article of the week</a>, the former appellation of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Collaboration_of_the_week" title="Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week">Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week</a>.</dd> <dt>ArbCom, Arbcom, ARBCOM</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee">Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Arbitration</dt> <dd>The final step in the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Resolving_disputes" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Resolving disputes">dispute resolution</a> process. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee">Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee</a> (ARBCOM).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Arb</dt> <dd>Short for arbitrator – a member of the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee">Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Archive</dt> <dd>A <a href="#Subpage">subpage</a> of a <a href="#Talk_page">talk page</a> to which some parts of the discussion are transferred, to reduce the size of the Talk page. Rarely, the term may refer to the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Historical_archive" title="Wikipedia:Historical archive">Wikipedia:Historical archive</a> page, for outdated historical material. See also: <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page" title="Help:Archiving a talk page">Help:Archiving a talk page</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Article</dt> <dd>An encyclopedia entry. All articles are pages, but there are also pages that are not articles, such as this one. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:What is an article">Wikipedia:What is an article</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Astroturf</dt> <dd>Used only as a verb, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing" title="Astroturfing">astroturfing</a> refers to attempts at creating the impression of a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots" title="Grassroots">grassroots</a> movement by the use of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppet" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Sock puppet">sock puppets and meat puppets</a> to make an idea, poll, article, or deletion discussion seem to have more support than it actually has; alternatively, 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".</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>AUSC</dt> <dd>The former <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Audit_Subcommittee" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Audit Subcommittee">Audit Subcommittee</a>. Monitored and oversaw <a href="#Checkuser">CheckUser</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight" title="Wikipedia:Oversight">Oversight</a> use, and handled complaints concerning use of those privileges. Dissolved in 2016.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AUTOCONFIRM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AUTOCONFIRM">Autoconfirmed</a></dt> <dd>A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F" title="Wikipedia:Why create an account?">newly registered user</a> 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.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AWB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AWB">AWB</a></dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser" title="Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser">Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser</a>, a semi-automated Wikipedia editor.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>B[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: B">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt> <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BAD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BAD">WP:BAD</a></dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_bad_article_ideas" title="Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas">Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Bad faith nomination</dt> <dd>A bad faith nomination is the nomination of a page, or more pages (usually for deletion at <a href="#AFD">AFD</a>) for disingenuous reasons such as <a href="#POINT">making a point</a> or <a href="#Vandalism">vandalism</a>.</dd> <dt>Balancing the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a></dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_editing" title="Copy editing">Copy editing</a> the content on various <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a> sections such that text on the left <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TFA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TFA">Today's featured article</a>/<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DYK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DYK">Did you know</a> column and the right <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ITN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ITN">In the news</a>/<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OTD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OTD">On this day</a> column are "balanced", i.e. there is minimal blank space below both. Depending on the circumstances, this may also involve temporarily posting an additional hook or event onto one of the Main Page sections, beyond what the maximum number is stated on that particular section's guidelines.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Ban</dt> <dd>Banning is the 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 <a href="#NPOV">NPOV</a>), persistent adding of incorrect or doubtful material, refusal to cooperate with others, or extreme incivility and threats. Banned users are not necessarily blocked; however, it is one mechanism to enforce a ban. Any username or IP judged to be the same person can be blocked without any further reason. See also: <a href="#Block">Block</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Banner</dt> <dd>A banner is a template that is placed across the top of any page to indicate the page's type, details about its maintenance, etc. Banners are usually created using the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Mbox#Mbox_family" title="Template:Mbox">mbox family of templates</a>. They are often specifically <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_banner_templates" title="Category:WikiProject banner templates">linked to a WikiProject</a> 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 <a href="#Ban">bans</a> a troublesome editor.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Bar</dt> <dd>A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placeholder_name" title="Placeholder name">placeholder name</a>. See <a href="#Foo">Foo</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Bare URL</dt> <dd>A reference including only the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL" title="URL">URL</a> (web address) with no other text (publication name, article title, date, author, etc). See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bare_URLs" title="Wikipedia:Bare URLs">Wikipedia:Bare URLs</a>.Such references are liable to <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot" title="Link rot">link rot</a> and should be avoided.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Barnstar</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Barnstars" title="Wikipedia:Barnstars">Barnstars</a> 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 <a href="#Talk_page">talk page</a>, 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.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>BASC</dt> <dd>The <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Ban_Appeals_Subcommittee" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Ban Appeals Subcommittee">Ban Appeals Subcommittee</a>, where users formerly could appeal against their ban (or long-term block) after all other appeal processes have failed for them.</dd> <dt>Base name</dt> <dd>A base name is an <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Undisambiguated" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Undisambiguated">undisambiguated</a> article title.</dd> <dt>Be Bold, be bold, BOLD, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BOLD">WP:BOLD</a></dt> <dd>The exhortation that users should try to improve articles and fix mistakes themselves by editing, rather than complain about them. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold_in_updating_pages" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages">Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages</a>.</dd> <dt> BEANS, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BEANS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BEANS">WP:BEANS</a></dt> <dd>An allusion to the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Essay">essay</a> on not warning people about things they would never have imagined doing (it just gives them ideas): <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_stuff_beans_up_your_nose" title="Wikipedia:Don't stuff beans up your nose">Don't stuff beans up your nose</a>.</dd> <dt>Bit, the bit, admin bit</dt> <dd>Most often refers to an account being given the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrator" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Administrator">administrator</a> rights. When a user "gets the admin bit" they have just become an administrator. Also known as a "<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Flag (computing)">flag</a>" or the "admin flag". See also: <a href="#Mop">mop</a>. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels" title="Wikipedia:User access levels">Wikipedia:User access levels</a> for further information.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Bitey</dt> <dd>Being impolite or worse to a newcomer to Wikipedia. Also seen in the forms bite, biter, and bitten. From the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guideline" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Guideline">guideline</a> name, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_bite_the_newcomers" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Don't bite the newcomers">Wikipedia:Don't bite the newcomers</a> and its shortcut, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BITE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BITE">WP:BITE</a>. Related to <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume good faith">Wikipedia:Assume good faith</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Welcoming_committee" title="Wikipedia:Welcoming committee">Wikipedia:Welcoming committee</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>BJAODN</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bad_jokes_and_other_deleted_nonsense" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense">Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense</a>, 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.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blanking" class="mw-disambig" title="Wikipedia:Blanking">Blanking</a></dt> <dd>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 <a href="#Vandalism">vandalism</a>. Newcomers often mistake blanking for deletion. If someone wants their new article removed, they should simply add <code>{{<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Db-g7" title="Template:Db-g7">db-g7</a>}}</code> or <code>{{<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Delete" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Delete">delete</a>}}</code> to it and an administrator will delete the page.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Block, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLOCK">WP:BLOCK</a></dt> <dd>Action by an administrator, 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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy" title="Wikipedia:Blocking policy">Wikipedia:Blocking policy</a>. See also: <a href="#Ban">Ban</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>BLP, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLP">WP:BLP</a></dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons" title="Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons">Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons</a> – official Wikipedia policy, whereby articles about living people must be handled with great care.</dd> <dt>Blue link, bluelink</dt> <dd>A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikilink" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikilink">wikilink</a> to an article that already exists shows up blue (or purple if it has been recently visited by that reader/editor). See also <a href="#Sea_of_blue">Sea of blue</a>, <a href="#Red_link">red link</a>, and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Red_Link_Recovery" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery">WikiProject Red Link Recovery</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Blurb</dt> <dd>A one-sentence summary of a recent news item for <a href="#ITN">ITN</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Boilerplate text</dt> <dd>A standard message which can be added to an article using a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/template" class="extiw" title="m:template">template</a>. For example, {{<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Stub" title="Template:Stub">stub</a>}} is expanded to the following:<blockquote><div class="boilerplate metadata" id="stub" style="white-space: nowrap;">This article is a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Perfect_stub_article" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Perfect stub article">stub</a>. You can <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Find_or_fix_a_stub" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub">help</a> Wikipedia by <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit">expanding it</a>.</div></blockquote>See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boilerplate_(text)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boilerplate (text)">Boilerplate (text)</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots" title="Wikipedia:Bots">Bot</a></dt> <dd>A program that automatically or semi-automatically adds or edits Wikipedia-pages. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots" title="Wikipedia:Bots">Wikipedia:Bots</a>, <a href="#Rambot">Rambot</a>, <a href="#Vandalbot">Vandalbot</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BRD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BRD">BRD</a></dt> <dd>Bold, Revert, Discuss. A commonly-cited explanation of <a href="#Be_Bold">Be Bold</a> saying that the process is to make changes boldly, revert unhelpful changes, and discuss any disagreements rather than <a href="#Edit_war">edit war</a> by repeatedly counter-reverting.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Broken link</dt> <dd>A link to a nonexistent page, usually colored red, depending on your settings. May also refer to <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dead_links" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Dead links">dead links</a>. See also: <a href="#Edit_link">edit link</a>, <a href="#Red_link">red link</a>, and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Red_link" title="Wikipedia:Red link">Wikipedia:Red link</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Broken redirect</dt> <dd>Redirect to a non-existing page. Common opinion is that these should be removed.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Bump</dt> <dd>To update the posted <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ITN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ITN">WP:ITN</a> item with newly available information and bring it higher (bump) among other items accordingly.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Bureaucrat</dt> <dd>A Wikipedia Administrator who has been entrusted with promoting users to Administrator status. See also <a href="#Crat">Crat</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bureaucrats" title="Wikipedia:Bureaucrats">Wikipedia:Bureaucrats</a>.</dd> <dt> BURO</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_bureaucracy" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">NOT:Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>C[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: C">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Cabal</dt> <dd>Sometimes assumed to be a secretive organization responsible for the development of Wikipedia or for clandestinely enforcing certain ways of editing one disagrees with. The word is commonly 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 <a href="#POV">POV / NPOV</a> issues, <a href="#Admin">admin</a> 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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMOF" title="SMOF">SMOF</a> in science fiction fandom. See also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cabal" class="extiw" title="m:Cabal">m:Cabal</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Cabal" title="There Is No Cabal">There Is No Cabal</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal" title="Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal">Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CABAL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CABAL">WP:CABAL</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>CamelCase</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase" class="mw-redirect" title="CamelCase">CamelCase</a> (camel case or camel-case, originally known as medial capitals) is the practice of writing compound words or phrases in which the elements are joined without spaces, with each element's initial letter capitalized within the compound and the first letter is either upper or lower case – as in "LaBelle", BackColor, or "McDonald's". See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CamelCase_and_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:CamelCase and Wikipedia">Wikipedia:CamelCase and Wikipedia</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Campaigning</dt> <dd>The inappropriate <a href="#canvassing">canvassing</a> technique of attempting to sway the person reading a notification message about an ongoing discussion, through the use of tone, wording, or intent.</dd> <dt>Canvassing, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CANVAS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CANVAS">WP:CANVAS</a></dt> <dd>Canvassing is the inappropriate notification of a community discussion with the intention of influencing its outcome. Canvassing is considered <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DISRUPT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DISRUPT">disruptive</a> since it compromises the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CONS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CONS">consensus building</a> process. Canvassing comes in various types, including <a href="#Campaigning">campaigning</a>, <a href="#Votestacking">votestacking</a>, and <a href="#Spamming">spamming</a>. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Canvassing" title="Wikipedia:Canvassing">Wikipedia:Canvassing</a>.</dd> <dt>Cat, cat.</dt> <dd>"Category" or "categorize". Often pluralized as "cats" or "cats."</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Category</dt> <dd>A category is a collection of pages automatically formed by the Wikipedia servers by analyzing category tags in articles. Category tags look like this: <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computers" title="Category:Computers">Category:Computers</a>. The part after the ":" is the name of the Category. Adding a category tag causes a link to the category page to go to the bottom of the tagged page and results in the page being added to the category listing, also called category page. A list of basic categories to browse through can be found at <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Main_topic_classifications" title="Category:Main topic classifications">Category:Main topic classifications</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Category declaration, category tag</dt> <dd>A category name placed at the bottom of any page and the wiki-syntax of doing this. Pages are placed into 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 name of the category and serves as the title of the category page.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>CC-BY-SA</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike</a>. Wikipedia's articles are released under this license. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights" title="Wikipedia:Copyrights">Wikipedia:Copyrights</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>CCI</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributor_copyright_investigations" title="Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations">Contributor copyright investigations</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>CDT</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Current_date_and_time" title="Wikipedia:Current date and time">Current date and time</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>CE</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_copy-edit" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:How to copy-edit">Copy-edit</a>.</dd> <dt>CfD, CFD</dt> <dd>The <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion">Wikipedia:Categories for discussion</a> page (previously known as <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Categories for deletion">Wikipedia:Categories for deletion</a>).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>CfM</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion">Category for merging</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>CfR</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion">Category for renaming</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Chatty</dt> <dd>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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup" title="Wikipedia:Cleanup">cleanup</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CheckUser" title="Wikipedia:CheckUser">CheckUser</a></dt> <dd>An access level with which a user can see the IP addresses of logged-in users, usually to determine if someone is using <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SOCK">sockpuppets</a> to violate policy. Currently granted only to certain members of the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AC">Arbitration Committee</a> and some other trusted users.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Child</dt> <dd>A subpage or (more often) subcategory. Compare <a href="#Parent">Parent</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Child article</dt> <dd>An article which is one of two or more articles related in a hierarchical fashion, and subsidiary to another article known as the <a href="#Parent_article">parent article</a>. The article <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II" title="Causes of World War II">Causes of World War II</a> is a child article of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. See <a href="#Summary_style">Summary style</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CIR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CIR">CIR</a></dt> <dd>Competence Is Required. An essay commonly cited to point out that even well-intentioned editors (see <a href="#AGF">Assume Good Faith</a>) can be disruptive if they frequently get things wrong.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Circular reference</dt> <dd>A reference which cites another page within Wikipedia which in its turn cites the first one. See "<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reference" title="Circular reference">Circular reference</a>". Often circular references create a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Logical fallacy">logical fallacy</a>. Another type of circular references is a wikilink in some page to a page which is a redirect to the first one. While mostly harmless, the latter ones are useless and annoying. See also: <a href="#Self-link">Self-link</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Circular redirect</dt> <dd>Also called self-redirect. A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirect</a> which <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikilink" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikilink">wikilinks</a> back to itself, either directly or via a chain of redirects. A special case of <a href="#Circular_reference">circular reference</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Citation <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CITE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CITE">WP:CITE</a></dt> <dd>A descriptive string which uniquely identifies a source of information (book, article, webpage, etc.) for the purpose of verifying article content. Synonym: reference. (Wikipedia usage differs from standard English, which is more akin to quotation.) See also: <a href="#Footnote">footnote</a>.</dd> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">Citing sources</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Civil</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility" title="Wikipedia:Civility">Civility</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>CLS</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigational_templates" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigational templates">Cats, lists, boxes</a>.</dd> <dt>Cleanup, cl</dt> <dd>The process of repairing articles that contain errors of grammar, are poorly formatted, or contain irrelevant material. See also: <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup_process" title="Wikipedia:Cleanup process">Wikipedia:Cleanup process</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Climbing the Reichstag</dt> <dd>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 – <a href="#POINT">WP:POINT</a> (qv). See also: <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathers_for_justice#Activities" class="mw-redirect" title="Fathers for justice">Activities of "Fathers for Justice"</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_climbing_the_Reichstag_dressed_as_Spider-Man" title="Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man">Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>cmt, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>cm</dt> <dd>Comment.</dd> <dt>CNR</dt> <dd>Same as <a href="#XNR">XNR</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>COI</dt> <dd>Acronym for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest" title="Wikipedia:Conflict of interest">Wikipedia:Conflict of interest</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>COIN</dt> <dd>Acronym for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest_noticeboard" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Conflict of interest noticeboard">Wikipedia:Conflict of interest noticeboard</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Comment out</dt> <dd>To hide from normal display whilst retaining the material for editors to see. This is done by inserting the characters <code></code> at the end. These character strings are used to <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimit" class="mw-redirect" title="Delimit">delimit</a> comments in HTML code.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Commons</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons" title="Wikimedia Commons">Wikimedia Commons</a> is an online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal" title="Wikipedia:Community portal">Community Portal</a></dt> <dd>One of Wikipedia's main pages for editor communication. It can often be found linked to on the sidebar (on the left side in most skins), and is a page that lists important notices, 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.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">Consensus</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CON" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CON">WP:CON</a></dt> <dd>The mechanism by which all decisions on Wikipedia are nominally made. Not the same as a "majority vote" (cf <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Polling_is_not_a_substitute_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion">Polling is not a substitute for discussion</a>) nor unanimity.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Container_category" title="Wikipedia:Container category">Container category</a></dt> <dd>A category which is intended to contain only subcategories, and have no articles (other than perhaps a <a href="#Key_article">Key article</a>) placed in it. An example would be <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_architecture_by_state" title="Category:American architecture by state">Category:American architecture by state</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Contribs, contributions</dt> <dd>Edits in wikipedia, supposed to be useful, unlike <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VANDAL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:VANDAL">vandalism</a>. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:User_contributions" title="Help:User contributions">Help:User contributions</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Contributor</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Editor">Editor</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Convenience_links" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Convenience links">Convenience links</a></dt> <dd>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 other editors do not like.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyedit" class="mw-redirect" title="Copyedit">Copyedit</a></dt> <dd>A change to an article that affects only formatting, grammar, and other presentational aspects. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Basic_copyediting" title="Wikipedia:Basic copyediting">Wikipedia:Basic copyediting</a>.</dd> <dt>Copyvio, CopyVio, copy vio, copyviol</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_violation" class="mw-redirect" title="Copyright violation">Copyright violation</a>. Usually used in an edit summary when deleting copyrighted material added without complying with Wikipedia copyright verification procedures. See also <a href="#CV">CV</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights" title="Wikipedia:Copyrights">Wikipedia:Copyrights</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>COTW</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Collaboration_of_the_week" title="Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week">Collaboration of the week</a>, an article needing improvement that is selected by vote to be the subject of widespread cooperative editing for a week.</dd> <dt>'Crat</dt> <dd>Short for <a href="#Bureaucrat">Bureaucrat</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Cross-namespace redirects</dt> <dd>A <a href="#Redirect">redirect</a> which links from one type of <a href="#Namespace">namespace</a> 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 <a href="#XNR">XNR</a>, <a href="#CNR">CNR</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">Wikipedia:Namespace</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cross-namespace_redirects" title="Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects">Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects</a> (essay).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Cruft</dt> <dd>A somewhat dismissive 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 Fancruft (cruft articles, usually about fictional subjects, significant only to a specific group of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_(person)" title="Fan (person)">fans</a>) and Listcruft (crufty list articles). 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.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>CSB</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias">WikiProject Countering systemic bias</a> 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.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>CSD, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CSD">WP:CSD</a></dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion">Criteria for speedy deletion</a>, 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.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Current</dt> <dd>On a user's list of contributions, (current) indicates that the article has not been edited by anyone else since the user last edited it.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Current version</dt> <dd>The (current version) of a page is the page as it is normally seen. Other versions exist in the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Page history">page history</a> and can be viewed and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Permalink" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Permalink">permalinked</a> but do not normally show in searches.</dd> <dt>Cut-and-paste move, cut and paste move, cut 'n' paste move, cut-n-paste move, etc.</dt> <dd>Moving a complete page by taking the text of the page, and putting it into the edit window for the second page. Usually done by novices to rename a page. The correct way of page renaming is the 'Move page' option. Cut-n-paste move is generally a bad idea because it splits the edit history of the page. Cut and paste moves can be fixed by administrators. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_fix_cut_and_paste_moves" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves">Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves</a>.</dd> <dt>CV, cv</dt> <dd>Abbreviation of <a href="#Copyvio">Copyvio</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>CVG</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game" title="Video game">Computer and video games</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>D[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: D">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt>Dab, WP:D</dt> <dd>Abbreviation of <a href="#Disambiguation">Disambiguation</a> (or disambiguate[d]) (from the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">Wikipedia:Disambiguation</a> shortcut <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DAB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DAB">WP:DAB</a>).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Dabify</dt> <dd>To convert (typically a redirect) into a disambiguation page.</dd> <dt>Dablink, DAB link, etc.</dt> <dd>1. Abbreviation of "disambiguation link"; a link that leads to a <a href="#Disambiguation_page">disambiguation page</a>.</dd> <dd>2. To <a href="#Disambiguation">disambiguate</a> a <a href="#Link">link</a> within the text of a page.</dd> <dd>3. A link at the top of an article to one or more other articles with similar titles (a <a href="#Hatnote">hatnote</a>), or the addition of such.</dd> <dt>DAB page, dab page</dt> <dd>Same as <a href="#Disambiguation_page">disambiguation page</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Data dump</dt> <dd>To import material from outside sources into Wikipedia without editing, formatting and linking (<a href="#Wikify">Wikifying</a>). This is frowned upon by most <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedians">Wikipedians</a>, and is often a <a href="#Copyvio">copyvio</a>.</dd> <dt>Db, DB</dt> <dd>1. An abbreviation for "delete because". Almost all <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Speedy_deletion_templates" title="Category:Speedy deletion templates">templates</a> that are used to <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion">request speedy deletion</a> according to <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Speedy_deletions" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Speedy deletions">the procedure</a> have this prefix (e.g., {{<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Db-advert" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Db-advert">db-advert</a>}}, {{<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Db-nonsense" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Db-nonsense">db-nonsense</a>}}, {{<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Db-band" title="Template:Db-band">db-band</a>}}. See also <a href="#Speedy">Speedy</a>.</dd> <dd>2. Wikipedia's <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database" title="Database">database</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Dead-end page</dt> <dd>A page that has no links to existing other pages, except interlanguage links. <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:DeadendPages" title="Special:DeadendPages">Special:Deadendpages</a> lists them, but this function is disabled in some Wikimedia projects for performance reasons.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>De-admin</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Desysop">Desysop</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>De-bold</dt> <dd>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 because 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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">Manual of Style</a>, should be plain). See also <a href="#De-bold">un-bold</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Deleted edit</dt> <dd>An edit that is no longer listed in an editor's contributions because the page has subsequently been deleted.</dd> <dt>Deletionist</dt> <dd>Someone who actively attempts to delete pages others prefer to keep. Deletionism is the idea that Wikipedia should be selective in the topics it covers and should remove articles that do not meet certain standards. Often used as a derogatory term. The term 'inclusionist' for the opposite party is less used. See also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/deletionism" class="extiw" title="m:deletionism">m:deletionism</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/inclusionism" class="extiw" title="m:inclusionism">m:inclusionism</a>, and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipedia" title="Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia">Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>DENY</dt> <dd>Used to mark reversions of edits by known <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:LTA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LTA">long-term vandals</a>, or <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DUCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DUCK">obvious</a> or proven <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SOCK">sockpuppets</a> of blocked users (see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DENY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DENY">WP:DENY</a>).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Delrev, DRV</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review" title="Wikipedia:Deletion review">Deletion review</a>.</dd> <dt>Deorphan, De-orphan</dt> <dd>To make a page no longer an <a href="#Orphan">orphan</a>. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Orphan" title="Wikipedia:Orphan">Wikipedia:Orphan</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Deprecated</dt> <dd>1. (historical) Techie-speak for "tolerated in or supported by a system but not recommended (i.e., beware: may well be on the way out)".</dd> <dd>2. The term is also used to refer to pages, templates or categories that have been <a href="#Orphan">orphaned</a> or are no longer used.</dd> <dd>3. In non-technical English, the word means, "deplored or strongly disapproved of".</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Desc</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for "description". Often used in edit summaries.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Destination</dt> <dd>The destination of a name is the page or section to which it takes the reader in the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_namespace" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Main namespace">main namespace</a>. If the page by that name is a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirect</a>, then the redirect target is the destination. Otherwise (typically if the page is an <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Article">article</a> or a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation page">disambiguation page</a>) the page itself is the destination.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Desysop</dt> <dd>Take away someone's sysop (<a href="#Administrator">Administrator</a>) status. <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Former_administrators" title="Wikipedia:Former administrators">Used very rarely</a>, in cases where someone has voluntarily elected to resign such status, or is judged to have <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Possible_misuses_of_admin_privileges" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Possible misuses of admin privileges">misused their admin powers</a>. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_de-adminship" title="Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship">Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship</a>.</dd> <dt>Developer, dev</dt> <dd>Usually capitalized. A user who can make direct changes to Wikipedia's underlying software and possibly also the database, often being one of the <a href="#MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a> developers (see next definition) or other <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> technicians. Technically, it is the highest user access level, but Developer privileges are generally used only at request. Sometimes referred to by other terms such as "system administrators" or "sysadmins", to distinguish from MediaWiki developers. See also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developers" class="extiw" title="m:Developers">m:Developers</a> for a list of developers and further information.</dd> <dd>Usually not capitalized. One of the developers of the <a href="#MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a> software; often but not always a Wikipedia Developer (in the above sense).</dd> <dt>De-wikify, dewikify</dt> <dd>To remove (de-link) some of the <a href="#Wikify">wikification</a> of an article. This can be done to remove <a href="#Self-ref">self-references</a> or excessive common-noun wikification (also known as the <a href="#Sea_of_blue">sea of blue</a> effect).</dd> <dt>Dicdef, dictdef, dic def, dic-def</dt> <dd>Short for a dictionary definition. This term is commonly used on <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion">Wikipedia:Articles for deletion</a> when referring to an article that is more similar to a dictionary article than an encyclopedia one. Usually a reason for transwikifying to <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary" title="Wiktionary">Wiktionary</a>. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_dictionary" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary">Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Diff" title="Help:Diff">Diff</a></dt> <dd>The difference between two versions of page, as displayed using the Page history feature, or from <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="Special:RecentChanges">Recent Changes</a>. The versions to compare are encoded in the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL" title="URL">URL</a>, so you can make a link by copying and pasting it, for instance when discussing a change on an article's talk page.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">Disambiguation</a>, disambig</dt> <dd>The process of resolving the conflict that occurs when articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title. See also <a href="#Dab">dab</a>.</dd> <dt>Disambiguation page, DAB page, dab page</dt> <dd>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)".</dd> <dt>Disambiguator, disambiguation tag</dt> <dd>The extra text added to an ambiguous <a href="#base_name">base name</a> to form an unambiguous <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_title" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Article title">article title</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>DMCA takedown request</dt> <dd>A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Limitation_Act#Notice_from_copyright_owner" title="Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act">filing</a> to the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> asking them to remove an image or other content from Wikimedia on the grounds that it constitutes a copyright violation and the host has responsibility for that under the U.S.'s <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA" class="mw-redirect" title="DMCA">DMCA</a> law.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Double redirect</dt> <dd>A <a href="#Redirect">redirect</a> 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 <a href="#Repoint">Repoint</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Duck</dt> <dd>See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DUCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DUCK">the duck test</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Dupe</dt> <dd>Short for a duplicate article. Often used when identifying a duplicate page that needs to be <a href="#Merge">merged</a> with another.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>DRV</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Delrev">Delrev</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>DYK</dt> <dd>An abbreviation for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know" title="Template:Did you know">Template:Did you know</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>E[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: E">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt>EC, ec, e.c., Ec, (e/c), etc.</dt> <dd><a href="#Edit_conflict">Edit conflict</a>, or <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_confirmed" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Extended confirmed">WP:Extended confirmed</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_conflict" title="Help:Edit conflict">Edit conflict</a></dt> <dd>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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Edit war">edit wars</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editcountitis" title="Wikipedia:Editcountitis">Editcountitis</a></dt> <dd>A humorous term for having an unhealthy obsession with the number of edits a person makes to Wikipedia, usually applied to one trying to make as many edits as possible. Often cited on <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RFA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RFA">Requests for Adminship</a> regarding people who judge people on sheer edit count rather than personal merit.</dd> <dt>Edit creep, editcreep, edit-creep</dt> <dd>The tendency for high quality articles to degrade over time. Articles usually achieve <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GA">good article</a> or <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FA">featured article</a> 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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_creep" title="Scope creep">scope creep</a>.)</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Edit link</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Broken_link">Broken link</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summary" title="Help:Edit summary">Edit summary</a></dt> <dd>The contents of the "Summary:" field below the edit box on the "Edit this page" page.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Editor</dt> <dd>Anyone who writes or modifies Wikipedia articles. That includes you. Other terms with the same meaning: contributor, user.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Edit war">Edit war</a></dt> <dd>Two or more parties continually making their preferred changes to a page, each persistently undoing the changes made by the opposite party. Often, an edit war is the result of an argument that could not be resolved on a talk page. Edit wars are not permitted and may lead to blocks. Sometimes termed "revert war", see also the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Three_revert_rule" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Three revert rule">three revert rule</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Enc</dt> <dd>Short for "encyclopedic" or "encyclopedic value". For example, used on <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">featured pictures</a> discussions.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Eponymous</dt> <dd>An eponymous category is a category that has the same name as an article and vice versa. For example <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> and the eponymous <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:George_W._Bush" title="Category:George W. Bush">Category:George W. Bush</a>. See also <a href="#Key_article">key article</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Essay">Essay</a></dt> <dd>A page that consists of the generally accepted opinions of the authors, rather than verifiable fact.</dd> <dt>External link, ext. ln., extlink, ext lk, EL, etc.</dt> <dd>A link to a website not owned by <a href="#Wikimedia">Wikimedia</a>. The alternatives are an internal link, wikilink or free link within Wikipedia, and an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/interwiki_link" class="extiw" title="m:interwiki link">interwiki link</a> to a sister project. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links" title="Wikipedia:External links">Wikipedia:External links</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spam" title="Wikipedia:Spam">Wikipedia:Spam</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>F[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: F">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>FA</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles" title="Wikipedia:Featured articles">Featured article</a>, an article that has been selected as representing "the best of Wikipedia". Articles become featured articles when a <a href="#FAC">FAC</a> gets consensus for promotion.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>FAC</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates" title="Wikipedia:Featured article candidates">Featured article candidate</a>, an article that has been proposed for consideration to be <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles" title="Wikipedia:Featured articles">featured</a> as one of the best in Wikipedia.</dd></dl> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Fancruft</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Cruft">Cruft</a>.</dd> <dt>FAR</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_review" title="Wikipedia:Featured article review">Featured article review</a>, a process for the improvement or delisting of <a href="#FA">featured articles</a> that may no longer meet the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_criteria" title="Wikipedia:Featured article criteria">quality standards</a> for "featured" status, either because the featured article criteria, the article's topic, or the article itself changed. The process begins with a discussion on the article's talk page. If the issues are not resolved, a user may list the article on FAR, where a discussion takes place to help identify and address areas where improvement may be needed. After the discussion, if no consensus emerges to keep the article featured, the review moves on to the next stage, featured article removal candidates (FARC). Here, the article's "featured" status is considered for removal.</dd> <dt>FfD, FFD</dt> <dd>An abbreviation for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Files_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Files for discussion">Files for discussion</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>FIST</dt> <dd><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php" class="extiw" title="tools:~magnus/fist.php">Free Image Search Tool</a>, which will look for free images for articles, either manually listed or by category.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Float, floating</dt> <dd>To add coding to a template, image, or other feature so it appears in a specific position on the page. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial#Thumbnails" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Picture tutorial">Wikipedia:Picture tutorial § Thumbnails</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table#Floating_table" title="Help:Table">Help:Table § Floating table</a>, and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Section#Floating_the_TOC" title="Help:Section">Help:Section § Floating the TOC</a> for examples.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>fmt</dt> <dd>Format. Abbreviation commonly used in edit summaries to signify formatting of the page, or <a href="#Wikify">wikification</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Foo</dt> <dd>A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placeholder_name" title="Placeholder name">placeholder name</a>, 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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar" title="Foobar">Foobar</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Footnote</dt> <dd>A labeled string of text rendered at the bottom of an article page by the Wikimedia software, and linked to by one or more bracketed superscripts (usually numeric) in the running text of the article. Footnotes are generated by embedding the footnote text inside <ref> tags in the body of the article. When the text string is a <a href="#Citation">citation</a>, then it is called a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CITEFOOT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CITEFOOT">citation footnote</a>; otherwise an explanatory footnote. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes" title="Help:Footnotes">Help:Footnotes</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Forest fire</dt> <dd>A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Flame war">flame war</a> 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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">wikis</a>, due to well-established boundaries for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_for_comments" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Request for comments">user conduct</a>, clear guidelines for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">article content</a>, and a formal <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution" title="Wikipedia:Dispute resolution">dispute resolution process</a>. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildfire" title="Wildfire">wildfire</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/ForestFire" class="extiw" title="meatball:ForestFire">MeatBall:ForestFire</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Fork</dt> <dd>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 <a href="#GFDL">GFDL</a>, and one of an editor's least disputed <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Rights">rights</a>), or the split of an article, usually to accommodate different <a href="#POV">POVs</a>. The latter is often called a POV fork and generally regarded as highly undesirable.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>FP</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">Featured pictures</a>, a picture that has been selected as representing "the best of Wikipedia". Pictures become featured pictures when a <a href="#FAC">FPC</a> gets consensus for promotion.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>FPC</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates" title="Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates">Featured picture candidate</a>, a picture that has been proposed for consideration to be <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">featured</a> as one of the best in Wikipedia.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Free link</dt> <dd>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 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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redlink" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redlink">broken</a>, 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.</dd> <dt>Friendly notices</dt> <dd>A contributor who sends friendly notices as a means of <a href="#Canvassing">canvassing</a> appropriately must ensure these <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">neutrally</a> worded notifications are sent to a small number of editors, intending to improve rather than to influence a discussion and while avoiding <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Canvassing#Excessive_cross-posting" title="Wikipedia:Canvassing">excessive cross-posting</a>. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Canvassing" title="Wikipedia:Canvassing">Wikipedia:Canvassing</a>.</dd> <dt>Full title</dt> <dd>The <a href="#base_name">base name</a> of an article plus any <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguator#Naming_the_specific_topic_articles" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguator">disambiguators</a>. For example, the full title of the article at <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_(clothing)" title="Top (clothing)">top (clothing)</a> is top (clothing), consisting of the base name top and the disambiguator (clothing). If there are no disambiguators, the full title is identical to the base name.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>G[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: G">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>GA</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles" title="Wikipedia:Good articles">Good article</a>. Hence <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>GAN <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations" title="Wikipedia:Good article nominations">Good article nomination</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>gadget</dt> <dd>A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gadget" title="Wikipedia:Gadget">gadget</a> is a JavaScript tool that can be enabled from your Wikipedia preferences.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Gdanzig</dt> <dd>An edit war over which of several possible names should be used for a place. The word is a portmanteau of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk" title="Gdańsk">Gdańsk</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danzig" class="mw-redirect" title="Danzig">Danzig</a>, the two names about which a venerable edit war ensued. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gdansk/Vote" class="mw-redirect" title="Talk:Gdansk/Vote">Talk:Gdansk/Vote</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>GF</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume good faith">Good faith</a>, a tenet of Wikipedia.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>GFDL</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License" title="GNU Free Documentation License">GNU Free Documentation License</a>. Many of Wikipedia's articles are released under this license. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights" title="Wikipedia:Copyrights">Wikipedia:Copyrights</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>GFE</dt> <dd>1. A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume good faith">good faith</a> edit.</dd> <dd>2. A good faith editor.</dd> <dt>Ghits, G-hits, GHits</dt> <dd>"Google hits" – the number of results returned on searches for a particular word or phrase using the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> search engine. Sometimes used as a very rough assessment of notability on <a href="#AFD">AFD</a>. See also <a href="#Google_test">Google test</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>gloss, glosses, glossing</dt> <dd>In editing, a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLOSSING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GLOSSING">gloss</a> is brief explanation that accompanies a text. It can also refer to the addition, modification, or deletion of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:LINK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LINK">hyperlinks like this one</a>.</dd> <dt> <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiGnome" title="Wikipedia:WikiGnome">gnome</a></dt> <dd>A wikipedia editor who primarily engages in gnoming: making minor, but helpful edits.</dd> <dt>Godwin's Law</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Godwin's Law">Godwin's Law</a> is concerned with <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacies" class="mw-redirect" title="Logical fallacies">logical fallacies</a> such as <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum" title="Reductio ad Hitlerum">reductio ad Hitlerum</a>, wherein an idea is unduly dismissed or rejected on the ground of it being associated with persons generally considered "evil".</dd> <dd>Godwin's Law states, "As an online discussion grows longer, the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability#Mathematical_treatment" title="Probability">probability</a> of a comparison involving <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazis" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazis">Nazis</a> or <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler" class="mw-redirect" title="Hitler">Hitler</a> 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.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>good hand, bad hand</dt> <dd>Using one resource only for good things and a second, similar resource only for bad things, thereby deflecting any criticism from the first resource by attracting it with the second. In short, keeping one hand clean by using only the other hand for all dirty things.</dd> <dd>On Wikipedia, used in phrasing such as, "A good hand, bad hand situation," usually referring to the behavior made under two editor accounts. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry#Inappropriate_uses_of_alternative_accounts" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Sock puppetry">Wikipedia:Sock puppetry § Inappropriate uses of alternative accounts</a>, in particular the bullet point with direct shortcuts <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GHBH" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GHBH">WP:GHBH</a> & <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HAND" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:HAND">WP:HAND</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Google test</dt> <dd>Running sections or titles of articles through the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> 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 <a href="#Ghits">Ghits</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Search_engine_test" title="Wikipedia:Search engine test">Wikipedia:Google test</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>GPL</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a>. <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki" title="MediaWiki">Wikipedia's software</a> is released under this license.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>gr</dt> <dd>Grammar. Used in <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_summaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Edit summaries">edit summaries</a> to indicate that a grammar problem is being corrected.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>H[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: H">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagiography" title="Hagiography">Hagiography</a></dt> <dd>Wording that is excessively fulsome, adulatory or glowing in a biographical article, to the point of violating <a href="#NPOV">NPOV</a>.</dd> <dt>Handwaving, armwaving</dt> <dd>An assertion not supported by evidence; most frequently seen in <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion">articles for deletion</a> discussions, when editors may assert that a subject is <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability" title="Wikipedia:Notability">notable</a>, but fail to make a convincing case. Such arguments are usually given less weight. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handwave" class="mw-redirect" title="Handwave">Handwave</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hatnote" title="Wikipedia:Hatnote">Hatnote</a></dt> <dd>A short note placed at the top of an article before the primary topic.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Hard redirect</dt> <dd>Equivalent to the usual <a href="#Redirect">redirect</a>, used to differentiate it from the <a href="#Soft_redirect">soft redirect</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Hat</dt> <dd>1. A collapsed (section of) discussion enclosed by {{<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Hat" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Hat">hat</a>}} (<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Hidden_archive_top" title="Template:Hidden archive top">Template:Hidden archive top</a>) and {{<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Hab" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Hab">hab</a>}} (<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Hidden_archive_bottom" title="Template:Hidden archive bottom">Template:Hidden archive bottom</a>) templates. See: Hatted, Hatting</dd> <dd>2. A specific user right, in the context of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hat_collecting" title="Wikipedia:Hat collecting">Wikipedia:Hat collecting</a>.</dd> <dt>Hatted, Hatting</dt> <dd>Refers to using <code>{{<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Hat" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Hat">hat</a>}}</code> (<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Hidden_archive_top" title="Template:Hidden archive top">Template:Hidden archive top</a>) to close and collapse a discussion to discourage further editing, without removing it completely from the page.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>History</dt> <dd>All previous versions of an article, from its creation to its current state. Also called page history. See also: <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_history" title="Help:Page history">Help:Page history</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Hook</dt> <dd>A short entry at <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know" title="Wikipedia:Did you know">Wikipedia:Did you know</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Hopelessly POV</dt> <dd>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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">Wikipedia policy</a> and unable to be made neutral. Other Wikipedians consider the accusation "hopelessly POV" as being merely an excuse to suppress certain points of view.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>I[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: I">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt>IANAL, IANaL</dt> <dd>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).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>IAR, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules" title="Wikipedia:Ignore all rules">Ignore All Rules</a></dt> <dd>A policy which states simply "If a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">rule</a> prevents you from improving or maintaining <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>, ignore it." There are several essays on what this means, including <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_%22Ignore_all_rules%22_means" title="Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means">Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means</a>, and an encyclopedic <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignore_all_rules" title="Ignore all rules">article on the topic</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>IAW</dt> <dd>An abbreviation for "in accordance with", as in "IAW [[WP:RS]]".</dd> <dt>IBAN, I-BAN</dt> <dd>An abbreviation referring to an <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IBAN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IBAN">interaction ban</a> between two or more editors, usually used to reduce or eliminate a conflict.</dd> <dt>ICBH</dt> <dd>An abbreviation for I couldn't be happier.</dd> <dt>IfD, IFD</dt> <dd>An abbreviation for Images and media for deletion, the old name for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Files_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Files for discussion">Files for discussion</a>.</dd> <dt>Iff</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_and_only_if" title="If and only if">If and only if</a>.</dd> <dt>Inclusionist</dt> <dd>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 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inclusionism" class="extiw" title="m:Inclusionism">Inclusionism</a> – radical Inclusionists vote "Keep" on every <a href="#AfD">AfD</a> 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.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Indef</dt> <dd>Short for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy#Indefinite_blocks" title="Wikipedia:Blocking policy">indefinite block</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox" title="Help:Infobox">Infobox</a></dt> <dd>A consistently formatted table which is present in articles with a common subject. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox" title="Help:Infobox">Help:Infobox</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(infoboxes)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes)">Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes)</a> for a how-to guide. See also: <a href="#Navbox">navbox</a>, <a href="#Taxobox">taxobox</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Internal link</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Free_link">free link</a>, <a href="#Wikilink">wikilink</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking" title="Help:Interwiki linking">Interwiki</a></dt> <dd>A link to a sister project; this can be an <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Interlanguage_links" title="Help:Interlanguage links">interlanguage link</a> to a corresponding article in a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias" class="extiw" title="m:List of Wikipedias">different language</a> in Wikipedia, or a link to a project such as Wikibooks, Meta, etc. The abbreviations iw or i/w are often used in <a href="#Edit_summary">edit summaries</a> when an interwiki link has been added or changed.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>IOT</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for "In order to".</dd> <dt>IP, IP contributor, IP user, IP editor</dt> <dd>An <a href="#Editor">editor</a> who <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPs_are_human_too" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IPs are human too">contributes without an account</a>. See also: <a href="#Anon">anon</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>IPA</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet</a>, widely used on Wikipedia to indicate pronunciation. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">Help:IPA</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">Help:IPA/English</a>, the more detailed <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_chart_for_English_dialects" class="mw-redirect" title="IPA chart for English dialects">IPA chart for English dialects</a>, and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(pronunciation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation)">Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation)</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>IRC</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC" title="Wikipedia:IRC">Internet Relay Chat</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>IRL</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for "<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_life" title="Real life">In real life</a>".</dd> <dt>Isolated, isolated article</dt> <dd>An isolated article is an article that cannot be reached via a series of links from the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a>. See also <a href="#Orphan">Orphan</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>ITHAWO</dt> <dd>I thought he already was one. Used about people listed in 'admin' requests.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>ITN</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:In_the_news" title="Wikipedia:In the news">Wikipedia:In the news</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>i/w, iw</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Interwiki">Interwiki</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>J[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: J">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Janitor</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Admin">Admin</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Jimbo</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a>, co-founder of Wikipedia.</dd></dl> <h2><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>K[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: K">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Kill / Kill with fire / Kill with a stick / Kill with a <a href="#Silver_bullet">silver bullet</a></dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism" title="Dysphemism">Dysphemisms</a> for "deleting" a page, expressing some disgust for the existence of the page.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>L[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: L">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Language link</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Interwiki">Interwiki</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Laundry list</dt> <dd>See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Embedded_lists" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Embedded lists">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Embedded lists</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Laundromat" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Laundromat">Wikipedia:WikiProject Laundromat</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Lead, Lede</dt> <dd>The introduction or "lead paragraph" of a Wikipedia article; the section before the table of contents and first heading.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>LCV, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>LGV</dt> <dd>Edit summary abbreviation for Last Correct Version or Last Good Version (typically after a series of problematic edits).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Link</dt> <dd>See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Menu/Links" title="Help:Menu/Links">Help:Menu/Links</a>.[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>]</dd> <dt>Link farm</dt> <dd>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.</dd> <dt>Link rot</dt> <dd>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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot" title="Link rot">link rot</a>.</dd> <dt>List, list article</dt> <dd>See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists" class="mw-disambig" title="Wikipedia:Lists">Wikipedia:Lists</a>.</dd> <dt>Listcruft</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Cruft">Cruft</a>.</dd> <dt>Listify</dt> <dd>To delete a category and turn the contents into a list. Sometimes used in <a href="#CFD">CFD</a> discussions as shorthand for "this group of articles would be better if presented as a list, rather than as a category".</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Lk</dt> <dd>Landmarks: Major landmarks; also used as an abbreviation for "link" (see above).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>LTA</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse" title="Wikipedia:Long-term abuse">Long Term Abuse</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Lugo</dt> <dd>A meme associated with stagnation or the lack of sufficient updates on the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Main page">Main page</a>. It originated from an incident in 2008, when an image of President of Paraguay <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Lugo" title="Fernando Lugo">Fernando Lugo</a> stayed up on the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:In_the_news" title="Template:In the news">In the news</a> section for well over a week. See also: <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lugo%27s_law" title="Wikipedia:Lugo's law">Wikipedia:Lugo's law</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-01-31/Dispatches" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-01-31/Dispatches">Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-01-31/Dispatches</a> – Wikipedia Signpost article on the process and history of In the news.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>M[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: M">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt>m</dt> <dd>On the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="Special:RecentChanges">Recent changes</a> page, m (lower case, bold) indicates a <a href="#Minor_edit">minor edit</a>.</dd> <dt>Magic word, magicword, magic-word</dt> <dd>a symbol that is recognized by the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki" title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a> software and, when seen in the non-commented text of the page, triggers the software to use the symbol directly instead of displaying it or <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Transclusion">transcluding</a> a page with that name.</dd> <dt>Main Page</dt> <dd>The page to which every user not specifying an article is redirected. The <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a> contains links to current events, presents certain articles (like a <a href="#FA">featured article</a> 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 <a href="#Protected_page">protected</a>.</dd> <dt>Main Page balance</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Balancing_the_Main_Page">Balancing the Main Page</a>.</dd> <dt>Mainspace</dt> <dd>The main article <a href="#Namespace">namespace</a> (i.e., not a talk page, not a "Wikipedia:" page, not a "User:" page, etc.).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>MC</dt> <dd>The former Mediation Committee. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Committee" title="Wikipedia:Mediation Committee">Wikipedia:Mediation Committee</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>ME</dt> <dd>A minor edit to an article.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Meat puppet</dt> <dd>An account created only for the illegitimate strengthening of another user's position in votes or discussions. Unlike a <a href="#Sock_puppet">sock puppet</a>, 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.</dd> <dt>MedCab, Medcab, MEDCAB</dt> <dd>The Mediation Cabal. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal" title="Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal">Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal</a>.</dd> <dt>MedCom, Medcom, MEDCOM</dt> <dd>The former Mediation Committee. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Committee" title="Wikipedia:Mediation Committee">Wikipedia:Mediation Committee</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Mediation</dt> <dd>An attempt by a third party to resolve an edit war or other conflict between users. There existed a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Committee" title="Wikipedia:Mediation Committee">Wikipedia:Mediation Committee</a> which can do so on a more or less official basis as the penultimate step in the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution" title="Wikipedia:Dispute resolution">Wikipedia:dispute resolution</a> process, and a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal" title="Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal">Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal</a> which acts as an informal alternative. See also: <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_mediation%3F" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:What is mediation?">Wikipedia:What is mediation?</a>; <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation" title="Wikipedia:Mediation">Wikipedia:Mediation</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>MediaWiki</dt> <dd>The software behind Wikipedia and its sister projects, as well as several projects not related to Wikimedia, and a namespace. Contrast <a href="#Wikimedia">Wikimedia</a>. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MediaWiki" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:MediaWiki">Wikipedia:MediaWiki</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MediaWiki_namespace" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace">Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Meh</dt> <dd>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 the editor feels are uninteresting or pointless, or proposals not worth considering.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Merge</dt> <dd>Taking the text of two pages, and turning it into a single page. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Merging" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Merging">Help:Merging</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Mergist</dt> <dd>A user who adheres to the principle of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mergism" class="extiw" title="m:Mergism">Mergism</a>, which is a compromise between the <a href="#Inclusionist">Inclusionist</a> and <a href="#Deletionist">Deletionist</a> 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.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meta" title="Wikipedia:Meta">Meta</a></dt> <dd>A separate <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">wiki</a> (<a class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/">[1]</a>) used to discuss general Wikimedia matters. In the past, this has been called Metapedia, Meta Wikipedia, Meta Wikimedia, and many other combinations.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meta_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Meta page">Meta page</a>, meta-page</dt> <dd>A page that provides information about Wikipedia. Meta pages are more correctly referred to as <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Project namespace">project namespace</a> pages. Meta pages should not be confused with a page on Meta-Wikimedia.</dd> <dt>MfD, MFD</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion">Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Minor_edit" title="Help:Minor edit">Minor edit</a></dt> <dd>A minor edit is one the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. An edit of this kind is marked in its page's revision history with a lower case, bolded "m" character (m).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Mirror</dt> <dd>A website other than Wikipedia that uses content originally from Wikipedia as a source for at least some of its content. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks" title="Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks">Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Mop</dt> <dd>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).</dd> <dt>MOS, MoS</dt> <dd>Found in <a href="#Edit_summary">edit summaries</a> 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 <a href="#NC">NC</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">Wikipedia:Manual of Style</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Move</dt> <dd>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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Renaming_(moving)_a_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Renaming (moving) a page">Help:Renaming (moving) a page</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Move war</dt> <dd>An <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Edit war">edit war</a> in which two (or more, but almost always two) editors move a page back and forth. This may be the result of a dispute over the proper title for the page, or a dispute over whether the page should be in article space or moved into draft space for improvement.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>N[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: N">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>N</dt> <dd>On the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="Special:RecentChanges">Recent changes</a> page, N (upper case, bold) – with a red exclamation mark – N! indicates a new page or article that has not yet been patrolled.</dd> <dt>N/a</dt> <dd>An abbreviation for new article, often used in edit summaries. Easily confused with the common non-Wiki use, "not applicable" or "not available".</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>NAC</dt> <dd>An abbreviation for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-admin_closure" title="Wikipedia:Non-admin closure">non-admin closure</a>. Signifies a closure of a discussion which was performed by someone without <a href="#Admin">admin</a> privileges.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Namespace</dt> <dd>A way to classify pages. Wikipedia has namespaces for encyclopedia articles, pages about Wikipedia (<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Project namespace">project namespace</a>), <a href="#User_page">user pages</a> (User:), special pages (Special:), <a href="#Template">template</a> pages (Template:), and <a href="#Talk_page">talk pages</a> (Talk:, Wikipedia talk:, and User talk:), among others. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">Wikipedia:Namespace</a>.</dd> <dt>Navbox, Navigation template</dt> <dd>A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Navigation_templates" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Navigation templates">navbox</a> is a type of template placed at the bottom articles to enable the reader to navigate easily to other articles on related topics. See also: <a href="#Infobox">Infobox</a>, <a href="#Taxobox">taxobox</a>.</dd> <dt>NC, NCs</dt> <dd>Found in <a href="#Edit_summary">edit summaries</a> to indicate that a change has been made to make an item comply with Wikipedia's standard naming conventions. See also <a href="#MOS">MOS</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles" title="Wikipedia:Article titles">Wikipedia:Article titles</a>.</dd> <dt>Newbie test, noob test, newb test</dt> <dd>An edit made by a newcomer to Wikipedia, just to see if "Edit this page" really does what it sounds like. Newcomers should use <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox" title="Wikipedia:Sandbox">Wikipedia:Sandbox</a> for this purpose. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Introduction">Wikipedia:Introduction</a>.</dd> <dt>NN, nn</dt> <dd>Abbreviation found in comments at <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion">Wikipedia:Articles for deletion</a> and in edit summaries, indicating that the article's subject is not <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notable</a> enough for a Wikipedia entry.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>nom</dt> <dd>Short for "nomination" or "nominator". Often found on deletion <a href="#Process_page">process pages</a> as part of the phrase Delete per nom, indicating a voter's assent to and/or agreement with the main nomination for deletion.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>NPA</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPA">No Personal Attacks</a>. A special case of <a href="#Civil">civility</a>, saying that criticism must be directed at content and editing behavior, not at editors personally.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>NOR</dt> <dd>The Wikipedia policy that <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research" title="Wikipedia:No original research">No Original Research</a> is allowed in citing sources in articles.</dd> <dt>Notice board, noticeboard</dt> <dd>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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UKWNB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:UKWNB">UK Wikipedians' notice board</a>; a notable exception is the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AN">Administrators' noticeboard</a>.</dd> <dt>NPOV, NPoV</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">Neutral point of view</a>, 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.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>NPP</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_Pages_Patrol" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:New Pages Patrol">Wikipedia:New Pages Patrol</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Null_edit" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Null edit">Null edit</a></dt> <dd>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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Purge" title="Wikipedia:Purge">purge</a> – 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.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Nupedia</dt> <dd>A Wikipedia predecessor project that shut down in 2003. It is currently inactive and there are no plans to resurrect it. See also: <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nupedia_and_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Nupedia and Wikipedia">WP:Nupedia and Wikipedia</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>O[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: O">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>OAS</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for On Another Subject.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>OBE</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for Overcome By Events or Overtaken By Events.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Office actions</dt> <dd>May refer to administrative interventions on Wikipedia by WMF staff. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Office_actions" title="Wikipedia:Office actions">Wikipedia:Office actions</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>OP</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="#Original_post">Original post</a> (or "Original poster"). Can also stand for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Open_proxies" title="Wikipedia:Open proxies">Open Proxy</a>. Or, in the context of <a href="#IRC">IRC</a>, "op" can refer to "ChanOp" (Channel Operator), and to "get ops" or "be opped" means to attain a higher access level within a channel.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Open tasks</dt> <dd>A <a href="#Template">template</a> (found at {{<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Opentask" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Opentask">opentask</a>}}) that lists several more or less janitorial tasks that are pending or needed. It is found on the <a href="#Community_Portal">community portal</a> as well as on many <a href="#User_page">user pages</a>. The term is also occasionally used within individual WikiProjects to refer to work which has been discussed but which still needs to be completed.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Open Ticket Request System</dt> <dd>Refers to the people and software that surround the handling of email sent to the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a>.</dd> <dt>Original post, original poster</dt> <dd>In a discussion <a href="#Thread">thread</a>, 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 commonly seen on the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk" title="Wikipedia:Reference desk">WP:Reference desk</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Original research</dt> <dd>In Wikipedia, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#What_is_original_research?" title="Wikipedia:No original research">original research</a> (sometimes abbreviated OR) is material that has not been published already by a reputable source. As an encyclopedia, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">Wikipedia is not</a> the appropriate place to publish original research, nor can it be used for substantiation of article content.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Orphan" title="Wikipedia:Orphan">Orphan</a>, orphan article, orphaned article, orphan image, orphaned image</dt> <dd>An orphaned article is an article with no links from other pages in the main article <a href="#Namespace">namespace</a>. An orphaned image is an image with no links from any pages at all. You can view lists of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LonelyPages" title="Special:LonelyPages">orphaned articles</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UnusedFiles" title="Special:UnusedFiles">images</a>. <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Orphaned_articles" title="Category:Orphaned articles">Category:Orphaned articles</a> contains orphaned articles organized by month. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Orphanage" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage">Wikiproject Orphanage</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>OTD</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OTD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OTD">On This Day</a>, a selection of anniversaries that are displayed on the main page.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>OTRS</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="#Open_Ticket_Request_System">Open Ticket Request System</a>. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Volunteer_Response_Team" title="Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team">Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>P[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: P">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Page</dt> <dd>Any individual topic within Wikipedia; the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page" title="Web page">web page</a> without the top, bottom and sidebars. Pages include articles, stubs, redirects, disambiguation pages, user pages, talk pages, files, documentation and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Special_pages" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Special pages">special pages</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Parent; Parent category</dt> <dd>A larger, more general category of which the category under discussion is a subcategory (for example, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aquatic_organisms" title="Category:Aquatic organisms">Category:Aquatic organisms</a> is a parent category of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fish" title="Category:Fish">Category:Fish</a>). Compare <a href="#Child">Child</a>. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Categorization" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Categorization">Help:Categorization</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Parent article</dt> <dd>An article which is one of two or more articles related in a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-to-many_(data_model)" title="One-to-many (data model)">one-to-many</a> hierarchical fashion, and which contains one or more other articles subsidiary to it which are known as <a href="#Child_article">child articles</a>. The article <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> is the parent article of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II" title="Causes of World War II">Causes of World War II</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_War" title="Pacific War">Pacific War</a>, and numerous other child articles. See <a href="#Summary_style">Summary style</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Parent-only category</dt> <dd>A category which contains only subcategories.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Patent_nonsense" title="Wikipedia:Patent nonsense">Patent nonsense</a>.</dt> <dd>A pejorative applied to articles that are either completely unintelligible or totally irrelevant. Patent nonsense is one of the more obvious but less common reasons for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Speedy_deletion" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Speedy deletion">speedy deletion</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Patrol</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_changes_patrol" title="Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol">Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol</a> and/or <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_page_patrol" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:New page patrol">Wikipedia:New page patrol</a>. May also be used as a synonym for "review closely".[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>PD</dt> <dd>Material not presently under copyright and thus available for use without permission. <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_resources" title="Wikipedia:Public domain resources">Public domain</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Peer Review">Peer Review</a></dt> <dd>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.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Permastub</dt> <dd>Any <a href="#Stub">stub</a> 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 <a href="#Merge">merging</a> into larger articles.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Permcat</dt> <dd>A permanent <a href="#Category">category</a> – 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 <a href="#Cleanup">cleanup</a> or <a href="#stub">stub sorting</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Permanent_link" title="Help:Permanent link">Permalink</a>, permanent link</dt> <dd>A link to a specific version of a Wikipedia page, which will not reflect later edits to the page.</dd> <dt>Per, per nom, per <var>X</var></dt> <dd>A comment on a page such as <a href="#RFA">RFA</a> or <a href="#AFD">AFD</a> 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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_does_%22per%22_mean%3F" title="Wikipedia:What does "per" mean?">Wikipedia:What does "per" mean?</a></dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Personal attack</dt> <dd>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 <a href="#Policy">policy</a> and may be grounds for <a href="#Block">blocking</a> in serious and/or repeated cases. See also: <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks" title="Wikipedia:No personal attacks">Wikipedia:No personal attacks</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Remove_personal_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Remove personal attacks">Wikipedia:Remove personal attacks</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Phase I</dt> <dd>The <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_software" title="Wiki software">wiki software</a> <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UseModWiki" title="UseModWiki">UseModWiki</a>. Wikipedia used this software before January 25, 2002.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Phase II</dt> <dd>The wiki software written by <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske" title="User:Magnus Manske">User:Magnus Manske</a> and adopted by Wikipedia after <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_25" title="January 25">January 25</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002" title="2002">2002</a> (<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Magnus_Manske_Day" title="Wikipedia:Magnus Manske Day">Magnus Manske Day</a>).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Phase III</dt> <dd>A rewritten and improved version of the Phase II software. It was eventually renamed to <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki" title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a>. Wikipedia currently uses MediaWiki version 1.39.0-wmf.13 (b243436) (see also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version" title="Special:Version">Special:Version</a>). See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MediaWiki" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:MediaWiki">Wikipedia:MediaWiki</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki" class="extiw" title="m:MediaWiki">m:MediaWiki</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Phase IV</dt> <dd>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 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia4" class="extiw" title="m:Wikipedia4">m:Wikipedia4</a>.</dd> <dt>Pipe, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Piped_link" title="Wikipedia:Piped link">Piped link</a></dt> <dd>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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pipe_trick" title="Help:Pipe trick">Help:Pipe trick</a>, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Piped_link#Automatic_conversion_of_the_wikitext" class="extiw" title="m:Help:Piped link">m:Help:Piped link § Automatic conversion of the wikitext</a>.</dd> <dt>POINT, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:POINT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:POINT">WP:POINT</a></dt> <dd>"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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_disrupt_Wikipedia_to_illustrate_a_point" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point">Wikipedia:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pok%C3%A9mon_test" title="Wikipedia:Pokémon test">Pokémon test</a></dt> <dd>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. </dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Portal</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Portal" title="Wikipedia:Portal">Portal</a>.</dd> <dt>POTD, PotD</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day">Picture of the day</a>.</dd> <dt>POV, PoV</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Point_of_view" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Point of view">Point of view</a>. 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 "<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias" title="Bias">biased</a>", as in "That reply was POV, not neutral".</dd> <dt>POV warrior, PoV warrior</dt> <dd>An editor who aggressively distorts coverage of certain topics to suit their biases despite community norms of neutrality and the Wikipedia policy of <a href="#NPOV">NPOV</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Prejudice</dt> <dd>As in, "delete without prejudice" and variations, based on the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice_(law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Prejudice (law)">legal term</a>. Deletion without prejudice indicates there is a problem with the present version of the article (e.g., lack of sources) and re-creation 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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DRV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DRV">deletion review</a> can overturn this).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Primary landing page</dt> <dd>The page at the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Base_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Base name">base name</a>, to which <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikilink" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Wikilink">wikilinks</a> to that name will therefore link.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Process page</dt> <dd>A <a href="#Wikispace">wikispace</a> page dedicated to discussion and (usually) voting on specific pages or users, or for similar administrative reasons. Examples include <a href="#CFD">CFD</a>, <a href="#RFA">RFA</a>, and <a href="#AFD">AFD</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Prod, PROD</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Proposed deletion">Proposed deletion</a>. A process by which articles that do not qualify for <a href="#speedy_deletion">speedy deletion</a> but are able to be uncontroversially deleted can be removed from Wikipedia without going through a full <a href="#AfD">AfD</a> process. Can be used as a verb (To prod an article). See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Guide to deletion">Wikipedia:Guide to deletion</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Project</dt> <dd>See <a href="#WikiProject">WikiProject</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Project namespace</dt> <dd>The <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Project namespace">project namespace</a> is a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">namespace</a> dedicated to providing information about Wikipedia. Pages in the project namespace always start with "Wikipedia:".</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proseline" title="Wikipedia:Proseline">Proseline</a></dt> <dd>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.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Protected page</dt> <dd>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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:This_page_is_protected" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:This page is protected">Wikipedia:This page is protected</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Protologism</dt> <dd>A word still in the embryo stage of language development and remains too obscure to be classified as a neologism. A successful protologism becomes a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism" title="Neologism">neologism</a>. The term protologism has been adopted as <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon" title="Jargon">jargon</a> for use within <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_community" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiki community">Wiki communities</a>, but is not in common usage outside this context. "Protologism" itself can be considered either a protologism or neologism. Coined by <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Epstein" title="Mikhail Epstein">Mikhail Epstein</a> from Greek protos, first + Greek logos, word. See also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/protologism" class="extiw" title="wikt:protologism">protologism</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:List_of_protologisms" class="extiw" title="wikt:Wiktionary:List of protologisms">list of protologisms</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>The Pump</dt> <dd>A nickname for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump" title="Wikipedia:Village pump">Wikipedia:Village pump</a>. See also <a href="#VP">VP</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>Q[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Q">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Quack</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Duck">duck</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>R[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: R">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>RA</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles" title="Wikipedia:Requested articles">Wikipedia:Requested articles</a>, a place to ask people to create articles that should exist but do not.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>RAA</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_administrator_attention" title="Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention">Request for Administrator Attention</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Random page</dt> <dd>The Random page link is on the left of each page for most <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin" title="Wikipedia:Skin">skins</a>. It will take you to a Wikipedia article that is chosen by a computer algorithm without any deliberate pattern or meaning to the choice.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Randy_in_Boise" title="Wikipedia:Randy in Boise">Randy in Boise</a></dt> <dd>A generic name for editors who don't give enough deference to experts.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>RC</dt> <dd>An abbreviation for <a href="#Recent_changes">Recent changes</a></dd> <dt>RC Patrol</dt> <dd>A group of volunteer editors who examine <a href="#Recent_changes">Recent changes</a> logs for vandalism and other undesirable edits.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Re</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for Remark, Reply, or Regarding.</dd> <dt>Re-creation</dt> <dd>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".</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Recent changes</dt> <dd>A dynamically generated page (found at <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="Special:RecentChanges">Special:Recentchanges</a>) that lists all edits in descending chronological order. Sometimes abbreviated as RC. Recent changes are checked regularly by editors doing <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RC_patrol" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RC patrol">RC patrol</a>, which means checking all suspicious edits to catch <a href="#Vandalism">vandalism</a> as early as possible. Other ways of watching recent changes are the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/irc://browne.wikimedia.org/#en.wikipedia">Recentchanges IRC channel</a>, or <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CryptoDerk/CDVF" title="User:CryptoDerk/CDVF">CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter</a>, which announce changes in realtime.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Redirect" title="Help:Redirect">Redirect</a>, redir, rd</dt> <dd>A page title which, when requested, merely sends the reader to another page. This is used for synonyms and ease of linking. The name of the redirected page is shown under the title of the resulting target page. For example, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Impressionist">impressionist</a> might redirect to <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism" title="Impressionism">impressionism</a>. For an introduction to what a redirect is, see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Redirect" title="Help:Redirect">Help:Redirect</a>. For the guidelines on handling redirects on Wikipedia, see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">Wikipedia:Redirect</a>.</dd> <dt>Red link, redlink</dt> <dd>A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikilink" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikilink">wikilink</a> to an article that does not exist shows up red. See also <a href="#Blue_link">blue link</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Red_Link_Recovery" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery">WikiProject Red Link Recovery</a>, and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Red_link" title="Wikipedia:Red link">Wikipedia:Red link</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Ref</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for reference (with the plural abbreviation being refs) or refer.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Refactor</dt> <dd>To restructure a document, usually applied to the ordering and summarizing of <a href="#Talk_page">talk pages</a>. See also: <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Refactoring_talk_pages" title="Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages">Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Reference</dt> <dd>Several meanings, depending on context. Sometimes used as a synonym for <a href="#Source">source</a> or as a synonym for <a href="#Citation">citation</a>. In the plural, References may refer to the dedicated section found near the bottom of almost every Wikipedia article, where the <a href="#Footnotes">footnotes</a> are rendered. Because of the multiple meanings, it's not always clear how to entitle the article section that contains the footnotes or references; for a discussion, see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS:NOTES" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:NOTES">MOS:NOTES</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Reincarnation</dt> <dd>A new user account created by a <a href="#Ban">banned</a> user to evade the <a href="#Block">block</a>. See <a href="#Sock_puppet">sock puppet</a>.</dd> <dt>Reliable source</dt> <dd>A source with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. Wikipedia articles must be based only on reliable sources; see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources">Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources</a> (shortcut: <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">WP:RS</a>).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Rename</dt> <dd>"Renaming" may refer to a variety of operations on Wikipedia; see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Rename" title="Help:Rename">Help:Rename</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Render</dt> <dd>How a page appears on the computer screen, used especially on Wikipedia (in the form "rendered page") when discussing how changes an editor makes in the edit window will appear once the page is saved. In the context of the World Wide Web, rendering is the operation performed by the user's browser of converting the Web document (in <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a>, etc., plus image and other included files) into the visible page on the user's screen.</dd> <dt>Repoint, re-point</dt> <dd>To change the destination article of a <a href="#Redirect">redirect</a>, either to avoid a <a href="#Double_redirect">double redirect</a> or to change the redirect so it leads to a more appropriate article. The term <a href="#Retarget">retarget</a> is also frequently used.</dd> <dt>Req</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for "Request".</dd> <dt>Rescope, re-scope</dt> <dd>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.</dd> <dt>Retarget, re-target</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Repoint">Repoint</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Revdel</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Revision_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Revision deletion">Revision deletion</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="#Delrev">Delrev</a>, which is short for Deletion review, a completely different process.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Revert</dt> <dd>An edit that reverses edits made by someone else, thus restoring the prior version. The term is sometimes used to imply that something more stringent than <a href="#undo">undoing</a> was done, such as a <a href="#rollback">rollback</a>. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Reverting" title="Help:Reverting">Help:Reverting</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Revert war</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Edit_war">Edit war</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>RfA, RFA</dt> <dd>Can mean <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship" title="Wikipedia:Requests for adminship">Wikipedia:Requests for adminship</a> or (rarely) <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration">Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration</a>, depending on the context. The latter is frequently abbreviated RfAr to avoid the ambiguity.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>RfA Cliché #1</dt> <dd>Sometimes used in support at <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship" title="Wikipedia:Requests for adminship">Wikipedia:Requests for adminship</a>, to indicate that one thought the candidate already was an admin. See also <a href="#ITHAWO">ITHAWO</a>.</dd> <dt>RfAr, RFAR</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration">Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>RfB, RFB</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_bureaucratship" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship">Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship</a>.</dd> <dt>RfC, RFC</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment">Wikipedia:Requests for comment</a>, part of the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution" title="Wikipedia:Dispute resolution">dispute resolution</a> 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.</dd> <dt>RfD, RFD</dt> <dd>The <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion">Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion</a> page.</dd> <dt>RfM, RFM</dt> <dd>Request for <a href="#Mediation">mediation</a>, which was part of the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution" title="Wikipedia:Dispute resolution">dispute resolution</a> process (at the discontinued <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Requests for mediation">Wikipedia:Requests for mediation</a>).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>RHS</dt> <dd>The right-hand side of the <a href="#Main_page">main page</a>. On en-wiki, includes <a href="#ITN">ITN</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OTD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OTD">OTD</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>RL</dt> <dd>See <a href="#IRL">IRL</a></dd> <dt>Rm</dt> <dd>Remove. Used in edit summaries to indicate that a particular piece of text or formatting has been deleted.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>RM</dt> <dd>A requested move (<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RM">WP:RM</a>), a formal process to propose and discuss the renaming of a page.</dd> <dt>Rmv</dt> <dd>1. Remove (<a href="#Rm">Rm</a>) 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 <a href="#Rvv">rvv</a>.</dd> <dd>2. Same as <a href="#Rm">Rm</a>.</dd> <dt>Rogue admin</dt> <dd>Accusatory term for a Wikipedia <a href="#Administrator">administrator</a>, suggesting that the accused person systematically abuses their administrative access. Such accusations are rarely found to be justified or particularly productive. See also <a href="#Rouge_admin">rouge admin</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Rollback</dt> <dd>To change a page back to the version before the last edit. <a href="#Administrators">Administrators</a> and <a href="#Rollbackers">rollbackers</a> have special tools to do this more easily. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Rollback_feature" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Rollback feature">Wikipedia:Rollback feature</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Rollbacker</dt> <dd>A class of users who can use the <a href="#Rollback">rollback</a> feature. This feature is automatically enabled for all administrators.</dd> <dt>Rouge admin</dt> <dd>A misspelling of "<a href="#Rogue_admin">rogue admin</a>" 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).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>rs</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">Wikipedia:Reliable sources</a> – a guideline that articles should be based on reliable published sources.</dd> <dt>Rv</dt> <dd><a href="#Revert">Revert</a>. An edit summary indicating the page has been reverted to a previous version, often because of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism" title="Wikipedia:Vandalism">vandalism</a>. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Reverting" title="Help:Reverting">Help:Reverting</a>.</dd> <dt>Rvt</dt> <dd>Same as <a href="#Rv">Rv</a>.</dd> <dt>Rvv</dt> <dd><a href="#Revert">Revert</a> of vandalism. See also <a href="#Rv">Rv</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>S[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: S">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>s</dt> <dd>Used in edit summaries to indicate that an editor has added a comment to support a proposal on a discussion page or <a href="#Process_page">process page</a> where a consensus is being sought.</dd> <dt>s/<var>word1</var>/<var>word2</var>/</dt> <dd>Replace <var>word1</var> with <var>word2</var>. Used in edit summaries. It is a reference to the command for "find and replace" in languages such as <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed" title="Sed">sed</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl" title="Perl">Perl</a>. "s/<var>word1</var>/<var>word2</var>/" means "replace all occurrences of <var>word1</var> with <var>word2</var>" (s stands for "substitute").</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Salt</dt> <dd>(From "<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth" title="Salting the earth">salting the earth</a>".) Administrators can prevent the creation of pages through the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy" title="Wikipedia:Protection policy">page protection interface</a> and if so the page title is said to have been "salted." This is useful for articles that have been deleted but repeatedly recreated with undesired content. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SALT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SALT">WP:SALT</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Sandbox</dt> <dd>A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(software_development)" title="Sandbox (software development)">sandbox</a> is a page users may edit however they want. Though it is meant to help users experiment and gain familiarity with <a href="#Wiki_markup">Wiki markup</a>, the public sandbox at <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox" title="Wikipedia:Sandbox">Wikipedia:Sandbox</a> is often filled with strange things and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Patent_nonsense" title="Wikipedia:Patent nonsense">patent nonsense</a>. In addition to the public sandbox, users may create private sandboxes on <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subpages" title="Wikipedia:Subpages">subpages</a> of their <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:User page">user page</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Scap</dt> <dd>A scap occurs when <a href="#MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a>, the software that runs Wikipedia, is updated. Scap stands for "<a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/03/mediawikis-scap-map/">sync-common-all-php</a>", the internal script used to deploy the update.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Sea of blue <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SEAOFBLUE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SEAOFBLUE">WP:SEAOFBLUE</a></dt> <dd>The undesirable result of placement of two or more wikilinked terms adjacent to each other, with no intervening plaintext, so they look like a single link, as in <code>[[Ireland|Irish]] [[Chess]] [[Championship]]</code> (<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Irish</a> <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess" title="Chess">Chess</a> <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship" title="Championship">Championship</a>).</dd> <dt>Section editing</dt> <dd>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 <a href="#Edit_conflict">edit conflict</a>. You can turn section editing off in your <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">preferences</a> under the "Enable section editing via [edit] links" option.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Self_link" title="Help:Self link">Self-link</a></dt> <dd>A Wikilink contained in an article that points the reader to that same article, e.g., linking <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Vice President">Vice President</a> in the article "<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Vice President">Vice President</a>". 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-<a href="#Wikify">wikified</a> in most cases. See also: <a href="#Circular_reference">Circular reference</a>.</dd> <dt>Self-ref, selfref, self-ref</dt> <dd>When used in terms like "no self-refs", this refers to the guideline <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Self-references_to_avoid" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Self-references to avoid">Wikipedia:Self-references to avoid</a> whereby articles should generally not refer to the Wikipedia project directly or implicitly. Self-ref can also refer to the template <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Selfref" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Selfref">{{selfref}}</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Self-redirect</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Circular_redirect">Circular redirect</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Self-revert</dt> <dd>An editor self-reverts when they <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Reverting" title="Help:Reverting">revert</a> or undo an edit they had previously made. This may be because the editor was merely making a test, or because the editor later realised their edit was faulty, or because they wish to show good faith after a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Three-revert_rule#I've_violated_3RR._What_do_I_do?" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Three-revert rule">three-revert rule</a> violation. See <a href="#Revert">Revert</a>.</dd> <dt>Set index article</dt> <dd>A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Set_index_articles" title="Wikipedia:Set index articles">set index article</a> (SIA) is a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Stand-alone_lists" title="Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists">list article</a> about a set of items of a specific type that also share the same (or similar) name. Not to be confused with a <a href="#Disambiguation_page">disambiguation page</a>.</dd> <dt>SfD, SFD</dt> <dd>The <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Stub_types_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion">Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion</a> page.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Sharpen cat</dt> <dd>To place an article within a more specific category, e.g., placing a biography article from <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Kenya" title="Category:Kenya">Category:Kenya</a> into <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Kenyan_people" title="Category:Kenyan people">Category:Kenyan people</a>. In addition, sh cat in edit summaries.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Sheep vote</dt> <dd>A vote on Wikipedia that seems to be cast just to go along with the flow. E.g., on <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RfA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RfA">RfA</a>, this can typically be a vote such as "Support because x, y, and z are supporting." The opposite is called a <a href="#Wolf_vote">wolf vote</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Shortcut</dt> <dd>A <a href="#Redirect">redirect</a> used within <a href="#Wikispace">Wikispace</a> to enable editors to get to a project page more quickly. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Wikipedia:Shortcut</a> for the policy on these redirects, and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_shortcuts" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:List of shortcuts">Wikipedia:List of shortcuts</a> for a complete list.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>SIA</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Set_index_article">Set index article</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Silver bullet</dt> <dd>From fantasy literature; see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_bullet" title="Silver bullet">silver bullet</a>, sometimes the only or preferred method of killing monsters. In deletion discussions, Delete with a silver bullet implies the page to be deleted is a monster.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Skin</dt> <dd>The appearance theme in <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Special:Preferences</a>. Currently, four are available: Cologne Blue, Modern, Monobook, and Vector.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>SME</dt> <dd>An acronym for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_matter_expert" class="mw-redirect" title="Subject matter expert">subject matter expert</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Smerge</dt> <dd>A contraction of "slight <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging" title="Wikipedia:Merging">merge</a>" or "selective merge", sometimes used in <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion">Articles for deletion</a> 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).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Snap</dt> <dd>To <a href="#Retarget">retarget</a> a double redirect to point to the ultimate target.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>SNG</dt> <dd>A Subject-specific Notability Guideline, see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_notability_guidelines" title="Category:Wikipedia notability guidelines">Category:Wikipedia notability guidelines</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Snowball_clause" title="Wikipedia:Snowball clause">Snowball clause</a> (snowball delete)</dt> <dd>Sometimes entries on <a href="#Process_page">process pages</a> are closed early when it becomes obvious 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. Later showball keep came into the usage in AfD pages, by an analogy.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>SNOWCLOSE</dt> <dd>A verb meaning to close a discussion, per the snowball clause. Can be used as a noun ("The <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WoW&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:WoW (page does not exist)">Willy on Wheels</a> RfA was an instant SNOWCLOSE") or a verb ("The <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a> AfD nomination was SNOWCLOSEd after two minutes").</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppet" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Sock puppet">Sock puppet</a>, sock</dt> <dd>Another user account created secretly by an existing Wikipedian, generally to manufacture the illusion of support in a vote or argument. Also, particularly on <a href="#AfD">AfD</a>, 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 <a href="#Meat_puppet">meat puppet</a>). It is not always possible to tell the difference.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Soft_redirect" title="Wikipedia:Soft redirect">Soft redirect</a></dt> <dd>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).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Sort key</dt> <dd>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 {{<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DEFAULTSORT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DEFAULTSORT">DEFAULTSORT</a>:}}. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Category#Sort_key" title="Help:Category">Help:Category § Sort key</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Source <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOURCE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SOURCE">WP:SOURCE</a></dt> <dd>Any of three meanings, all related to <a href="#Verifiability">verifiability</a> of our (Wikipedia's) content:</dd> <dd>1. A <a href="#Work">work</a> such as a book, a journal or magazine article, or a web page</dd> <dd>2. The creator of a work (its author)</dd> <dd>3. The publisher of the work (Elsevier, BBC)</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>sp</dt> <dd>Short for spelling correction or space. Used in <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_summary" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Edit summary">edit summaries</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>SPA</dt> <dd>Short for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Single-purpose_account" title="Wikipedia:Single-purpose account">Single Purpose Account</a>. If that single purpose is disruptive (e.g., vote stacking, or attacking some user) the account tends to be indefinitely blocked.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Spamming</dt> <dd>The inappropriate <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CANVAS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CANVAS">canvassing</a> technique of attempting to sway consensus by posting an excessive number of messages to individual users, or to users with no significant connection to a community discussion.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Speedy</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="#Speedy_delete">Speedy delete</a> (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.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Speedy delete</dt> <dd>Deletion of a page without prior discussion. Pages can be speedily deleted only under very specific circumstances; see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion">Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion</a> for those.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Speedy keep</dt> <dd>The closing of a vote on a deletion wikispace page (like <a href="#AFD">AFD</a>) before the normal end of the voting period. This happens when the nomination has been faulty (e.g., a <a href="#Bad_faith_nomination">bad faith nomination</a>) 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 all ended the same way).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Split</dt> <dd>Separating a single page into two or more pages.</dd> <dt>Sprot, sprotect, sprotection</dt> <dd>Short for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy#Semi-protection" title="Wikipedia:Protection policy">semi-protect</a> [ion]. Articles that are semi-protected cannot be edited by unregistered or newly registered users.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Stealth canvassing <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:STEALTH" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:STEALTH">WP:STEALTH</a></dt> <dd>The inappropriate <a href="#canvassing">canvassing</a> technique of notifying editors off-wiki about ongoing Talk page discussions.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Steward</dt> <dd>A user who has been empowered to change any user's status on any Wikimedia Foundation project, including granting and revoking Administrator status and granting <a href="#Bureaucrat">bureaucrat</a> status. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators#Stewards" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">Wikipedia:Administrators § Stewards</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Stillborn</dt> <dd>Having failed to initiate. Used in deletion discussions, for instance of a WikiProject that never had members except its originator.</dd> <dt>Strike out, strike-through, strikethrough, etc.</dt> <dd>To place text in strike-through (HTML <code><del>...</del></code>, <code><strike>...</strike></code>, or <code><s>...</s></code>) tags. This is very rarely used in articles, but is relatively common in votes and discussions when a contributor changes their opinion. As not to cause confusion, the outdated comments are struck out (<del>like this</del>). The inserted material (HTML <code><ins></code>) tag is sometimes used with it to show a replacement for the struck material (<ins>like this</ins>). 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 <code><strike></code> nor <code><s></code> will exist any longer in HTML 5/XHTML 2, so <code><del></code> is recommended.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Stub</dt> <dd>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 <a href="#Cleanup">cleanup</a> template, which add the articles to stub categories sorted by subject matter. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Find_or_fix_a_stub" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub">Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WSS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WSS">Wikiproject Stub Sorting</a>.</dd> <dt>Subarticle, sub-article</dt> <dd>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 <a href="#Subpage">subpage</a>. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Summary_style" title="Wikipedia:Summary style">Wikipedia:Summary style</a>.</dd> <dd>2. A page in multi-page list that was split to reduce list article size. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Stand-alone_lists" title="Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists">Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Subject page</dt> <dd>In <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mainspace" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Mainspace">mainspace</a>, this is the article page as opposed to its <a href="#Talk_page">talk page</a>. In other namespaces the subject pages are the content pages as opposed to their talk pages.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subpages" title="Wikipedia:Subpages">Subpage</a>, sub-page</dt> <dd>A page connected to a parent page, such as Page name/Arguments. You can create subpages only in certain namespaces. Do not use subpages in the main article space. Contrast <a href="#Subarticle">subarticle</a>. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subpages" title="Wikipedia:Subpages">Wikipedia:Subpages</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Substitution" title="Wikipedia:Substitution">Subst</a>, subst'ing</dt> <dd>Short for "<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Substitution" title="Wikipedia:Substitution">substituting</a>" a template, which permanently copies its contents and breaks the link with the source template page. Contrast <a href="#Transclusion">transclusion</a>, a live updated reference to the source template page.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Substub</dt> <dd>A very short <a href="#Stub">stub</a> article, typically only one sentence.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Succession box</dt> <dd>A type of <a href="#Template">template</a>, 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 <a href="#Foo">Foo</a> would be linked by succession box to articles on the ninth and eleventh presidents. Compare <a href="#Infobox">Infobox</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Suckpoppet</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOCKPUPPET" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SOCKPUPPET">Sockpuppet</a> or Sockpuppetry, silly typo occasionally used esp. in deletion discussions to indicate the page under discussion is of illegitimate origin and should be deleted</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>SUL</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Single_user_login" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Single user login">"Single user login"</a>, which refers to the process of unifying individual accounts with the same name across Wikimedia projects into one global account.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Summary style</dt> <dd>Summary style is an <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_guidelines#Editing" title="Wikipedia:List of guidelines">editing guideline</a> comprising an organizational approach for writing articles on topics that are <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_size" title="Wikipedia:Article size">too large to contain in a single article</a>. Summary style calls for the creation of a hierarchy of articles, with the main topic, called the <a href="#Parent_article">parent article</a>, sitting at the top of a pyramid, with one or more <a href="#Child_article">child articles</a> beneath it. An example is the topic World War II: this is represented in Wikipedia in summary style, with the parent article <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> at the top, and many child articles, such as <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II" title="Causes of World War II">Causes of World War II</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_War" title="Pacific War">Pacific War</a>, and many others subsidiary to it. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Summary_style" title="Wikipedia:Summary style">Wikipedia:Summary style</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Super Mario problem</dt> <dd>A problem that arises during <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee">arbitration</a> when conduct that would normally get a non-administrator <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Banning_policy" title="Wikipedia:Banning policy">banned</a> only gets an <a href="#Admin">administrator</a> <a href="#Desysop">desysopped</a>. It is named after the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros." title="Super Mario Bros.">Super Mario Bros.</a> video game: when Super Mario gets hit, he turns back into small Mario; when small Mario takes the same hit, he dies. There is an <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Super_Mario_effect" title="Wikipedia:Super Mario effect">essay</a> about the problem.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>SWAG</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Wild-Ass_Guess" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific Wild-Ass Guess">Scientific Wild-Ass Guess</a>.</dd> <dt>Sysop, Sys-op, Sys-Op</dt> <dd>A less-used name for <a href="#Admin">Administrator</a>. See also <a href="#Desysop">Desysop</a> and the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysop" title="Sysop">Sysop</a> article.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Systemic bias</dt> <dd>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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias">WikiProject Countering systemic bias</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>T[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: T">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt>Tag</dt> <dd>1. A wiki <a href="#Template">template</a>, in general.</dd> <dd>2. Specifically, a template that will assign an article to a category (most often a <a href="#stub">stub</a> template).</dd> <dd>3. Specifically, a template that indicates an article needs cleanup, or something about it is disputed.</dd> <dd>4. Specifically, a template that indicates a page has been nominated for deletion.</dd> <dd>5. Specifically, a <a href="#WikiProject">WikiProject</a> banner template applied to a talk page.</dd> <dd>6. Frequently: A <a href="#Category">category</a>. Alternative for category declaration.</dd> <dd>7. Verb: To apply any such template to a page, or to add a category.</dd> <dd>8. An <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element" title="HTML element">HTML element</a>. See also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext" class="extiw" title="meta:Help:HTML in wikitext">Help:HTML in wikitext</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table" class="extiw" title="meta:Help:Table">Help:Table</a>.</dd> <dd>9. A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tags" title="Wikipedia:Tags">MediaWiki tag</a>, brief message applied next to certain revisions by the software.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Talk page">Talk page</a></dt> <dd>A page reserved for discussion of the page with which it is associated, such as the article page. All pages within Wikipedia (except pages in the Special namespace, and talk pages themselves) have talk pages attached to them (accessed via the "Talk" link at the top).</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_stalker" title="Wikipedia:Talk page stalker">Talk page stalker</a>, TPS</dt> <dd>A humorous term for an editor who involves themselves in discussions on other users' talk pages (often after a previous conversation with that user has left the page on the editor's Watchlist). TPS involvement should be constructive or humorous, and is distinguished from <a href="#Wikihounding">wikihounding</a>.</dd> <dt>Task force</dt> <dd>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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide/Task_forces" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/Task forces">Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/Task forces</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Taxobox" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Taxobox">Taxobox</a></dt> <dd>A type of <a href="#Infobox">infobox</a>, a taxobox is a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy" title="Taxonomy">taxonomy</a> table positioned on the right side of an entry for a species or organism (or for a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus" title="Genus">genus</a> or <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_(biology)" title="Family (biology)">family</a>), giving a chart of the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology)" title="Kingdom (biology)">kingdom</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylum_(biology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Phylum (biology)">phylum</a>, etc. of the creature. Taxoboxes are also used for similar standardized tables.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Template</dt> <dd>A way of automatically including the contents of one page within another page, used for <a href="#Boilerplate_text">boilerplate text</a>, navigational aids, etc. See also: <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Template namespace">Wikipedia:Template namespace</a>.</dd> <dt>Templatise, Templatize</dt> <dd>To delete a list or category and turn the contents into a <a href="#Template">template</a>, usually either a <a href="#Navbox">navbox</a> or <a href="#Infobox">infobox</a>. Sometimes used in <a href="#CFD">CFD</a> discussions as shorthand for "this group of articles would be better if presented in template form rather than as a category." See also: <a href="#"Listify"">listify</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Test edit</dt> <dd>Same as <a href="#Newbie_test">newbie test</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>TfD, TFD</dt> <dd>The <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Templates for discussion">Wikipedia:Templates for discussion</a> page.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Thread</dt> <dd>A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines">talk page discussion</a>, usually with more than two indented replies. May refer to either a complete second level section (i.e., a section with heading surrounded by ==) of posts as is defined by talk page archiving bots. For this type of thread, the age is the time interval from the most recent post to current time. It can also refer to an individual sequence of indented paragraphs.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Three-revert_rule" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Three-revert rule">Three-revert rule</a></dt> <dd>A rule whereby no one is allowed to <a href="#Revert">revert</a> a single article more than three times in one day (with a few exceptions).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>TLDR, tl;dr</dt> <dd>Short for "Too long; didn't read". For example where a reply to a query is very long and detailed. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn%27t_read" title="Wikipedia:Too long; didn't read">Wikipedia:Too long; didn't read</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>TINC</dt> <dd>Short for "there is no cabal". See <a href="#Cabal">Cabal</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Tl</dt> <dd>Short for "template". Also the name of a specific template, {{<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Tl" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Tl">tl</a>}}, which provides a template link, i.e., links a page to a template without allowing the template's code to operate on that page.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>TNT</dt> <dd>The essay <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blow_it_up_and_start_over" title="Wikipedia:Blow it up and start over">Wikipedia:Blow it up and start over</a>, which states that a page that is hopelessly irreparable but could be useful can be deleted and replaced by a new one, or the action of carrying out its doctrine.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>TOC, ToC</dt> <dd>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, <a href="#Float,_floating">floated</a>, or omitted entirely.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Top</dt> <dd>Same as (current)</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Topic</dt> <dd>The main subject of an article, or discussion.</dd> <dd>1. Term often used in <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AfD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AfD">Articles for Deletion</a> debates to determine the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notability" title="Notability">notability</a> of the main subject of an article.</dd> <dd>2. Term used for article writers to stay focused on the main subject of an article. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TOPIC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TOPIC">WP:TOPIC</a></dd> <dd>3. Term used for editors to stay focused on the main subject in talk page discussions. (e.g ., "Stay on topic.") See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TALKOFFTOPIC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TALKOFFTOPIC">WP:TALKOFFTOPIC</a></dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Trainwreck</dt> <dd>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 the pages later nominated separately. Examples include <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Warcraft_character_articles" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Warcraft character articles">Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Warcraft character articles</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mayoral_elections" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mayoral elections">Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mayoral elections</a>. This can also happen in non-deletion discussions, for example <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1051089306#Updating_broader_guidelines_with_NSPORTS_in_reference_to_the_changed_Olympic_guidelines" title="Special:PermanentLink/1051089306">this discussion on Wikipedia talk:Notability (sports)</a>.</dd> <dt> <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Transclusion">Transclusion</a></dt> <dd>Transclusion is the inclusion of the content of a document into another document by reference. On Wikipedia, it is done by enclosing the pagename in brackets, e.g. Template:Nac is transcluded by typing {{Nac}}. Typically, transclusion uses the template functionality of MediaWiki to include the same content in multiple documents without having to edit those documents separately. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion_costs_and_benefits" title="Wikipedia:Transclusion costs and benefits">Wikipedia:Transclusion costs and benefits</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Translation</dt> <dd>The English-language Wikipedia should have only pages in English. Non-English pages, listed on <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pages_needing_translation_into_English" title="Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English">Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English</a>, are subject to deletion unless translated. See also: <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Translation" title="Wikipedia:Translation">Wikipedia:Translation</a> for requests for translations into English of pages from foreign-language Wikipedias.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Transwiki</dt> <dd>Move a page to another Wikimedia project, in particular <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary" title="Wiktionary">Wiktionary</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks" title="Wikibooks">Wikibooks</a>, or <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. See also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Transwiki" class="extiw" title="m:Transwiki">m:Transwiki</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Transwiki" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Transwiki">Wikipedia:WikiProject Transwiki</a>. The verb is to transwikify.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Tranche Alpha</dt> <dd>Said of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitration_Committee" title="Arbitration Committee">Arbitration Committee</a> members whose term does not expire in a given year and hence not up for re-election. Perhaps derived from french "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tranche" class="extiw" title="wikt:tranche">wikt:tranche</a>", to cut.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Troll</dt> <dd>A user who incites or engages in disruptive behavior (<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll" title="Internet troll">trolling</a>). There are some people who enjoy causing conflict, and there are those who make a hobby of it. However, these are few and one should always <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AGF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AGF">assume good faith</a> in other editors. Calling someone a troll in a dispute is a bad idea; it has an effect similar to <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law" title="Godwin's law">calling someone a Nazi</a> – no further meaningful debate is likely to occur. See also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_is_a_troll%3F" class="extiw" title="m:What is a troll?">m:What is a troll?</a></dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Trout" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Trout">Trout</a>, trout-slapping</dt> <dd>A rebuke.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Tweak</dt> <dd>A small edit. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweaking" title="Tweaking">Tweaking</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Tyop</dt> <dd>A silly misspelling of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typo" class="mw-redirect" title="Typo">typo</a>. Used as an edit summary when correcting typos. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Typo" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Typo">Wikipedia:typo</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Typofix</dt> <dd>A contraction of typo and fix. Any other word may be used in the place of typo to form -fix words.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>U[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: U">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>UAA</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UAA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:UAA">Usernames for Administrator Attention</a>. A noticeboard at which clearly problematic usernames are raised to be dealt with.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>umbrella nomination</dt> <dd>A nomination (e.g., on <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CfD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CfD">CfD</a>) that contains several items (e.g., categories) which are normally nominated individually. Can become a trainwreck.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Unactionable</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Actionable">Actionable</a>.</dd> <dt>Undisambiguated</dt> <dd>An article title without a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguator" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguator">disambiguator</a> is said to be the undisambiguated title or <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Base_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Base name">base name</a>. For example Joker (film) is a disambiguated title, while the title Joker is undisambiguated.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unencyclopedic" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Unencyclopedic">Unencyclopedic</a></dt> <dd>Saying something is unencyclopedic implies that it would not be expected to appear in an encyclopedia, and thus in Wikipedia. (One must remember however that Wikipedia is <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOT">not a paper encyclopedia</a>, hence does not have the space limitations of a paper encyclopedia).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Unnecessary disambiguation</dt> <dd>Adding a <a href="#Disambiguator">disambiguator</a> to a <a href="#base_name">basename</a> in a title of an article when it is not necessary to <a href="#Disambiguation">disambiguate</a> this title from other titles on WP, either because it is the only use of that basename as a title on WP, or because the article's subject is the <a href="#Topic">primary topic</a> for that basename.</dd> <dt>Unregistered user</dt> <dd>See <a href="#IP_user">IP user</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Un-wiki</dt> <dd>Going against the character of a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">Wiki</a>. Usually, saying something is "un-wiki" means it makes editing more difficult (or impossible).</dd> <dt>Un-wikify, unwikify</dt> <dd>Same as <a href="#De-wikify">de-wikify</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>UPE</dt> <dd>Acronym for Undisclosed Paid Editing. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COI" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:COI">WP:COI</a> for conflict of interest concerns.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Upmerge</dt> <dd>A term frequently used on <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CFD">categories for discussion</a>, 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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals">WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals</a>, creating an upmerged template means a stub template, only, feeding into a more general stub type.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Upscope</dt> <dd>A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau_word" class="mw-redirect" title="Portmanteau word">portmanteau</a> of <a href="#Upmerge">upmerge</a> and <a href="#Rescope">rescope</a>. See <a href="#Rescope">rescope</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>User</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Editor">Editor</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Userbox</dt> <dd>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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes" title="Wikipedia:Userboxes">Wikipedia:Userboxes</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Userfy</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userfication" title="Wikipedia:Userfication">Wikipedia:Userfication</a> is the process by which material posted in a Wikipedia article, project, or template space is moved into the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_space" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:User space">user space</a>: into a user page or <a href="#Subpage">subpage</a>. A common case is where an inexperienced user who is not a notable person has created an article about themself. The article would be deleted after userfying – moving its content to a user page.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:User page">User page</a></dt> <dd>A personal page for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedians">Wikipedians</a>. 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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:SomeUserNameHere&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:SomeUserNameHere (page does not exist)">SomeUserNameHere</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Userspace_draft" title="Help:Userspace draft">Userspace draft</a></dt> <dd>A draft created in a user's "userspace".</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>V[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: V">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Vandal</dt> <dd>One who engages in significant amounts of <a href="#Vandalism">vandalism</a>. (Adjective: Vandalic)</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Vandalbot</dt> <dd>Some kind of <a href="#Bot">bot</a> 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 only minutes. See also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vandalbot" class="extiw" title="m:Vandalbot">m:Vandalbot</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism" title="Wikipedia:Vandalism">Vandalism</a></dt> <dd>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 <a href="#Edit_war">edit wars</a>. Vandalism can be reported at <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism" title="Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism">Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>VandalProof</dt> <dd>A no longer used tool for finding and removing vandalism. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof" title="User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof">User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>VFD</dt> <dd>Used to refer to the "Votes for deletion" page. Although this has been replaced with "<a href="#AFD">AFD</a>" (<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AFD">WP:AFD</a>), you may still see the term in older talk pages.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Village pump</dt> <dd>The main community forum of Wikipedia (found at <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump" title="Wikipedia:Village pump">Wikipedia:Village pump</a>), 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.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>vote</dt> <dd>See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/!vote" class="mw-redirect" title="!vote">!vote</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Votestacking <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VOTESTACK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:VOTESTACK">WP:VOTESTACK</a></dt> <dd>The inappropriate <a href="#canvassing">canvassing</a> technique of attempting to sway <a href="#Consensus">consensus</a> by selectively notifying editors who have or are thought to have a predetermined point of view or opinion, and thus encouraging them to participate in a discussion.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>VP</dt> <dd>Shorthand for <a href="#Village_pump">Village pump</a> or for <a href="#VandalProof">VandalProof</a>.</dd> <dt>v/r</dt> <dd>Very respectfully (when signing a message).</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>W[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: W">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wall_of_text" title="Wikipedia:Wall of text">Wall of text</a></dt> <dd>An unusually long paragraph, presenting a solid block of text. Used in a negative sense, and most typically in the context of opinions in a discussion. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn%27t_read" title="Wikipedia:Too long; didn't read">Wikipedia:Too long; didn't read</a> (<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLDR" class="mw-redirect" title="TLDR">TLDR</a>, TL:DR, WP:TLDR).</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Walled_garden" title="Wikipedia:Walled garden">Walled garden</a></dt> <dd>A set of pages or articles that link to one another but aren't interlinked with the rest of the encyclopedia.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Watcher</dt> <dd>An editor who has a particular page on their watchlist. Example usage: "<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales" title="User:Jimbo Wales">User:Jimbo Wales</a> has over 3,000 watchers."</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Watchlist</dt> <dd>A set of pages selected by the user, who can then click on <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist" title="Special:Watchlist">Watchlist</a> in the links next to the user's username to see recent changes to those pages. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Watching_pages" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Watching pages">Help:Watching pages</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Weasel words">Weasel words</a></dt> <dd>Phrases such as "Some say that ..." or "It has been argued ..." which introduce a point of view without attributing it more specifically. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Attributing_and_substantiating_biased_statements" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">Wikipedia:Neutral point of view § Attributing and substantiating biased statements</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wheel_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Wheel war">Wheel war</a></dt> <dd>A dispute between Wikipedia <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">administrators</a> who use the privileges of Wikipedia administrators (such as <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy" title="Wikipedia:Blocking policy">blocking</a>) as weapons in an <a href="#Edit_war">edit war</a>. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Wheel war">Wheel war</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">wiki</a></dt> <dd>Any website that allows easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language. Wikipedia is the most well known example of a wiki.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>WikiBlame</dt> <dd>A <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools" title="Wikipedia:Tools">tool</a> 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 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php">wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php</a> or via the "Revision history search" link on the article's history page.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks" title="Wikibooks">Wikibooks</a></dt> <dd>A Wikipedia sister project which works to develop free textbooks, manuals, and other texts online. Not to be confused with <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books" title="Help:Books">Wikipedia books (PDFs made of multiple articles)</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WBOOKS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WBOOKS">WikiProject Wikipedia-Books</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOOKS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BOOKS">WikiProject Books</a>, or <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(books)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (books)">Wikipedia:Notability (books)</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikibreak" title="Wikipedia:Wikibreak">Wikibreak</a>, wikivacation, Wikiholiday, Wiki-break, etc.</dt> <dd>When a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedian" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedian">Wikipedian</a> takes a break from <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>.</dd> <dt>Wikicode</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Wiki_markup">Wiki markup</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCrime" title="Wikipedia:WikiCrime">WikiCrime</a>, wikicrime</dt> <dd>An egregious case of or clear pattern of editing that violates Wikipedia policies, such as <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VANDAL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:VANDAL">vandalism</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SPAM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SPAM">spam</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DE">disruptive editing</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TE">tendentious editing</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CANVAS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CANVAS">canvassing</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HOAX" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:HOAX">hoaxing</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">adding unverifiable information</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COI" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:COI">self-aggrandizement or promotion</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">removing well-sourced or adding unsourced information to suit personal biases</a>, etc.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiFairy" title="Wikipedia:WikiFairy">WikiFairy</a>, Wikifaerie, Wiki-fairy, etc.</dt> <dd>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 <a href="#WikiGnome">WikiGnomes</a>. See also <a href="#WikiOgre">WikiOgre</a>.</dd> <dt>Wikify, wfy, wikiize, wiki-ise, etc.</dt> <dd>To format using <a href="#Wiki_markup">Wiki markup</a> (as opposed to <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text" title="Plain text">plain text</a> or <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a>). It commonly refers to adding internal links to material (<a href="#Wikilink">Wikilinks</a>) but is not limited to just that. To wikify an article could refer to applying any form of wiki-markup, such as standard headings and layout, including the addition of infoboxes and other templates, or bolding/italicizing of text. Noun: wikification; gerund: wikifying; practitioner: wikifier. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:How to edit a page">Wikipedia:How to edit a page</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_with_too_few_wikilinks" title="Category:Articles with too few wikilinks">Category:Articles with too few wikilinks</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikify" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify">Wikify project</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Guide to layout">Wikipedia:Guide to layout</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking#Overlinking_and_underlinking" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking#Overlinking and underlinking</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiGnome" title="Wikipedia:WikiGnome">WikiGnome</a>, wikignome, Wiki-Gnome, wiki-gnome, etc.</dt> <dd>A Wikipedian who makes minor, helpful edits without clamoring for attention or praise for what they did. See also <a href="#WikiFairy">WikiFairy</a>, <a href="#WikiOgre">WikiOgre</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiHate" title="Wikipedia:WikiHate">WikiHate</a>, wikihate</dt> <dd><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DE">Counterproductive editing attitude and behavior</a>, especially <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TE">tendentious</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">biased</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPA">personally antagonistic</a> types of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:EDITWAR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:EDITWAR">edit-warring</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Harassment#Hounding" title="Wikipedia:Harassment">Wikihounding</a></dt> <dd>The singling out of one or more editors, and joining discussions on multiple pages or topics they may edit or multiple debates where they contribute, in order to repeatedly confront or inhibit their work, with an apparent aim of creating irritation, annoyance or distress to the other editor. Note that editors can and do follow others in <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AGF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AGF">good faith</a> with constructive intent; it is the manner and motivation which distinguishes wikihounding.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikilawyering" title="Wikipedia:Wikilawyering">Wikilawyering</a></dt> <dd>Attempting to inappropriately rely on technicalities in a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal" class="mw-redirect" title="Legal">legalistic</a> manner with respect to <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Policies">Wikipedia:Policies</a> or <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration">Wikipedia:Arbitration</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Wikilink, wl, internal link</dt> <dd>A link to another Wikipedia page or to an <a href="#Anchor">anchor</a> on the same page, as opposed to an <a href="#External_link">external link</a>. For policy, see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking#Overlinking_and_underlinking" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking#Overlinking and underlinking</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Build_the_web" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Build the web">Wikipedia:Build the web</a>. For mechanics, see <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Canonicalization" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Canonicalization">Wikipedia:Canonicalization</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Section#Section_linking" title="Help:Section">Help:Section § Section linking</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup#Links_and_URLs" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Wiki markup">Help:Wiki markup § Links and URLs</a>, and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources/Further_considerations#Wikilinks_to_full_references" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources/Further considerations">Wikipedia:Citing sources/Further considerations § Wikilinks to full references</a>. See also <a href="#Free_link">free link</a> and <a href="#Piped_link">piped link</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiLove" title="Wikipedia:WikiLove">WikiLove</a>, wikilove</dt> <dd>A general spirit of collegiality and mutual understanding among Wikipedians. The term <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb" title="WikiWikiWeb">pre-dates Wikipedia</a>. WikiLove is achieved through <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIKIQUETTE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WIKIQUETTE">wikiquette</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CIVIL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CIVIL">civility</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AGF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AGF">assumption of good faith</a> about other editors, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutrality</a>, respect for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:POLICY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:POLICY">policies and guidelines</a>, and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CALM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CALM">calm editing and discussion</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Wiki markup, wikitext, wiki text, wiki-text, wikicode, wiki code, wiki-code, etc.</dt> <dd>Markup-language code like <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a>, but simplified and more convenient like a more powerful <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode" title="BBCode">BBCode</a>: for example, it uses three apostrophes on either site of text to create <code>'''boldfaced text'''</code> instead of <code>boldfaced text</code>.</dd> <dd>Wiki markup is the source code stored in Wikipedia's database and shown in the edit box, and then rendered into HTML to appear correctly in a reader's <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_browser" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet browser">internet browser</a>. <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Searching" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Searching">Searching</a> by the Wikipedia software is done in the wikitext, as opposed to searching by external <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engines" class="mw-redirect" title="Search engines">search engines</a>, which is done in the resulting HTML. The size of a page is the size of the wikitext. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_markup" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiki markup">Wiki markup</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Wiki markup">Help:Wiki markup</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:How to edit a page">Wikipedia:How to edit a page</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Guide to layout">Wikipedia:Guide to layout</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Wikimedia</dt> <dd>Properly <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.</a> (WMF), a non-profit organization that provides a legal, financial, and organizational framework for Wikipedia and its sister projects and provides the necessary hardware. Contrast <a href="#MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiOgre" title="Wikipedia:WikiOgre">WikiOgre</a>, Wiki-ogre, wikiogre, etc.</dt> <dd>A Wikipedian who makes large edits from time to time but generally keeps to <a href="#WikiGnome">WikiGnomery</a>. See also <a href="#WikiFairy">WikiFairy</a>.</dd> <dt>Wikipediholic, Wikiholic</dt> <dd>A Wikipedian who obsesses over the project to the point where interacting with Wikipedia becomes akin to a <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_addiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychological addiction">psychological addiction</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan" title="Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan">Wikipe-tan</a>, Wiki-tan</dt> <dd>One of the personifications of Wikipedia. She is the mascot character of various WikiProjects.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Wikipipe</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Pipe">Pipe</a></dd> <dt>Wikiportal, Wiki portal, etc.</dt> <dd>Pages intended to be the main pages for readers and editors interested in a specific area of knowledge, helping them to find the information on the specific topic and, for editors, to be inspired to develop the articles connected with it. Such editors might want to join a related <a href="#WikiProject">WikiProject</a>. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Portal" title="Wikipedia:Portal">Wikipedia:Portal</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject">WikiProject</a></dt> <dd>An active group of Wikipedia editors working together to improve a specific group of articles and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Files" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Files">files</a>, usually those on one or more related topics. This often includes standardizing the content and style of the articles using an agreed upon standard format.</dd> <dd>The members of a WikiProject might work to improve and maintain a <a href="#Wiki_portal">Wiki portal</a> of the same or related name.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Wikiquette</dt> <dd>The etiquette of working with others on Wikipedia. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Etiquette" title="Wikipedia:Etiquette">Wikipedia:Etiquette</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiquote" title="Wikiquote">Wikiquote</a></dt> <dd>A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online collection of quotations.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Wikislap</dt> <dd>Providing someone with the URL of a Wikipedia article when they express a lack of knowledge about a particular topic.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a></dt> <dd>A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online compendium of primary source texts.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Wikispace</dt> <dd>The Wikipedia <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">namespace</a>. See <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace#Pseudo-namespaces" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">Wikipedia:Namespace § Pseudo-namespaces</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut_directory" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut directory">Wikipedia:Shortcut directory</a> (also known as <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WP">WP:WP</a>).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Wikispam</dt> <dd>Articles or sections created to promote a product or <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme" title="Meme">meme</a>. <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spam" title="Wikipedia:Spam">Spamming</a> also includes adding extraneous or irrelevant links to promote an outside site, particularly for commercial purposes. No type of spamming is allowed on Wikipedia.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies" title="Wikispecies">Wikispecies</a></dt> <dd>A Wikipedia sister project. It is a wiki-based, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_Latin_name_abbreviations" class="mw-redirect" title="Species Latin name abbreviations">species directory</a> which provides a solution to the problem that there is no central registration of <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species" title="Species">species</a> data in Wikipedia. Wikispecies provides a central, more extensive database for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy_(biology)" title="Taxonomy (biology)">taxonomy</a>. Wikispecies is aimed at the needs of scientific users rather than general users.</dd> <dt>Wikistress, Wiki-Stress, wiki-stress, etc.</dt> <dd>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 <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wstress3d" title="Template:Wstress3d">the Wikistress template</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Boschmeter" title="Template:Boschmeter">the Bosch Wikistress Meter</a>, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikistress" class="extiw" title="m:Wikistress">Wikistress</a>.</dd> <dt>WikiTerrorism, wikiterrorism, WikiTerror, wikiterror</dt> <dd>A melodramatic term for the act of purposely trying to damage <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> on a large scale. It can be <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VAND" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:VAND">vandalism</a>, but it could include <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TROLL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TROLL">trolling</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:EW" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:EW">edit warring</a>, or anything that could disrupt Wikipedia on a large scale. WikiTerrorism could also be "blitzing" Wikipedia, or vandalizing several articles in rapid succession. Such actions should be <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AIV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AIV">reported immediately to administrators</a> and will usually be <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLOCK">blocked.</a> Some may consider this term in bad taste or hyperbolic.</dd> <dt>Wikitext</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Wiki_markup">Wiki markup</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary" title="Wiktionary">Wiktionary</a>, wikt., etc.</dt> <dd>A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online dictionary of every language. Note that it is not spelled Wikitionary; there is no I between the K and the T.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>WMF</dt> <dd>See <a href="#Wikimedia">Wikimedia</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>Wolf vote</dt> <dd>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 <a href="#Sheep_vote">sheep vote</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>WP</dt> <dd>1. Common abbreviation for <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>, especially for pages in the Wikipedia <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">namespace</a>. See also <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace#Pseudo-namespaces" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">Wikipedia:Namespace § Pseudo-namespaces</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WP">WP:WP</a>.</dd> <dd>2. Also sometimes used as an abbreviation for <a href="#WikiProject">WikiProject</a>. See also <a href="#WPP">WPP</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>WPP</dt> <dd>Abbreviation for <a href="#WikiProject">WikiProject</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; font-size:x-small;"><a href="#toc">Back to contents</a></div> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks hlist" aria-label="Contents" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:left;"> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#top">Top</a></li> <li><a href="#!$@">!$@</a></li> <li><a href="#0–9">0–9</a></li> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#JK">JK</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#XYZ">XYZ</a> </li></ul> </div></div></div> <h2>X[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: X">edit</a>]</h2> <dl><dt>XfD, XFD</dt> <dd>Generic term for the collection of deletion discussion pages such as <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:MFD">MfD</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AFD">AfD</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CFD">CfD</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RFD">RfD</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FFD">FfD</a>, et al. where the "X" stands in for Miscellany, Article, Category, Redirect, File etc.; "fD" stands for " for deletion" (or discussion in some cases).</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>XNR</dt> <dd>Acronym for <a href="#Cross-namespace_redirects">Cross-namespace redirects</a>. Used mainly at <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion">Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion</a> to emphasize for deletion. Sometimes given as <a href="#CNR">CNR</a>.</dd> <dt><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023754711"/>XWiki</dt> <dd>Abbreviation of "Cross-Wiki", used to describe something taking place on multiple Wikimedia sites because of a common source.</dd></dl> <h2>See also[<a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Glossary&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</h2> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_abbreviations" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia abbreviations">Wikipedia:Wikipedia abbreviations</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WTF%3F_OMG!_TMD_TLA._ARG!" title="Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!">Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_summary_legend" title="Wikipedia:Edit summary legend">Wikipedia:Edit summary legend</a> a supplemental glossary of formulaic <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_summary" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Edit summary">edit summaries</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion#Shorthands" title="Wikipedia:Guide to deletion">Wikipedia:Guide to deletion § Shorthands</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor%27s_index_to_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia">Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies_and_guidelines_to_cite_in_deletion_debates" title="Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines to cite in deletion debates">Wikipedia:List of policies 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style="width:1%"><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines">Protocols</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies" title="Wikipedia:List of policies">Policies</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:List of guidelines">Guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Contents" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Contents">Manual of Style</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Assistance</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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title="Help:Glossary">Readers</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut_directory" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut directory">Shortcuts</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents" title="Wikipedia:Contents">Encyclopedia proper</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Types</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Overviews" title="Wikipedia:Contents/Overviews">Overviews</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines" title="Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines">Outlines</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Lists" title="Wikipedia:Contents/Lists">Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Portals" title="Wikipedia:Contents/Portals">Portals</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Glossaries" title="Wikipedia:Contents/Glossaries">Glossaries</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Categories" title="Wikipedia:Contents/Categories">Categories</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Indices" title="Wikipedia:Contents/Indices">Indices</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_content" title="Wikipedia:Featured content">Featured</a>, <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles" title="Wikipedia:Good articles">good</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles" title="Wikipedia:Featured articles">Featured articles</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Good_articles" title="Category:Good articles">Good articles</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_lists" title="Wikipedia:Featured lists">Featured lists</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">Featured 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arts">Culture</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Geography_and_places" title="Wikipedia:Contents/Geography and places">Geography</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Health_and_fitness" title="Wikipedia:Contents/Health and fitness">Health</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/History_and_events" title="Wikipedia:Contents/History and events">History</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Mathematics_and_logic" title="Wikipedia:Contents/Mathematics and logic">Math</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Natural_and_physical_sciences" title="Wikipedia:Contents/Natural and physical sciences">Nature</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/People_and_self" 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For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dashboard" title="Wikipedia:Dashboard">Dashboard</a>.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About" title="Wikipedia:About">General community topics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administration" title="Wikipedia:Administration">Administration</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:News" title="Wikipedia:News">News</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost">The Signpost</a></li> <li><a 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class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AFC/R">WP:AFC/R</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_creation" title="Wikipedia:Article creation">Creation</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk">Help</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles" title="Wikipedia:Vital articles">Vital articles</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_improvement" title="Wikipedia:Articles for improvement">Articles for improvement</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_review" title="Wikipedia:Peer review">Peer review</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations" title="Wikipedia:Good article nominations">Good article nominations</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates" title="Wikipedia:Featured article candidates">Featured article candidates</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_list_candidates" title="Wikipedia:Featured list candidates">Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates" title="Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates">Pictures</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_and_good_topic_candidates" title="Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates">Topics</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Translation" title="Wikipedia:Translation">Article translation</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pages_needing_translation_into_English" title="Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English">Pages</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page" title="Talk:Main Page">Main Page</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors" title="Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors">Errors</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject">WikiProjects</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_collaborations" title="Category:Wikipedia collaborations">collaborations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory">Directory</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/Culture" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture">Culture and the arts</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/Geographical" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical">Geographical</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/History_and_society" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/History and society">History and society</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/Science" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Science">Science, technology and engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Wikipedia">Wikipedia assistance and tasks</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Patrols" title="Wikipedia:Patrols">Patrols</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_changes_patrol" title="Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol">Recent changes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism_Unit" title="Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit">Counter-Vandalism Unit</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team" title="Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team">Version 1.0 Editorial Team</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Accessibility" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility">Accessibility</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedian_organizations" title="Category:Wikipedian organizations">Organizations category</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Awards" title="Wikipedia:Awards">Awards</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Positive_feedback" title="Wikipedia:Positive feedback">feedback</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reward_board" title="Wikipedia:Reward board">Reward board</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contests" title="Wikipedia:Contests">Contests</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:A_nice_cup_of_tea_and_a_sit_down" title="Wikipedia:A nice cup of tea and a sit down">A nice cup of tea and a sit down</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Charitableness" title="Wikipedia:Charitableness">Charitableness</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiLove" title="Wikipedia:WikiLove">WikiLove</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Compliment_before_criticism" title="Wikipedia:Compliment before criticism">Compliment before criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kindness_Campaign" title="Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign">Kindness Campaign</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Thanks" title="Help:Notifications/Thanks">Thanks!</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Maintenance" title="Wikipedia:Maintenance">Maintenance tasks</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Task_Center" title="Wikipedia:Task Center">Task Center</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal/Opentask" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask">Open tasks</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Backlog" title="Wikipedia:Backlog">Backlog</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_backlog" title="Category:Wikipedia backlog">Category</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Administrative_backlog" title="Category:Administrative backlog">Admin category</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_requests" title="Wikipedia:Edit requests">Edit requests</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_edit_requests" title="Category:Wikipedia edit requests">Category</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports" title="Wikipedia:Database reports">Database reports</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Category_tracker" title="Template:Category tracker">Category tracker</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Forgotten_articles" title="Wikipedia:Database reports/Forgotten articles">Dusty articles</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="Special:SpecialPages">Special pages</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed" title="Special:NewPagesFeed">New pages</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="Special:RecentChanges">Recent changes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_controversial_issues" title="Wikipedia:List of controversial issues">Controversial issues</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">Administrators</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Noticeboards" title="Wikipedia:Noticeboards">noticeboards</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard">Administrators' noticeboard</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents">Incidents</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Edit_warring" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring">Edit warring</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism" title="Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism">Vandalism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Admin_dashboard" title="Template:Admin dashboard">Admin dashboard</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_administrator_attention" title="Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention">Admin requests</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Requests_for_closure" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure">Closure</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection" title="Wikipedia:Requests for page protection">Page protection</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions">User permissions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations" title="Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations">Sockpuppets</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_on_open_proxies" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies">Open proxies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Revision_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Revision deletion">Revision deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight" title="Wikipedia:Oversight">Oversight</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_oversight" title="Wikipedia:Requests for oversight">Request</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Usernames_for_administrator_attention" title="Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention">Usernames</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username" title="Wikipedia:Changing username">Changing</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Titleblacklist" title="MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist">Title blacklist</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OTRS_noticeboard" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OTRS noticeboard">OTRS</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bureaucrats%27_noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard">Bureaucrats'</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship" title="Wikipedia:Requests for adminship">Requests for adminship</a> and <a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship#About_RfB" title="Wikipedia:Requests for adminship">bureaucratship</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard">Arbitration Committee</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests">Requests</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement">Enforcement</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution#Resolving_content_disputes_with_outside_help" title="Wikipedia:Dispute resolution">Content dispute resolution</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/All" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment/All">Requests for comment</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Third_opinion" title="Wikipedia:Third opinion">Third opinion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard">Dispute resolution noticeboard</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard">Biographies of living persons</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard">Conflict of interest</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links/Noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard">External links</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard">Fringe theories</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard">Neutral point of view</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research/Noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard">No original research</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard">Reliable sources</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Other noticeboards and assistance</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Regional_notice_boards" title="Wikipedia:Regional notice boards">Regional notice boards</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_directory" title="Wikipedia:Request directory">Requests for help</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requests_related_to_help" title="Category:Wikipedia requests related to help">Category</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questions" title="Wikipedia:Questions">Asking questions</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse" title="Wikipedia:Teahouse">Teahouse</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk" title="Wikipedia:Help desk">Help desk</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk" title="Wikipedia:Reference desk">Reference desk</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user" title="Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user">Adopt-a-user</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_assistance" title="Wikipedia:Copyright assistance">Copyright assistance</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributor_copyright_investigations" title="Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations">Copyright investigations</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problems" title="Wikipedia:Copyright problems">Text problems</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions" title="Wikipedia:Media copyright questions">Media questions</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request">Resource requests</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_mergers" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Proposed mergers">Mergers</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_history_merge" title="Wikipedia:Requests for history merge">History mergers</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_moves" title="Wikipedia:Requested moves">Moves</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_importation" title="Wikipedia:Requests for page importation">Page importation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam" title="Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam">Spam</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist" title="MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist">Blacklist</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-whitelist" title="MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist">Whitelist</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard">Bots</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Education noticeboard">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_sanctions" title="Wikipedia:General sanctions">General sanctions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_restrictions" title="Wikipedia:Editing restrictions">Editor sanctions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse" title="Wikipedia:Long-term abuse">Long-term abuse</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_process#Deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Deletion process">Deletion discussions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Guide to deletion">Guide</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_guidelines_for_administrators" title="Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators">Admin</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:XfD_today" title="Wikipedia:XfD today">Today</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion">Articles</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Templates for discussion">Templates</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Files_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Files for discussion">Files</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion">Categories</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion">Redirects</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20220529194600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion">Miscellany</a></li> <li><a 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hreflang="av" class="interlanguage-link-target">Авар</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipediya:Terminl%C9%99r" title="Vikipediya:Terminlər – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%B3%D8%A4%D8%B2%D9%84%D9%88%DA%A9" title="ویکی‌پدیا:سؤزلوک – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bjn mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://bjn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipidia:Kamus" title="Wikipidia:Kamus – Banjar" lang="bjn" hreflang="bjn" class="interlanguage-link-target">Banjar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Te%CC%8Dk-s%C3%BB_i%C5%8Dng-g%C3%AD" title="Wikipedia:Te̍k-sû iōng-gí – Chinese (Min Nan)" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA" title="Уикипедия:Речник – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajuda:Glossari" title="Ajuda:Glossari – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Slovn%C3%AD%C4%8Dek" title="Wikipedie:Slovníček – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicipedia:Geirfa" title="Wicipedia:Geirfa – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hj%C3%A6lp:Ordliste" title="Hjælp:Ordliste – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Glossar" title="Hilfe:Glossar – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:Vikipeedia_m%C3%B5isteid" title="Vikipeedia:Vikipeedia mõisteid – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayuda:Glosario" title="Ayuda:Glosario – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helpo:Vikipedia_terminaro" title="Helpo:Vikipedia terminaro – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguntza:Glosategia" title="Laguntza:Glosategia – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%98%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87" title="ویکی‌پدیا:واژه‌نامه – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Or%C3%B0alisti" title="Wikipedia:Orðalisti – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Føroyskt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Jargon_de_Wikip%C3%A9dia" title="Aide:Jargon de Wikipédia – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glosario" title="Wikipedia:Glosario – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-inh mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://inh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8:%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9" title="Википеди:Глоссарий – Ingush" lang="inh" hreflang="inh" class="interlanguage-link-target">ГӀалгӀай</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8E%D5%AB%D6%84%D5%AB%D5%BA%D5%A5%D5%A4%D5%AB%D5%A1:%D4%B3%D5%AC%D5%B8%D5%BD%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B4" title="Վիքիպեդիա:Գլոսարիում – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80" title="विकिपीडिया:शब्दावली – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Skr%C3%B3t%C5%A1enja" title="Wikipedija:Skrótšenja – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hornjoserbsce</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Rje%C4%8Dnik" title="Wikipedija:Rječnik – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kamus" title="Wikipedia:Kamus – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8:%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8" title="Википеди:Глоссари – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ирон</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hugtakaskr%C3%A1" title="Wikipedia:Hugtakaskrá – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Glossario" title="Aiuto:Glossario – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%97%D7%99%D7%9D" title="ויקיפדיה:מונחים – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%90:%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A9%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%98" title="ვიკიპედია:ტერმინების სარჩევი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-csb mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki:Terminologij%C3%B4" title="Wiki:Terminologijô – Kashubian" lang="csb" hreflang="csb" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kaszëbsczi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9" title="Уикипедия:Глоссарий – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Istilahi_za_wiki" title="Wikipedia:Istilahi za wiki – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9" title="Уикипедия:Глоссарий – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кыргызча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lad mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://lad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedya:Dictionary" title="Vikipedya:Dictionary – Ladino" lang="lad" hreflang="lad" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ladino</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicipaedia:Index" title="Vicipaedia:Index – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%ABllef:Jargon" title="Hëllef:Jargon – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedija:Terminai" title="Vikipedija:Terminai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nia mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://nia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ngawua_wehede" title="Wikipedia:Ngawua wehede – Nias" lang="nia" hreflang="nia" class="interlanguage-link-target">Li Niha</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wikifogalmak_jegyz%C3%A9ke" title="Wikipédia:Wikifogalmak jegyzéke – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Glossarju" title="Wikipedija:Glossarju – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9E%E0%A4%BE" title="विकिपीडिया:विकिसंज्ञा – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" class="interlanguage-link-target">मराठी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glosari" title="Wikipedia:Glosari – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220529194600/https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kamuih_istilah" title="Wikipedia:Kamuih istilah – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" class="interlanguage-link-target">Minangkabau</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a 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