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| − | This is a '''[[glossary]] of terms commonly used on [[Wikipedia]]'''. For more help, see [[Wikipedia:Help]], [[Wikipedia:FAQ]], and [[Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ]]. For abbreviations often used in [[Wikipedia:edit summary|edit summaries]], see [[Wikipedia:Edit summary legend]]. For common shorthands used in [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion|VfD]], see the [[Wikipedia:Guide to Votes for deletion]].
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| − | ;<span id=Accidental_link style="font-weight: bold">Accidental link</span>
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| − | : A [[#Wikilink|wikilink]] where the displayed text is the name of the target article. To display text other than the name of the target article, use a [[#Piped link|piped link]].
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| − | ;<span id="Admin" style="font-weight: bold">Admin</span>
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| − | : Short for [[Wikipedia:Administrator|Administrator]]. A user with extra technical privileges who does housework.
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| − | : ''Also used: '''[[#Sysop|Sysop]]'''.''
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| − | : Describing an article that exists more to advertise or promote a product, company, service or site than to provide encyclopedic information on it.
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| − | ;<span id=Anchor style="font-weight: bold">Anchor</span>
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| − | : An [[HTML]] term for code that lets you link to a specific point in a page, using the "#" character. You can use them to link to a [[Wikipedia:section|section]] of a page, e.g. [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links,_URLs,_images]]. ''Note that anchors currently have no effect in redirects.''
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| − | ;<span id=AOTW style="font-weight: bold">AOTW</span>
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| − | : [[Wikipedia:Article of the week|Article of the week]], an article needing improvement that is selected by vote to be the subject of widespread cooperative editing for a week. This has been recently renamed as [[Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week]], or '''[[#COTW|COTW]]'''.
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| − | ;<span id=Arbitration style="font-weight: bold">Arbitration</span>
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| − | : The final step in the [[Wikipedia:Dispute resolution|dispute resolution]] process.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Archive style="font-weight: bold">Archive</span>
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| − | : A '''[[#Subpage|subpage]]''' of a '''[[#Talk page|Talk page]]''' to which some parts of the discussion are transferred, to reduce the size of the Talk page. Rarely, the term may refer to the [[Wikipedia:Archive]] page, for obsolete historical material.
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| − | : ''See also: [[Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Article style="font-weight: bold">Article</span>
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| − | : An encyclopedia entry. All articles are pages, but not all pages are articles.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:What is an article]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Ban style="font-weight: bold">Ban</span>
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| − | : Banning is the extreme, last resort action by which someone is prevented from editing Wikipedia for a prolonged or indeterminate length of time. Reason for banning is usually a long history of biased edits, persistent adding of incorrect or doubtful material, refusal to cooperate with others, or extreme incivility and threats. If someone is banned, their username is blocked, and any username or IP that is with great likelihood identified as being the same person can be blocked without any further reason. See also: '''[[#Block|Block]]'''.
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| − | : The exhortation that users should try to fix mistakes in articles themselves, rather than complaining about it. See [[Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages]].
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| − | ;<span id=BEEFSTEW style="font-weight: bold">BEEFSTEW</span>
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| − | : A proposed rubric that some editors use for judging the quality of articles on high schools (and, by extension, elementary schools). See [[User:Dpbsmith/BEEFSTEW]].
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| − | : Abbreviation for [[Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense]].
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| − | ;<span id=Blanking style="font-weight: bold">Blanking</span>
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| − | : Removing all content from a page. Newcomers often do this accidentally. On the other hand, if blanking an article is done in bad faith, it is ''[[#Vandalism|vandalism]]''. If blanking is done to a vandalised brand-new page, it is maintenance, and the page will be deleted by an [[#Admin|admin]] within a few hours if no dispute arises. <nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki> should be added to the blanked page to draw attention to it, rather than just blanking it. Newcomers often mistake blanking for ''deletion''.
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| − | : Action by a sysop, removing from a certain IP-number or username the ability to edit Wikipedia. Usually done against addresses that have done vandalism or against users who have been banned. See also: '''[[#Ban|Ban]]'''.
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| − | ;<span id=Boilerplate_text style="font-weight: bold">Boilerplate text</span>
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| − | : A standard message which can be added to an article using a [[m:template|template]]. For example, <nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki> is expanded to the following:
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| − | <div class="boilerplate metadata" id="stub" style="white-space: nowrap;"> ''This article is a [[Wikipedia:Perfect stub article|stub]]. You can [[Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub|help]] Wikipedia by [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} expanding it]''.</div >
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Boilerplate text]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Bot style="font-weight: bold">Bot</span>
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| − | : A program that automatically or semi-automatically adds or edits Wikipedia-pages.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Bots]], '''[[#Rambot|Rambot]]'''.''
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| − | ;<span id=Broken_link style="font-weight: bold">Broken link</span>
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| − | : ''Also used: '''edit link''', '''red link'''.''
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| − | : A link to a nonexistent page, usually colored {{red|red}}. [[Template:]] may display this way depending on your settings.
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| − | ;<span id=Broken_redirect style="font-weight: bold">Broken redirect</span>
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| − | : Redirect to a non-existing page. Common opinion is that these should be removed.
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| − | ;<span id=Bureaucrat style="font-weight: bold">Bureaucrat</span>
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| − | : A Wikipedia Administrator who has been entrusted with promoting users to sysops.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Bureaucrats]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Cabal style="font-weight: bold">Cabal</span>
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| − | : A secretive organization which some Wikipedians claim is ultimately responsible for the development of Wikipedia. Supposedly the Cabal acts to stifle dissent and impose their private [[Wikipedia:Point of view|points of view]] while hypocritically extolling [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|NPOV]]. [[#Admin|Admins]] who take action against users for seemingly illogical or immature reasons are often claimed to be acting on behalf of the Cabal.
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| − | : ''Compare with '''[[#Troll|Troll]]'''.''
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| − | : ''See also [[m:Cabal]], [[There Is No Cabal]].''
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| − | : A category is a collection of pages automatically formed by the Wikipedia servers by analysing category tags in articles. Category tags are in the form <nowiki>[[Category:Computers]]</nowiki>. The part after the ":" is the name of the Category. Adding a category tag causes a link to the category and any super-categories to go to the bottom of the page. As stated, it also results in the page being added to the category listing. A list of basic categories to browse through can be found at [[:Category:Fundamental]].
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| − | ;<span id=CfD style="font-weight: bold">CfD</span>
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| − | ;<span id=Chatty style="font-weight: bold">Chatty</span>
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| − | : A term used for articles which seem to attempt a conversation with the reader. Chatty articles may need [[Wikipedia:cleanup|cleanup]].
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| − | ;<span id=Cleanup style="font-weight: bold">Cleanup</span>
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| − | : The process of repairing articles that are ungrammatical, are poorly formatted, etc. Cleanup generally requires only editing skills, as opposed to the specialized knowledge that is more often called for by [[Wikipedia:Pages needing attention|pages needing attention]].
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| − | : ''See also: [[Wikipedia:Cleanup process]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Comment out="font-weight: bold">Comment out</span>
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| − | : To hide from normal display whilst retaining the material for editors to see. This is done by inserting the characters <nowiki><!--</nowiki> at the start of the comment text and <nowiki>--></nowiki> at the end. These character strings are used to delimit comments in HTML code.
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| − | : One of Wikipedia's main pages. It can often be found on the quickbar (on the left side in most skins), and is a page that lists the collaboration of the week, outstanding tasks that need to be addressed, and several other useful bits of information and resources. The Community Portal is useful for picking an article or topic to work on or read.
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| − | : Short for contributions. These are the edits that a user has made.
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| − | : A change to an article that only affects formatting, grammar, and other presentational aspects.
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| − | ;<span id=Copyvio style="font-weight: bold">Copyvio</span>
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| − | : ''Also used: '''copyviol'''.''
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| − | : [[Copyright]] violation. Usually used in an edit summary when some copyrighted material has been added to Wikipedia.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]].''
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| − | : [[Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week|Collaboration of the week]], an article needing improvement that is selected by vote to be the subject of widespread cooperative editing for a week.
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| − | : [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias|WikiProject Countering systemic bias]] or, more rarely, an adjective for an topic of concern to the WikiProject, e.g. "This doesn't seem to be a CSB article."
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| − | ;<span id=Cut_and_paste move style="font-weight: bold">Cut and paste move</span>
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| − | : Moving a page by taking the text of the page, and put it into the edit window for the second page. Generally considered worse than the 'move page' option, because it causes the page and its edit history to be in different places. Cut and paste moves can be fixed by administrators.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves]].''
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| − | ;<span id=dab style="font-weight: bold">dab</span>
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| − | : ''See '''[[#Disambiguation|Disambiguation]]'''.''
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| − | ;<span id=Data dump style="font-weight: bold">Data dump</span>
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| − | : To import material from outside sources into Wikipedia without editing, formatting and linking. This is frowned upon by most [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedians]].
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| − | : ''See also '''[[#Wikify|Wikify]]'''.''
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| − | ;<span id=Dead-end_page style="font-weight: bold">Dead-end page</span>
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| − | : Page that has no links to existing other pages, except perhaps interlanguage links. [[Special:Deadendpages]] lists them, but this function is disabled in some Wikimedia projects.
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| − | ;<span id=De-admin style="font-weight: bold">De-admin</span>
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| − | : ''See '''[[#De-sysop|De-sysop]]'''.''
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| − | ;<span id=De-bold style="font-weight: bold">De-bold</span>
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| − | : ''Also used: '''un-bold'''.''
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| − | : To remove a phrase's bold typeface, because it is not the first reference to the title or a synonym of the topic (which should be bold), or that it is not the topic of the article at all. Common situations when one would de-bold include: bold foreign words (should instead be italicized) and bold Wikilinks (which, according to current [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]], should be plain).
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| − | : Someone who is in favor of deleting some pages that others prefer to keep. Often used as a derogatory term. The term 'inclusionist' for the opposite party is less used.
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| − | : ''See also [[m:deletionism]] and [[m:inclusionism]].''
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| − | : ''Also used: '''De-admin'''.''
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| − | : Take away someone's sysop status. Used very rarely, in cases where someone has misused their sysop powers.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Possible misuses of admin privileges]].''
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| − | : A user who can make direct changes to the [[Wikipedia software]] and database.
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| − | : ''See also [[m:Developer]] for a list of developers and further information.''
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| − | : ''Also used: '''Un-Wikify'''.''
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| − | : To remove (de-link) a [[#Wikify|wikification]] of an article. This can be done to remove [[#Self-link|selflinks]] or excessive common-noun Wikification.
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| − | : Short for a dictionary definition. This term is commonly used on [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]] when referring to an article that is more similar to a dictionary article than an encyclopedia one.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary]].''
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| − | : The difference between two versions of page, as displayed using the ''Page history'' feature, or from [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent Changes]]. The versions to compare are encoded in the [[URL]], so you can make a link by copying and pasting it - for instance when discussing a change on an article's talk page.
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| − | : ''See also [[m:Help:Diff]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Disambiguation style="font-weight: bold">Disambiguation</span>
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| − | : ''Also used: '''dab''', '''disambig'''.''
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| − | : The process of resolving the conflict that occurs when articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation]].''
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| − | : A page that contains various meanings of a word, and refers to the pages where the various meanings are defined.
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| − | : A [[#Redirect|redirect]] which leads to another redirect. Counterintuitively, this will not bring one to the final destination, so it needs to be eliminated by linking directly to the target redirect.
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| − | ;<span id=Dupe style="font-weight: bold">Dupe</span>
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| − | : Short for a duplicate article. Often used when identifying a duplicate page that needs to be '''[[#Merge|merged]]''' with another.
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| − | : Two or more parties both attempt to save different edits to the same page at the same time, causing one to get canceled out.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Edit conflicts]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Edit_link style="font-weight: bold">Edit link</span>
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| − | : ''See '''[[#Broken link|Broken link]]'''.''
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| − | ;<span id=Edit_summary style="font-weight: bold">Edit summary</span>
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| − | : The contents of the "Summary:" field below the edit box on the "Edit this page" page.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Edit summary]].''
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| − | : ''Also used: '''revert war'''.''
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| − | : Two or more parties continually making their preferred changes to a page, and undoing the changes they don't agree with. Generally, an edit war is the result of an argument on a talk page that could not be resolved.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Edit war]].''
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| − | : ''Also used: '''ext. ln''', '''ext lk''', or '''extlink'''.''
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| − | : A link to a website not owned by Wikimedia. The alternatives are an '''internal link''', '''wikilink''' or '''free link''' within Wikipedia, and an [[m:interwiki link|interwiki link]] to a sister project.
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| − | : [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]], an article that has been selected as representing "the best of Wikipedia". Articles become featured articles when a [[#FAC|FAC]] gets consensus for promotion.
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| − | : [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates|Featured article candidate]], an article that has been proposed for consideration to be [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|featured]] as one of the best in Wikipedia.
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| − | : [[Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates|Featured article removal candidate]], a [[#FA|featured article]] whose "featured" status is considered for removal, either because the featured article criteria or the article itself changed.
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| − | : A [[neologism]] most often seen on [[WP:VFD]], meaning a trivia article of interest only to hardcore fans of a specific film, television series, book, game, etc. Where the line is drawn is highly subjective and can be controversial. Often seen as an insult to those who've contributed that information, and to others interested in the subject.
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| − | : A [[flame war]] which spreads, seemingly uncontrollably, beyond the pages where it began into unrelated articles' talk pages. A forest fire becomes progressively more difficult for any user to keep track of. On Wikipedia, this is less of a problem than on other [[wiki]]s, due to well-established boundaries for [[Wikipedia:Request for comments|user conduct]], clear guidelines for [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|article content]], and a formal [[Wikipedia:Dispute resolution|dispute resolution process]].
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| − | : A splitting of an entity to satisfy different groups of people - in Wikipedia, this can either mean a project-wide split, in which a group of users decides to take a project database and continue with it on their own site (which is perfectly legal under the [[#GFDL|GFDL]]), or the split of an article, usually to a accommodate different [[#POV|POVs]]. The latter is often called a '''POV fork''' and generelly regarded as highly undesirable.
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| − | : A link pointing to another page within Wikipedia or its sister projects by using the wiki markup double square-brackets <nowiki>"[[" and "]]"</nowiki>. Sometimes they are referred to as '''wikilink'''s or '''internal link'''s. These links usually show up as <font color=blue>blue</font> if they are working and you haven't visited them before, <font color=red>red</font> if they are broken, and <font color=purple>purple</font> if they are working and you have visited them before; note that they do not have the arrow symbol characteristic of an external link.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]].''
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| − | ;<span id=History style="font-weight: bold">History</span>
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| − | : All previous versions of an article, from its creation to its current state. Also called ''page history''.
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| − | :An abbreviation for [[Wikipedia:Images for deletion|Images for Deletion]].
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| − | : 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 [[m:Inclusionism|Inclusionism]] — radical Inclusionists vote "Keep" on every [[#VfD|VFD]] 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 classical criteria for inclusion in an encyclopedia, or if the articles in question have quality problems.
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| − | :A consistently-formatted table which is present in articles with a common subject.
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| − | : ''See also: '''[[#Taxobox|taxobox]]'''.''
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| − | ;<span id=Internal_link style="font-weight: bold">Internal link</span>
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| − | : ''See '''[[#Free_link|free link]]'''.''
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| − | ;<span id=Interwiki style="font-weight: bold">ITN</span>
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| − | :An abbreviation for [[Template:In the news]]
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| − | ==J==
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| − | ;<span id=Jimbo style="font-weight: bold">Jimbo</span>
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| − | : [[Jimmy Wales]], chair of the [[Wikimedia]] Foundation.
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| − | ==L==
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| − | ;<span id=Language_link style="font-weight: bold">Language link</span>
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| − | : ''See '''[[#Interwiki|Interwiki]]'''.''
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| − | ==M==
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| − | ;<span id=Main_Page style="font-weight: bold">Main Page</span>
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| − | : The page to which every user not specifying an article is redirected. The [[Main Page]] contains links to current events, presents certain articles (like a [[#FA|featured article]] of the day and links to Wikipedia's newest articles), and also serves as an entry point to browsing all articles by topic or other classification. Links to sister projects and other-language Wikipedias are also a prominent feature on the Main Page. Due to its high exposure, all content on the Main Page is [[#Protected page|protected]].
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| − | ;<span id=Mediation style="font-weight: bold">Mediation</span>
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| − | : An attempt by a third party to resolve an edit war or other conflict between users. There exists a [[Wikipedia:Mediation Committee]] which can do so on a more or less official basis as the penultimate step in the [[Wikipedia:dispute resolution]] process.
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| − | : ''See also: [[Wikipedia:What is mediation?]]; [[Wikipedia:Mediation]].''
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| − | ;<span id=MediaWiki style="font-weight: bold">MediaWiki</span>
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| − | : The software behind Wikipedia and its sister projects, as well as several projects not related to Wikimedia, and a namespace.
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| − | : ''Compare with '''[[#Wikimedia|Wikimedia]]'''.''
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]], [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Merge style="font-weight: bold">Merge</span>
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| − | : Taking the text of two pages, and turning it into a single page.
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| − | ;<span id=Mergist style="font-weight: bold">Mergist</span>
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| − | : A user who adheres to the principle of [[m:Mergism|Mergism]], which is a compromise between the [[#Inclusionist|Inclusionist]] and [[#Deletionist|Deletionist]] principles. A Mergist is of the opinion that while many topics merit inclusion, not every topic deserves its own article, and tries to combine these "side" topics into longer, less specific articles.
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| − | ;<span id=Meta style="font-weight: bold">Meta</span>
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| − | : A separate [[wiki]] ([http://meta.wikipedia.org http://meta.wikipedia.org]) used to discuss general Wikipedia matters. In the past, this has been called ''Metapedia'', ''Meta Wikipedia'', ''Meta Wikimedia'', and many other combinations.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Meta|Meta]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Meta_page style="font-weight: bold">Meta page</span>
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| − | : Page that provides information about Wikipedia. Meta pages are more correctly referred to as [[Wikipedia:project namespace|project namespace]] pages. Meta pages should not be confused with a page on Meta-Wikimedia.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Meta page]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Mirror style="font-weight: bold">Mirror</span>
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| − | : A website other than Wikipedia that uses content original to Wikipedia as a source for at least some of its content.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Move="font-weight: bold">Move</span>
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| − | : 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.
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| − | : ''See also [[Help:Renaming (moving) a page]].''
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| − | {{compactTOC2}}
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| − | ==N==
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| − | ;<span id=Namespace style="font-weight: bold">n/a</span>
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| − | : An abbreviation for ''new article'', often used in edit summaries.
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Namespace style="font-weight: bold">Namespace</span>
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| − | : A way to classify pages. Wikipedia has namespaces for encyclopedia articles, pages about Wikipedia ([[Wikipedia:Project namespace|project namespace]]), [[#User_page|user pages]] (User:), special pages (Special:), [[#Template|template]] pages (Template:), and [[#Talk_page|talk pages]] (Talk:, Wikipedia talk:, and User talk:), among others.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Namespace]].''
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Newbie_test style="font-weight: bold">Newbie test</span>
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| − | : ''Also used: '''newb test''', '''noob test'''.''
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| − | : An edit made by a newcomer to Wikipedia, just to see if "Edit this page" ''really'' does what it sounds like. Newcomers should use [[Wikipedia:Sandbox]] for this purpose.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Clueless newbies]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Notice_board style="font-weight: bold">Notice board</span>
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| − | :''Also used: '''noticeboard'''.''
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| − | : A page which acts as a forum for a group of users, who use it to coordinate their editing. Most notice boards are by geographic location, like the [[WP:UKWNB|UK Wikipedians' notice board]]; a notable exception is the [[WP:AN|Administrators' noticeboard]].
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| − | ;<span id=NPOV style="font-weight: bold">NPOV</span>
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| − | : [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|Neutral point of view]], or the agreement to report subjective opinions objectively, so as not to cause edit wars between opposing sides. As a verb, to remove biased statements or slanted phrasing. As an adjective, it indicates that an article is in compliance with Wikipedia's NPOV policy.
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| − | ;<span id=Nupedia style="font-weight: bold">Nupedia</span>
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| − | : A Wikipedia predecessor project that shut down in 2003. It is currently inactive and there are no plans to resurrect it.
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| − | : ''See also: [[Wikipedia:Nupedia and Wikipedia]].''
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| − | ==O==
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| − | ;<span id=Open_tasks style="font-weight: bold">Open tasks</span>
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| − | : A [[#Template|template]] (found at {{tl|opentask}}) that lists several more or less janitorial things to do. It is found on the [[#Community Portal|community portal]] as well as on many [[#User page|user pages]].
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| − | ;<span id=Orphan style="font-weight: bold">Orphan</span>
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| − | : A page with no links from other pages. You can view lists of [[Special:Lonelypages|orphaned articles]] and [[Special:Unusedimages|images]].
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| − | :: ''See also [[Wikipedia:Orphan]].''
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| − | ==P==
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| − | ;<span id=Page style="font-weight: bold">Page</span>
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| − | : Any individual topic within Wikipedia; the [[web page]] without the top, bottom and side bars. Pages include articles, stubs, redirects, disambiguation pages, user pages, talk pages, documentation and [[Wikipedia:Special pages|special pages]].
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Patent_nonsense style="font-weight: bold">Patent nonsense</span>
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| − | :A humorous pejorative applied to articles that are either completely unintelligible or totally irrelevant. See [[Wikipedia:Patent nonsense]].
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| − | ;<span id=Peer_Review style="font-weight: bold">Peer Review</span>
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| − | :A request to have fellow wikipedians review and help improve an article. Wikipedia has a page specifically for posting such a request and offering up your work for review. See [[Wikipedia:Peer Review]].
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| − | ;<span id=Personal_attack style="font-weight: bold">Personal attack</span>
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| − | :A comment that is not directed at content, but insults or threatens another editor (or a group of editors) personally. To maintain a friendly and productive atmosphere, personal attacks are forbidden per Wikipedia [[#Policy|policy]] and may be grounds for [[#Block|blocking]] in serious and/or repeated cases.
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| − | : ''See also: [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks]], [[Wikipedia:Remove personal attacks]]''
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Phase_I style="font-weight: bold">Phase I</span>
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| − | : The [[wiki software]] [[UseModWiki]]. Wikipedia used this software prior to [[January 25]], [[2002]].
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| − | ;<span id=Phase_II style="font-weight: bold">Phase II</span>
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| − | : The wiki software written by [[User:Magnus Manske]] and adopted by Wikipedia after [[January 25]], [[2002]] ([[Magnus Manske Day]]).
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| − | ;<span id=Phase_III style="font-weight: bold">Phase III</span>
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| − | : A rewritten and improved version of the Phase II software. It was eventually renamed to [[MediaWiki]]. Wikipedia currently uses MediaWiki version 1.4
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]], [[m:MediaWiki]].''
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Phase_IV style="font-weight: bold">Phase IV</span>
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| − | : A dreamy proposal for the next generation of Wikipedia software made back when complete rewrites were in vogue. Development is now focused on incremental progress.
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| − | : ''See also [[m:Wikipedia4]].''
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Piped_link style="font-weight: bold">Piped link</span>
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| − | : A link where the displayed text is not the name of the target article. Such links are created using the ''pipe character'' "|" e.g. <nowiki>[[Target article|Displayed text]]</nowiki>. The '''pipe trick''' is a software feature that generates the displayed text for you in certain circumstances.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Piped link]].''
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Pokémon_test style="font-weight: bold">Pokémon test</span>
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| − | : 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.
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| − | ;<span id=POV style="font-weight: bold">POV</span>
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| − | : [[Wikipedia:Point of view|Point of view]]. Often used negatively as an [[adjective]] to indicate [[bias]], as in "That reply was POV, not neutral.".
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=POV_warrior style="font-weight: bold">POV warrior</span>
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| − | : A wiki editor who aggressively distorts coverage of certain topics to suit his/her biases despite community norms of neutrality. An affliction that especially infests Wikipedia.
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Project_namespace style="font-weight: bold">Project namespace</span>
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| − | : The [[Wikipedia:project namespace|project namespace]] is a [[Wikipedia:namespace|namespace]] dedicated to providing information about wikipedia.
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Protected_page style="font-weight: bold">Protected page</span>
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| − | : A page that cannot be edited except by sysops. Usually this is done to cool down an edit war.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:This page is protected]].''
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| − | ;<span id=The_Pump style="font-weight: bold">The Pump</span>
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| − | : ''Also used: '''VP'''.''
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| − | : A nickname for [[Wikipedia:Village pump]].
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| − | ==Q==
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| − | ;<span id=Quarto style="font-weight: bold">Quarto</span>
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| − | :'''Wikimedia Quarto''' is a multilingual quarterly newsletter published by the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. It can be read online [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Quarto here].
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| − | ;<span id=Quickpoll style="font-weight: bold">Quickpoll</span>
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| − | : A poll among Wikipedia regulars on issues that need to be quickly resolved, such as the banning of problematic users. Also used as verb: ''to quickpoll'', meaning ''to hold a quickpoll''. Considered obsolete.
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| − | ==R==
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| − | ;<span id=Rambot style="font-weight: bold">Rambot</span>
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| − | : A controversial [[#Bot|bot]] written by [[User:Ram-Man]] and used to enter [[United States]] geographical data for tens of thousands of cities, notable and otherwise.
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| − | : ''See also [[User talk:Rambot]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Random page style="font-weight: bold">Random page</span>
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| − | : The Random page link is on the left of each page for most [[Wikipedia:skin|skins]]. It will take you to a Wikipedia article that is chosen by a computer algorithm without any deliberate pattern or meaning to the choice.
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| − | ;<span id=RC style="font-weight: bold">RC</span>
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| − | :An abbreviation for [[#Recent changes|Recent changes]]
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| − | ;<span id=Re-creation style="font-weight: bold">Re-creation</span>
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| − | : A posting either of the same text of a deleted article by a new user, or of the same text or different text of a deleted article by the original creator.
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| − | ;<span id=Recent_changes style="font-weight: bold">Recent changes</span>
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| − | :A dynamically generated page (found at [[Special:Recentchanges]]) that lists all edits in descending chronological order. Recent changes are checked regularly by editors doing '''RC patrol''', which means checking all suspicious edits to catch [[#Vandalism|vandalism]] as early as possible. Another way of watching recent changes is the [irc://browne.wikimedia.org/#en.wikipedia Recentchanges IRC channel], which announces changes in realtime.
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| − | ;<span id=Redirect style="font-weight: bold">Redirect</span>
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| − | : ''Also used: '''redir'''.''
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| − | : A page title which, when requested, merely sends the reader to another page. This is used for synonyms and ease of linking. For example, ''[[impressionist]]'' might redirect to ''[[impressionism]]''.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Redirect]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Red_link style="font-weight: bold">Red link</span>
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| − | : ''See '''[[#Broken link|Broken link]]'''.''
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| − | ;<span id=Refactor style="font-weight: bold">Refactor</span>
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| − | : The act of restructuring a document, usually applied to the ordering and summarizing of [[#Talk page|talk pages]].
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| − | :''See also: [[Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages]]''
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id="Reincarnation" style="font-weight: bold">Reincarnation</span>
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| − | :A new user account created by a [[#Ban|banned]] user.
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| − | ;<span id=Revert style="font-weight: bold">Revert</span>
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| − | : An edit that reverses changes made by someone else.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Revert]]''
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Revert war style="font-weight: bold">Revert war</span>
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| − | : ''See '''[[#Edit war|Edit war]]'''.''
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| − | ;<span id=RfA style="font-weight: bold">RfA</span>
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| − | : Can mean [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship|request for adminship]] or [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration|request for arbitration]], depending on the context. The latter is frequently abbreviated '''''RfAr''''' to avoid the ambiguity.
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| − | ;<span id=RfC style="font-weight: bold">RfC</span>
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| − | : Request for comment, part of the [[Wikipedia:Dispute resolution|dispute resolution]] process. A request for comment is an informal process for soliciting input from Wikipedians about a question of article content or a user's conduct.
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| − | : ''See also: [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment]].''
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| − | ;<span id=RfD style="font-weight: bold">RfD</span>
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| − | : The [[Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion]] page.
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| − | ;<span id=RfM style="font-weight: bold">RfM</span>
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| − | : Request for [[Wikipedia:Glossary#mediation|mediation]], part of the [[Wikipedia:Dispute resolution|dispute resolution]] process.
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| − | : ''See also: [[Wikipedia:Requests for mediation]].''
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| − | ;<span id=rm style="font-weight: bold">rm</span>
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| − | : Remove. Used in edit summaries to indicate that a particular piece of text or formatting has been deleted.
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| − | ;<span id=Rollback style="font-weight: bold">Rollback</span>
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| − | : To change a page back to the version before the last edit. Sysops have special possibilities to do this more easily.
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| − | ;<span id=rv style="font-weight: bold">rv</span>
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| − | : Revert. An edit summary indicating that the page has been reverted to a previous version, often because of [[Wikipedia:vandalism|vandalism]].
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version]].''
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| − | ==S==
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=s/word1/word2/ style="font-weight: bold">s/word1/word2/</span>
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| − | : Replace ''word1'' with ''word2''. Used in edit summaries. It is a reference to the command for "find and replace" in languages such as [[sed]] and [[Perl]]. '''s/word1/word2/g''' means "replace ''all occurrences'' of ''word1'' with ''word2''" (''g'' stands for "global").
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| − | ;<span id=Sandbox style="font-weight: bold">Sandbox</span>
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| − | : A [[sandbox]] is a page that users may edit however they want. Though it is meant to help users experiment and gain familiarity with [[#Wiki markup|Wiki markup]], the public sandbox at [[Wikipedia:Sandbox]] is often filled with [[Wikipedia:Sandbox In-sand-ity|strange things]] and [[Wikipedia:patent nonsense|patent nonsense]]. In addition to the public sandbox, users may create private sandboxes on [[Wikipedia:subpages|subpages]] of their [[Wikipedia:user page|user page]], e.g. [[User:Hephaestos/Sandbox]].
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Section_editing style="font-weight: bold">Section editing</span>
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| − | : Using one of the '[edit]' links to the right of each section's title, one can get an edit window containing only the section of the page that's ''below'' the [edit] link. This makes it (hopefully) easier to find the exact spot where one wants to edit, and helps you avoiding an [[#Edit conflict|edit conflict]]. You can turn section editing off in your [[Special:preferences|preferences]] under the "Enable section editing via [edit] links" option.
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| − | ;<span id=Self-link style="font-weight: bold">Self-link</span>
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| − | : A Wikilink contained in an article that points the reader to that same article, e.g. linking ''[[Vice President]]'' in the article "[[Vice President]]". Such links are automatically displayed as '''strongly emphasised text''' rather than links, but the more complex case of a link which ''redirects'' to the same article is not, and should be de-[[#Wikify|wikified]].
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| − | ;<span id=Skin style="font-weight: bold">Skin</span>
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| − | : The appearance theme in [[Special:Preferences]]. Currently, five are available: Standard, Nostalgia, Cologne Blue, Monobook, and MySkin.
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Sock_puppet style="font-weight: bold">Sock puppet</span>
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| − | : Another user account created secretly by an existing wikipedian, generally to manufacture the illusion of support in a vote or argument. Also, particularly on [[#VfD|VfD]], a friend of an existing Wikipedian who has created an account solely for the purpose of supporting that wikipedian in a vote. It is not always possible to tell the difference.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Sock puppet]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Soft_redirect style="font-weight: bold">Soft redirect</span>
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| − | : 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)
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Soft redirect]]''.
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| − | ;<span id=sp style="font-weight: bold">sp</span>
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| − | : Short for ''spelling correction''. Used in [[Wikipedia:Edit summary|edit summaries]].
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Speedy_delete style="font-weight: bold">Speedy delete</span>
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| − | : Deletion of a page without prior discussion. Pages can be speedily deleted only under very specific circumstances, see [[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion]] for those.
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Split style="font-weight: bold">Split</span>
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| − | : Separating a single page into two or more pages.
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Steward style="font-weight: bold">Steward</span>
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| − | : An [[#Administrator|Administrator]] who has been empowered to change any user's status, including granting and revoking Administrator status and granting [[#Bureaucrat|bureaucrat]] status.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Administrators#Stewards]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Stub style="font-weight: bold">Stub</span>
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| − | : An article usually consisting of one short paragraph or less.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub]].''
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Strike_out style="font-weight: bold">Strike out</span>
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| − | : Placement of text in strikethrough (HTML <s></s>) tags. This is very rarely used in articles, but is relatively common in votes and discussions when a contributor changes his opinion. As not to cause confusion, the outdated comments are stricken out (<s>like this</s>).
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| − | ;<span id=Sub-stub style="font-weight: bold">Sub-stub</span>
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| − | : A very short [[#Stub|stub]]. For example, an article that is no more than a simple definition ("An airplane is a type of winged flying vehicle"). The practice of tagging short articles as substubs has been deprecated - tag them as stubs instead.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Substub]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Subpage style="font-weight: bold">Subpage</span>
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| − | : A page connected to a parent page. You can only create subpages in certain namespaces. Do not use subpages in the main article space.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Subpages]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Sysop style="font-weight: bold">Sysop</span>
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| − | : ''See '''[[#Admin|Admin]]'''.''
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| − | {{compactTOC2}}
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| − | ==T==
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| − | ;<span id=Talk_page style="font-weight: bold">Talk page</span>
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| − | : A page reserved for discussion. All pages within Wikipedia (except talk pages themselves!) have talk pages attached to them.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Talk page]].''
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Taxobox style="font-weight: bold">Taxobox</span>
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| − | : A type of [[#Infobox|infobox]], a taxobox is a [[taxonomy]] table positioned at the right side of an entry for a species of organism (or for a [[genus]] or [[family]]), giving a chart of the [[Kingdom (biology)|kingdom]], [[phylum]], etc. of the creature. Taxoboxes are also used for similar standardised tables.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Taxobox]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Template style="font-weight: bold">Template</span>
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| − | : A way of automatically including the contents of one page within another page, used for '''[[#Boilerplate text|boilerplate text]]''', navigational aids, etc.
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| − | : ''See also: [[Wikipedia:Template namespace]].''
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=TfD style="font-weight: bold">TfD</span>
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| − | : The [[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion]] page.
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| − | ;<span id=Transclusion style="font-weight: bold">Transclusion</span>
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| − | :There are two main ways of using templates on articles: inclusion (accomplished by using <code><nowiki>{{Template Name}}</nowiki></code>), and transclusion (<code><nowiki>{{subst:Template Name}}</nowiki></code>). The former will include the content of ''Template Name'' on the fly whenever the article is loaded, while the latter will permanently insert the content of the template onto the article. Thus, using transclusion, if the template content is modified at a later date, the article's content will ''not'' change.
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| − | :Transclusion is the preferred method for short-term, non-permanent notices, as it is less confusing, and even helps to lighten the load on the database.
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=Translation style="font-weight: bold">Translation</span>
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| − | : The English-language Wikipedia should have only pages in English. Non-English pages are subject to deletion unless translated.
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| − | : ''See also: [[Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English]] for pages on the English Wikipedia that are written in a foreign language; [[Wikipedia:Translation into English]] for requests for translations into English of pages from foreign-language Wikipedias.''
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| − | ;<span id=Transwiki style="font-weight: bold">Transwiki</span>
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| − | : Move a page to another wiki, in particular [[Wiktionary]], [[Wikibooks]], [[Wikisource]] or [http://sep11.wikipedia.org sep11].
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| − | : ''See also [[m:Transwiki]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Troll style="font-weight: bold">Troll</span>
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| − | : A user who incites or engages in disruptive behavior ('''[[internet troll|trolling]]'''). There are some people who just enjoy causing conflict, and there are those who make a hobby of it. However, these are few in number. Calling someone a troll in a dispute is a bad idea; it has an effect similar to [[Godwin's law|calling someone a Nazi]] – no further meaningful debate can be held.
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| − | : ''Compare with '''[[#Cabal|Cabal]]'''.''
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| − | : ''See also [[polarization (psychology)|polarization]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Tyop style="font-weight: bold">Tyop</span>
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| − | : A cute misspelling of [[typo]]. Used as an edit summary when correcting typos.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:typo]].''
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| − | ==U==
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| − | ;<span id=Unencyclopedic style="font-weight: bold">Unencyclopedic</span>
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| − | : What should not be in Wikipedia; the term is highly debated and sometimes considered useless or tautological.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Unencyclopedic]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Un-wiki style="font-weight: bold">Un-wiki</span>
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| − | : Going against the character of a [[Wiki]]. Usually saying that something is un-wiki means that it makes editing more difficult or impossible.
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| − | ;<span id=UseMod style="font-weight: bold">UseMod</span>
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| − | : ''See [[UseModWiki]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Userfy style="font-weight: bold">Userfy</span>
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| − | : To turn a page in the article namespace into a user page or [[#Subpage|subpage]].
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| − |
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| − | ;<span id=User_page style="font-weight: bold">User page</span>
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| − | : A personal page for [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedians]]. Most people use their pages to introduce themselves and to keep various personal notes and lists. They are also used by Wikipedians to communicate with each other via the user talk pages. A user page is linked to as <nowiki>[[User:Hephaestos|Hephaestos]]</nowiki> and appears as [[User:Hephaestos|Hephaestos]].
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:User page]].''
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| − | ;<span id=umbrella_nomination style="font-weight: bold">umbrella nomination</span>
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| − | : A nomination (e.g. on [[WP:CfD|CfD]]) that contains several items (e.g. categories) which normally are nominated individually.
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| − | ==V==
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| − | ;<span id=Vandalbot style="font-weight: bold">Vandalbot</span>
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| − | : Some kind of [[#bot|bot]] being used for vandalism or spamming. Recognizable by the fact that one or a few IP-addresses make many similar clearly vandalist edits in a short time. In the worst cases these have created or vandalized hundreds of pages in several Wikipedias in a timespan of only minutes.
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| − | : ''See also [[m:Vandalbot]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Vandalism style="font-weight: bold">Vandalism</span>
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| − | : Deliberate defacement of Wikipedia pages. This can be by deleting text or writing nonsense, bad language etcetera. The term is often incorrectly used to discredit the views of an opponent in edit wars. Vandalism can be reported at [[Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress]].
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| − | : ''See also [[m:Wikipedia vandalism]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Vanity_page style="font-weight: bold">Vanity page</span>
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| − | : A page in the article [[Wikipedia:Namespace|namespace]] that presents biographical details of a non-famous person favorably and is considered inappropriate and/or [[Wikipedia:Unencyclopedic|unencyclopedic]] by most Wikipedians. Such articles are often suspected to be written by their subjects.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a vanity press]].''
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| − | ;<span id=VfD style="font-weight: bold">VfD</span>
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| − | : The [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]] page.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion phrases]] for explanation of some terms used on VfD.''
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| − | ;<span id=VfU style="font-weight: bold">VfU</span>
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| − | : The [[Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion]] page.
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| − | ;<span id=Village_pump style="font-weight: bold">Village pump</span>
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| − | : The main community forum of Wikipedia (found at [[Wikipedia:Village pump]]), where proposals, policy changes, technical problems and other internals are announced and discussed in front of a wider audience than a topic-specific page would have.
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| − | ;<span id=VP style="font-weight: bold">VP</span>
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| − | : Shorthand for [[#Village pump|Village pump]].
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| − | ==W==
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| − | ;<span id=Watchlist style="font-weight: bold">Watchlist</span>
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| − | : A set of pages selected by the user, who can then click on [[Special:Watchlist|My watchlist]] to see recent changes to those pages.
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| − | : ''See also: [[meta:Help:Watching pages|Help:Watching pages]]''.
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| − | ;<span id=Wikibooks style="font-weight: bold">Wikibooks</span>
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| − | : A Wikipedia sister project that works to develop free textbooks, manuals, and other texts online.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikibooks]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Wikibreak style="font-weight: bold">Wikibreak</span>
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| − | : ''Also used: '''Wikivacation'''.''
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| − | : When a [[Wikipedia:Wikipedian|Wikipedian]] takes a break from [[Wikipedia]].
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| − | : ''See also [[m:Wikibreak]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Wikify style="font-weight: bold">Wikify</span>
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| − | : To format using '''[[#Wiki_markup|Wiki markup]]''' (as opposed to plain text or [[HTML]]) and add internal links to material, incorporating it into the whole of Wikipedia. Noun: '''Wikification'''. Sometimes abbreviated '''wfy'''.
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| − | : ''See also [[:Category:Articles that need to be wikified]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Wikilink style="font-weight: bold">Wikilink</span>
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| − | : A link to another Wikipedia page, as opposed to an '''[[#External link|external link]]'''. See [[Wikipedia:Canonicalization]].
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| − | ;<span id=Wiki_markup style="font-weight: bold">Wiki markup</span>
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| − | : ''Also used: '''wiki text''', '''wikitext'''.''
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| − | : Code like HTML, but simplified and more convenient, for example <nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki> instead of <nowiki><b>bold</b></nowiki>. It is the source code stored in the database and shown in the edit box. [[Wikipedia:Searching|Searching]] by the Wikipedia software is done in the wikitext, as opposed to searching by Google, which is done in the resulting text. The size of a page is the size of the wikitext.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Wikimedia style="font-weight: bold">Wikimedia</span>
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| − | : Properly '''Wikimedia Foundation Inc.''', a non-profit organisation that provides a legal, financial and organisational framework for Wikipedia and its sister projects and provides the necessary hardware.
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| − | : ''Compare with '''[[#MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]'''.''
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikimedia]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Wikipedian style="font-weight: bold">Wikipedian</span>
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| − | : ''Also used: '''Wikipedist''', '''Wikipede'''.''
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| − | : A contributor to Wikipedia.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians]].''
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| − | ;<span id=WikiProject style="font-weight: bold">WikiProject</span>
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| − | : An attempt to standardise the content and formatting of a particular category of articles using an agreed template.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:WikiProject]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Wikiquette style="font-weight: bold">Wikiquette</span>
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| − | : The Wikipedia etiquette of working with others on Wikipedia.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikipedia:Wikiquette]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Wikiquote style="font-weight: bold">Wikiquote</span>
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| − | :A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online collection of quotations.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikiquote]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Wikisource style="font-weight: bold">Wikisource</span>
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| − | : A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online compendium of primary source texts.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wikisource]].''
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| − | ;<span id=Wikispam style="font-weight: bold">Wikispam</span>
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| − | : Articles with advertorial content.
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| − | ;<span id=Wikistress style="font-weight: bold">Wikistress</span>
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| − | : 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 [[Template_talk:Wstress3d|Wikistress template]].
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| − | ;<span id=Wiktionary style="font-weight: bold">Wiktionary</span>
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| − | : A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online dictionary of every language.
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| − | : ''See also [[Wiktionary]].''
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| − | ;<span id=WMF style="font-weight: bold">WMF</span>
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| − | : ''See [[Wikimedia Foundation]].''
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| − | ;<span id=WP style="font-weight: bold">WP</span>
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| − | : Common abbreviation for [[Wikipedia]], especially for pages in the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:namespace|namespace]]. See [[Wikipedia:Namespace#Pseudo namespaces]] and [[Wikipedia:WP]].
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| − | ==?==
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| − | ;<span id=en style="font-weight: bold">en: / de: / ja: / etc.</span>
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| − | : The English / German / Japanese / etc.-language Wikipedia. Often used in ''edit summaries'' to indicate changes to [[#Interwiki|interwiki]] links. For a full list of codes, see [[ISO 639]]. For a full list of Wikipedias, see [[m:Complete list of language Wikipedias available]].
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