OR

en-noun

OR (countable and uncountable, plural ORs)

(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of original research.


Wiktionarian

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-ɪkʃənɛəɹiən

Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wikiblend.
Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti
Proto-Italic *deikō
Latin dīcō
Proto-Indo-European *-tisder.
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Latin -tiō
Latin dictiō
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āsios
Latin -ārium
Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor.
Middle English dixionare
English dictionaryblend.
English Wiktionary
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Wiktionarian
From Wiktionary + -ian.

etymon

An outside project called Omegawiki, started by a handful of Wiktionarians, is working on a grand combination of data from Wiktionary into a single dictionary for all languages.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, No Starch Press, page 430:

Wiktionary contributors are called Wiktionarians.

2012, Sylviane Granger, Magali Paquot, editors, Electronic Lexicography, Oxford University Press, page 271:

Wiktionary is compiled through a collaborative process by a large community of Web users, in this context called Wiktionarians.

2013, Robert Lew, “User-generated content (UGC) in online English dictionaries”, in OPAL - Online publizierte Arbeiten zur Linguistik, number § 5.1:

(Wikimedia jargon) A person who contributes to Wiktionary, especially a regular contributor well versed in the ways of the site.


Wikipedian

From Wikipedia + -ian (compare encyclopedist).

That is because Wikipedians, as they call themselves, can not only contribute whatever they want but can also edit entries posted by other writers as they see fit.

2001 September 20, Peter Meyers, “Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Britannica, somewhat representative of old media in general, instinctively regards Wikipedia as a threat, whereas Wikipedians are not the least bit tempted to reciprocate.

This change takes care of casual or heat-of-the-moment vandalism, but it does little to address a new category of Wikipedian somewhere between committed community member and momentarily vandalizing teenager, one that creates tougher problems.

2008, Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It, page 139:

(Wikimedia jargon) A person who contributes to Wikipedia, especially a regular contributor well versed in the ways of the website.

وِيكِيبِيدِيّ

a person who uses, edits, or contributes to Wikipedia


ping

Partly onomatopoeic, and partly continuing Middle English pingen (“to push, shove, pierce, stab, prod, goad, urge, feel remorse, incite”), from Old English pyngan (“to prick”), in turn likely from pungere. Compare English pang.


IP

en-noun

IP (countable and uncountable, plural IPs)

This IP made a disruptive edit!

en:unregistered user identified by their IP address

(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon, metonymic) An unregistered user identified by their IP address.

wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon; wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon


sysop

(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) An administrator on a wiki.


FA

FA (countable and uncountable, plural FAs)

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of featured article.


WikiProject

WikiProjects (plural)
Wikiproject (alternative)

Compound of wiki + project. Coined before 26 September 2001 (see quotations) by Wikipedian Manning Bartlett, creator of the concept earlier that month.

This is the WikiProject page for SPORTS

2001 September 26, Manning Bartlett, “basic framework - lots more work needed”, in Wikipedia:

Through Wikiproject Medicine, some medical professionals (and other health-savvy Wikipedia editors) have taken it upon themselves to improve the quality of medical information available on the site.

2013 October 1, Julie Beck, “Should I Be Getting Health Information From Wikipedia?”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

Wikipedia is made up of thousands of WikiProjects—groups of editors who work together to tackle articles on similar topics—but not all of them offer the same level of training that [Susan] Gerbic does.

2018 July 25, “The ’Guerrilla’ Wikipedia Editors Who Combat Conspiracy Theories”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-29:

A WikiProject, among other things, includes a page of reliable sources for editors to pull from.

2020 August 7, Travis M. Andrews, “Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia’s biggest challenges ever. Here’s how the site is handling it.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-17:

Some pages can be "locked" and cannot be changed until one of more than 200 volunteer editors on WikiProject Covid-19, many of whom are doctors or academics, review it.

2020 October 22, Donald G[erard] McNeil Jr., “Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join to Combat Covid-19 Misinformation”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-11:

(Wikimedia jargon) A group of editors who work together on improving the coverage of a particular topic on a wiki, especially on Wikipedia.


NPOV

Near-synonyms: point-of-viewlessness; eticness

The NPOV is self-consciously a view, not the absence of all views.

2007, Juha Suoranta, Tere Vadén, “From Social to Socialist Media: The Critical Potential of the Wikiworld”, in Peter McLaren, Joe L. Kincheloe, editors, Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Now?, Peter Lang, section 147:

Similarly, it is also important to understand the fundamental operation of NPOV in full detail: contrary to the synthesis commonly required for the coverage of topics in conventional encyclopedias, NPOV does not require the establishment of a universally accepted consensus description of the topic at hand—a kind of graveyard peace between opposing factions, achieved through arrival at a compromise which satisfies no one and omits any controversial points not acceptable to one of the participants.

2008, Axel Bruns, Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage, Peter Lang, section 120:

Content creators and editors are encouraged to filter material through a sieve of strict standards known to insiders as NPOV, NOR, RS, and V.

2015, June Jamrich Parsons, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts 2016, Comprehensive, 18th edition, Cengage Learning, section 332:

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of neutral point of view - the guideline of all Wikipedia and Wiktionary articles.


oversight

en-verb

oversight (third-person singular simple present oversights, present participle oversighting, simple past and past participle oversighted)

oversights (present singular third-person)
oversighting (participle present)
oversighted (participle past)
oversighted (past)

/ˈəʊvəˌsaɪt/

From over- + sight. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Aufsicht.

sl

(Internet, transitive, Wikimedia jargon) To suppress content in a way that removes or minimizes its visibility or viewability.


copyvio

en-noun

copyvio (countable and uncountable, plural copyvios)

My suggestion is to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations to see our mechanism that deals with copyvios.

2005 January 3, ta bu shi da yu, “Re: Wikipedia - Check pages for copied articles”, in misc.transport.road (Usenet):

These are the edits made to this article before the deletion of versions that included copyvio.

2005 June 24, “TheoClarke” (username), in “Gun Quarter, Birmingham/Deleted history”, Wikipedia, quoted in Deleting: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases, ICON Group International (2008), page 44

Despite gazillions of copyvios, there are still valid and legitimate groups there which are not harmed in the least by this.

2007 February 1, cpghost, “Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server”, in list.freebsd.questions (Usenet):

2009 June 19, Jon Dowland <[email removed]>, “new freedoom packages for stable and oldstable to fix copyvio”, in linux.debian.devel.release (Usenet):

copyright infringement
copyright infringement

(wiki jargon, originally Wikimedia jargon) A violation of copyright laws: copyright infringement.


WP

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Wikipedia.


speedy

en-verb

speedy (third-person singular simple present speedies, present participle speedying, simple past and past participle speedied)

speedies (present singular third-person)
speedying (participle present)
speedied (participle past)
speedied (past)

From Middle English spedy, spedi, from Old English spēdiġ (“having good speed, lucky, prosperous; having means, wealthy, opulent, rich in material wealth; rich in, abounding in, abundant, plenteous, copious; powerful”), from Proto-Germanic *spōdigaz (“successful, hurried”), equivalent to speed + -y. Cognate with Scots spedie (“speedy”), Dutch spoedig (“speedy, swift, rapid, quick”), German sputig, spudig (“industrious, speedy”).

cog

The guy is *not* so obviously insignificant that speedying him is appropriate.

(transitive, Wikimedia jargon) To apply the speedy rule in an online community (often the deletion rule); to speedy delete.


MW

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of MediaWiki.


deletionist

en-adj

deletionist (comparative more deletionist, superlative most deletionist)

more deletionist (comparative)
most deletionist (superlative)

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In the deletionists’ corner sits the strong sense that the more topics of debatable value are included (they cite such entries as side characters from the Pokémon cartoon or the Heroes TV series as examples), the more dependents will see Wikipedia as a source of fun rather than knowledge. They are worried that the brand is at risk of losing its value. In a deletionist world, Wikipedia would exert more control over what it publishes. […]

2009, Emmanuel Gobillot, Leadershift: Reinventing Leadership for the Age of Mass Collaboration, Kogan Page, published 2011, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 89:

(Wikimedia jargon) Preferring to delete material.


deletionist

The two groups had been vying for control from early on in the site's life, but the numbers suggest that the deletionists may have won. The increasing difficulty of making a successful edit; the exclusion of casual users; slower growth – all are hallmarks of the deletionist approach.

2009 August 12, Bobbie Johnson, “Wikipedia approaches its limits”, in The Guardian:

(Wikimedia jargon) A user with deletionist sentiments.


AWB

(wiki jargon, Wikimedia jargon) AutoWikiBrowser.


inclusionist

inclusionist (comparative more inclusionist, superlative most inclusionist)

more inclusionist (comparative)
most inclusionist (superlative)

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Regardless, the inclusionist view that all processes are supposed to operate case by case rather than determining whether broad topic areas should be included continues to prevail, though this view is subject to great debate, especially in areas of popular culture.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, page 350:

Recent controversies between the so-called “deletionist” and “inclusionist” Wikipedians, as well as the brief brouhaha around the introduction of flagged and patrolled edits, commplicate Anderson's model a bit, of course, but the focus remains on the evaluation of content rather than contributors.

2011, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy:

If the deletionist philosophy prevails, as I suspect it will, the inclusionist Wikipedia will be lost forever.

2016, Nicholas Carr, Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations:

(Wikimedia jargon) Favoring the inclusion of articles rather than their deletion.


inclusionist

But the proliferation of rules, and the fact that select Wikipedians have learnt how to handle them to win arguments, now represents a danger, says Andrew Lih, a former deletionist who is now an inclusionist, and who is writing a book about Wikipedia.

In September 2007, Jimbo Wales, Wikipedia's panjandrum — himself an inclusionist who believes that if people want an article about every Pokemon character, then hey, let it happen — posted a one-sentence stub about Mzoli's […]

2012, Nicholson Baker, The Way the World Works, page 204:

The deepest philosophical divide among Wikipedians is between the inclusionists (editors believing that Wikipedia, as a digital resource, should not be limited by traditional encyclopedia constraints and should cover as wide an array of topics as possible) and the exclusionists (editors believing that Wikipedia should apply criteria about the notability of described phenomena as strictly as any other encyclopedia and that the virtue of sensible exclusion increases the project's quality).

2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, page 23:

(Wikimedia jargon) A wiki user who favors the inclusion of articles rather than their deletion.


WMF

“WMF has operated in the past without staffing and with very minimal staffing, so clearly it’s _possible_^([sic]) to host a high traffic website on an absolute shoestring,” acknowledged the Foundation’s then VP of engineering, Erik Möller, in 2013.

2022 October 12, Andrew Orlowski, “The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it”, in UnHerd:

Wikimedia Foundation
w:Wikimedia Foundation

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Wikimedia Foundation.


wikification

en-noun

wikification (usually uncountable, plural wikifications)

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Given a text or hypertext document, we define “text wikification” as the task of automatically extracting the most important words and phrases in the document (keywords), and identifying for each such keyword the appropriate link to a Wikipedia article with detailed explanatory information about the corresponding keyphrase. ¶ Text wikification is performed in two steps. […]

2007, Andras Csomai, Rada Mihalcea, “Linking Educational Materials to Encyclopedic Knowledge”, in Rosemary Luckin et al., editors, Artificial Intelligence in Education, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 558:

This task will introduce the process of “wikification”; that is, automatically and judiciously augmenting a plain-text document with pertinent hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles – as though the document were itself a Wikipedia article. […] Wikification is a useful process in itself, […]

2009, Ian H. Witten, abstract of the presentation “Semantic Document Processing Using Wikipedia as a Knowledge Base”, in Shlomo Geva et al. (editors), Focused Retrieval and Evaluation (INEX 2009 workshop proceedings), Springer (2010), page 3

3 Query Wikification
The process of automatically recognizing the topics mentioned in an unstructured text and linking them to the appropriate Wikipedia [6] articles is known as wikification. Two Wikification method[s] have been proposed by now.

2009–10, Amir Hossein Jadidinejad, Fariborz Mahmoudi, Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Meta-language Index Construction and Structural Queries, in Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I, page 73

(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) The automated process of adding links to Wikipedia (or another wiki) to specific words and phrases in an arbitrary text (e.g. a news article).


desysop

en-verb

desysop (third-person singular simple present desysops, present participle desysopping, simple past and past participle desysopped)

desysops (present singular third-person)
desysopping (participle present)
desysopped (participle past)
desysopped (past)

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William M. Connolley desysopped

2010 July 6, Eric Stevens (quoting Wikipedia Arbitration Committee), “Re: Wikipedia Accuracy”, in soc.history.ancient (Usenet):

i'll admit that i am flypaper for abusive admins. it's because i simply don't take shit from them. some of these abusive admins were eventually desysopped […]

2010 December 6, robert bristow-johnson, “boy, is *this* OT. but i'm game. (was Re: Imbecility)”, in comp.dsp (Usenet):

Eventually he'll be desysopped for good, and that will be a wonderful day for reason and honesty on the Internet.

2011 August 5, Ding Dong [username], “Re: All My Details”, in uk.legal (Usenet):

(transitive, wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) To revoke the sysop (administrator) privileges of.


edit war

As with dinner-table discussions, it is best to avoid editing articles about politics or religion unless one wishes to become entrenched in a perpetual edit war.

An unproductive edit war results as editors change the page back and forth between two incompatible versions, without troubling to engage in discussions.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 388:

In 2008, doubters of the official account of the attacks — sometimes called truthers — were told by the arbitration committee not to edit the main page on the attacks after so-called edit wars over what should be included there.

2011 September 12, Noam Cohen, “On Wikipedia, Echoes of 9/11 ‘Edit Wars’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Edit wars—about everything from Roseanne Barr to the Minneapolis suburb of Edina to the Death Star’s size to whether tigers are in fact “the most powerful living cat”—have been part of Wikipedia since its beginning.

2018 August 7, Alexis C. Madrigal, “Wikipedia, the Last Bastion of Shared Reality”, in The Atlantic:

(Wikimedia jargon) A dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work where opposing editors continually change the page without discussion.

حَرْب اَلتَّحْرِير

a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work


edit war

edit war (third-person singular simple present edit wars, present participle edit warring, simple past and past participle edit warred)

edit wars (present singular third-person)
edit warring (participle present)
edit warred (participle past)
edit warred (past)
edit-war (alternative)

When a dispute arises, it is common to see a page protected to avoid edit warring.

(Wikimedia jargon) To engage in an edit war.


deletionism

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(Wikimedia jargon) The condition of being deletionist.


inclusionism

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Apart from writing encyclopedia pages, The Cunctator loved to discuss Wikipedia and its policies. He spoke for anarchy (or at least an absence of hierarchy), eventualism (Wikipedia will get there in the end; his pseudonym means 'the delayer') and inclusionism (the wikiphilosophy whose motto could be 'let there be more articles').

2009, Andrew Dalby, The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality, Draycott, Somerset: Siduri Books, →ISBN, page 121:

(Wikimedia jargon) A wikiphilosophy which advocates allowing a broader range of information to be included on Wikipedia (or a similar wiki), even if it is of marginal importance.


indef

indefs (plural)
indef. (alternative abbreviation)

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An indef seems the only way to stem the flow of disruption from this user.

(Wikimedia jargon, Internet slang) The action of blocking or banning a user, account, or IP address from editing or other actions for an indefinite length of time.


indef

indef (third-person singular simple present indefs, present participle indeffing, simple past and past participle indeffed)

indefs (present singular third-person)
indeffing (participle present)
indeffed (participle past)
indeffed (past)
indef. (alternative abbreviation)

I indeffed the editor based on the legal threat.

(Wikimedia jargon, Internet slang) To block or ban a user, account, or IP address from editing or other actions for an indefinite length of time.


LTA

en-noun

LTA (countable and uncountable, plural LTAs)

long-term abuse
w:Wikipedia:Long-term abuse

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of long-term abuse.


barnstar

barnstars (plural)
barn star (alternative)
barn-star (alternative)

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There are many different Wikipedia barnstars that connote different things.

2008, Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It, page 290:

(Wikimedia jargon) An image posted on a wiki user's personal page by another user, as an informal award or form of recognition.


fancruft

Fancruft (sometimes shortened to just cruft) is a derogatory term for these types of articles, which are sometimes just barely tolerated.

[2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 225:

This contrast shows how dedicated Star Wars fans use the niche Wookieepedia to create and value content with a vast amount of detail and precision, even if the same content is viewed as fancruft within the more general Wikipedia community.

2012, Jason Mittell, “Wikis and Participatory Fandom”, in Aaron Delwiche, Jennifer Jacobs Henderson, editors, The Participatory Cultures Handbook, Routledge, →ISBN, page 39:

Editors are the folks who detect and remove original research and fancruft.

2014, Michael Restivo, Why Wiki Works: Peer Production and Making Knowledge the Wiki Way (dissertation), Stony Brook University, page 1:

Although the term ["cruft"] is almost always intended negatively, it is also associated with a certain obsessive attraction, most obviously in the case of "fancruft," those excessively detailed wiki entries about extremely minor elements of some niche subculture.

2017, David Letzler, The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 5:

(Wikimedia jargon, derogatory) Trivial or excessively detailed information on a work of fiction added by fans to a general-interest wiki.


QID

The Wikidata Q prefix is from Uzbek Qamarniso.

Inside the bot-friendly world of Wikidata, every concept and thing is represented with a numeric code dubbed a QID.

[2019 February 18, Tom Simonite, “Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata”, in Wired, →ISSN:

Within the Unicode consortium, a discussion has been started to use the Wikidata numbering system (“QID”) to create a system of emoji encoding that lies outside core Unicode regulation […]

2019 September, Christian Lieske, Felix Sasaki, “Wikidata gets wordier”, in MultiLingual:

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata.


userbox

userbox (plural userboxes or (jocular) userboxen)

userboxes (plural)
userboxen (humorous plural)

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I wasn't satisfied with the retrogamer userbox, so I created a new one.

2006, Lee K Seitz, “Any Wikipedians here?”, in rec.games.video.classic (Usenet):

Creating a userbox template for posting on member editors' user pages.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual:

Currently, this userbox-mania is tending to decrease on Russian Wikipedia, being systematically repressed by administrators, but it is still thriving in the Ukrainian edition.

2013, Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor & Vera Zvereva (eds.), Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States, page 134:

(originally wiki jargon, Wikimedia jargon) A simple, standardised box placed on a webpage to indicate the user's proficiencies or preferences.


TFA

TFA (countable and uncountable, plural TFAs)

Today's featured article
Wikipedia:Today's featured article

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Today's featured article in English Wikipedia.


Wikinewsie

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From Wikinews + -ie (diminutive suffix).

However, many Wikinews stories rely on traditional news organizations' reports as source material, although the site is designed to point out original reporting by Wikinewsies

2006, Janet Kolodzy, Convergence journalism: writing and reporting across the news media, page 238:

The wiki ethic at the heart of Wikinews invites a particular type of relationship with its volunteer journalists, or 'wikinewsies' as they are sometimes called, that revolves around their continued good will […]

2006, Stuart Allan, Online news: journalism and the Internet, page 136:

Wikinews—part of Wikipedia, the largest community public encyclopedia of information—promises to deliver “the free news source you can write” and enlists an army of Wikinewsies who contribute thousands of news reports.

2008, Michele Weldon, Everyman news: the changing American front page, page 70:

(Wikimedia jargon) A reporter or user at Wikinews.


meat puppet

(Wikimedia jargon) A user who makes unconstructive edits on behalf of another user.


wikiality

wikiality (usually uncountable, plural wikialities)

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Blend of Wikipedia + reality, coined by Stephen Colbert 31 July 2006 on his show, The Colbert Report.

A group of undergraduates and alumni combated the backlash of "wikiality" and put their own spin on the facts about Cornell in an article about the University on the Web site Wikipedia.

2006 September 20, Felicia Daniels, “Wikipedia selects Cornell U. page as 'Featured Article'”, in University Wire:

2007 January 21, Kevin Garcia, “Wikiality is not reality”, in The Brownsville Herald:

Yet, this is the wikiality("truth based on consensus rather than fact") of the world, I'm sorry, of America, today

2007 January 5, Matt Martin, “Are we best we can be?”, in The Lantern:

Most important, here, Colbert calls attention to the Bush administration's cooption of wikiality: its continuous campaign to manipulate public perception.

2009, Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, Ethan Thompson, Satire TV: politics and comedy in the post-network era, NYU Press, →ISBN:

(derogatory) The supposed reality described by Wikipedia articles, whose content is established by majority consensus.


wikitext

It is also possible to extend the wikitext with explicit semantic information encoded with the use of RDF[…]

2011, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence III, page 106:

(Wikimedia jargon) A lightweight markup language used to format and structure pages in wikis.

This latter format, called wikitext, is written by means of a simplified markup language and its style and syntax vary, depending on the different implementations.

2010, Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Quality and Communicability for Interactive Hypermedia Systems:

(Wikimedia jargon) Content that has been marked up with such a language.


speedy delete

en-verb

speedy delete (third-person singular simple present speedy deletes, present participle speedy deleting, simple past and past participle speedy deleted)

speedy deletes (present singular third-person)
speedy deleting (participle present)
speedy deleted (participle past)
speedy deleted (past)

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The article should be speedy deleted, as a blatant and obvious hoax.

On Wednesday evening, Wales posted this note on Wikimedia Commons: […] “I think our existing policies here on commons are sufficient to deal with the problem – with the minor exception that many things should just be speedy deleted and argued about later.[…]”

2010 May 7, Jana Winter, “Exclusive: Wikipedia's Parent Company Starts Purging Porn From Its Websites”, in Fox News:

“Speedy Delete—G1 [general criterion 1], G2, G3, or G11—Take your pick. How about simply not notable, vandalism, hoax, etc? Whether it can be considered art or not is irrelevant. Wikipedia ain’t your canvas.”

2015, Nathaniel Tkacz, Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, →ISBN, page 59:

“Speedy Delete. Yawn. […] There’s *less* attention to him now than before. He’s little different than most teenagers that host a party without their parents^([sic]) knowledge, even if he does wear big glasses and make an ass of himself on TV.”

2017, Catherine Hartung, Conditional Citizens: Rethinking Children and Young People’s Participation, →ISBN, page 101, note 10:

(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon, transitive) To summarily delete one or more pages without having a discussion on whether to keep or to delete, almost always if the page is obviously worthy of uncontroversial deletion.


wikilawyering

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[…] comments like these about "Jew-baiting" are very rare on even the most contentious of "discussion" and "mediation" pages. What one finds there instead is wikilawyering — cryptic, acronym-laden debate invoking protocol and precedent.

2007, Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent:

2008, Big Bad Bob, “Re: alt-hacker.org member busted for wikilawyering!”, in alt.hacker (Usenet):

What, and be buried in wikilawyering designed to keep actual subject matter experts out and leave wp safely in the hands of the wikieditor cliques?

2012, Graham Nye, “Four killed in US when train hits float carrying veterans”, in uk.railway (Usenet):

(Wikimedia jargon) Engaging in legalistic arguments on a wiki.


autopatrolled

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(wiki jargon, originally Wikimedia jargon) Having a status such that one's edits need not be checked, or patrolled, by other users.


indeffed

Shortened from indefinite (block) + -ed.

indef'd (alternative)
indef'ed (alternative)

Someone else may want to consider whether the AFDs should be closed as initiated disruptively by a sock of an indeffed user.

(Wikimedia jargon) Used to describe a user, account, or IP address that is indefinitely blocked or banned from editing or other actions.


Wikidata

A free-content, multilingual, online knowledge base and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.


ignore all rules

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(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) It is acceptable to break rules in situations where it is beneficial not to follow them.


magic link

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(Wikimedia jargon) On MediaWiki, a feature that creates automatic links for certain hardcoded external identifiers, such as for ISBN numbers.


IAR

Ignore all rules
ignore all rules#English

(initialism, Wikimedia jargon) Ignore all rules.


CheckUser

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A log of CheckUser actions is visible to all Checkusers.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, →ISBN, page 327:

This is the CheckUser software, accessible to a restricted number of admins. CheckUser identifies what IP address registered Wikipedians are accessing the site from.

2009, Mathieu O'Neil, Cyberchiefs: autonomy and authority in online tribes, page 162:

Wales wished to delegate the substantive disputes amng editors, determinations of which editors have the "CheckUser" power to check IP addresses of suspected vandals and the oversight power of "enhanced deletion" over libelous material or material that infringes copyright, and decisions about banning users that he had heretofore made on his own.

2014, Thomas Leitch, Wikipedia U, →ISBN:

(Wikimedia jargon) A tool that allows someone to view the IP addresses of wiki users, so as to identify sock puppets, etc; or the authority to use that tool.


three-revert rule
three-revert rule#English

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of three-revert rule.


three-revert rule

the three-revert rule (canonical)
3-revert rule (alternative)

(Wikimedia jargon) A rule on the English Wikipedia which forbids more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period by an editor.

Wikipedia:Edit warring#The three-revert rule


rvv

Vandalism patrolling, though formally neither a project nor a process, is some of the most important ongoing work on ... you are reverting to make sure you're only undoing vandalism, and then add an edit summary: rvv vandalism is common.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 209:

The consequences of reverting a good-faith edit with a vandalism-reversion tool or "rvv" edit summary are unpredictable, and unlikely to win you friends or trust.

2008, PaulHammond, “The Laws of Unintended Consequences”, in talk.religion.bahai (Usenet), retrieved 2018-08-12:

If so, you need only to put rvv (which stands for revert vandalism) in the edit summary.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 95:

For each revision, we analyse its comment for keywords of “vandal” and “rvv” (revert due to vandalism), indicating the occurrence of ...

2013, Jian Pei, Vincent S. Tseng, Longbing Cao, Hiroshi Motoda, Guandong Xu, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 17th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2013, Gold Coast, Australia, April 14-17, 2013, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 271:

In such cases, the edit summaries may merely record 'revert', 'rv' or 'rvv'.

2016, Dan O'Sullivan, Wikipedia: A New Community of Practice?, Routledge, →ISBN, page 141:

(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon, informal) Initialism of revert vandalism; used in edit summaries to indicate that the editor has reverted another user's vandalism of a page.


citogenesis

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From cite + -o- + -genesis, probably inspired by cytogenesis. Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2011 in his webcomic xkcd.

coinage

Relatedly, Wikipedia has been a locus of ‘citogenesis’: “the creation of ‘reliable’ sources through circular reporting” […] In citogenesis, information is added to Wikipedia, which is then picked up in media reports, which are in turn used as ‘independent’ sources to support the original information in Wikipedia.

2018, David Coady, James Chase, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology, Routledge, →ISBN:

It was at this time that the first cases of “citogenesis”—circular and false reporting originating from Wikipedia—appeared.

2020, Joseph Reagle, Jackie Koerner, editors, Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 27:

(informal, Wikimedia jargon) A circular form of citation where various sources report each other.


GAN

en-noun

GAN (countable and uncountable, plural GANs)

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of good article nomination.


AfD

AfD (countable and uncountable, plural AfDs)

When you nominate an article for deletion using the AfD process, you get to a point in the process where you have to give a reason.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 374:

Anyone can discuss AfD nominations by simply going to the main AfD page and adding a signed comment with his or her opinion about whether to keep or delete the article being discussed

2008, P. Ayers, C. Matthews, B. Yates, How Wikipedia Works, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 223:

After 7 days, AfD discussions are reviewed by an uninvolved user or administrator who attempts to determine the consensus.

2012, J. Schneider, A. Passant, S. Decker, “Deletion discussions in Wikipedia”, in Cliff Lampe, editor, WikiSym '12 (conference proceedings), New York: ACM, →ISBN:

Intra-organizational social capital was measured with the variable Experienced Participant Early Intervention. This variable was created through the identification of the most active participants in the AfDs and whether they contributed within the first 48 hours of the deliberation.

2022 November 16, Elisabeth Joyce, Pinar Oztoruk, Jacqueline C. Pike, “Effective Organizing on the Fly: Social Capital in Temporary Organizations”, in Journal of Computer Information Systems, volume 63, number 5, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1213-1227:

articles for deletion
w:articles for deletion

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of articles for deletion, a process on the English Wikipedia for deleting articles through discussion.


Wikimedian in Residence

Wikimedian in Residence (plural Wikimedians in Residence)

To Alice White, Wikimedian in Residence, Wellcome Library, for guidance on finding images, locating Wellcome treasures, and warnings of 'weasel words' and 'peacock terms'.

2018, Gianetta Rands, Women's Voices in Psychiatry: A Collection of Essays, page xi:

Some Wikipedia Visiting Scholars have asked for closer collaboration with their host institutions, creating the stepping-stone for a Wikimedian in Residence type of position.

2018, Merrilee Proffitt, Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge:

The students are supported by the University of Edinburgh's 'Wikimedian in residence'; a digital skills trainer employed by the university's information services division in partnership with, and supported by, Wikimedia UK as the nationalchapter of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

2019, Anna Comas-Quinn, Ana Beaven, Barbara Sawhill, New case studies of openness in and beyond the language classroom, page 86:

(Wikimedia jargon) A Wikimedian who holds a visiting scholar position at an educational institution.


BLP

Ariel added a note to Keith's article on Wikipedia, but strictly speaking, her note isn't properly cited, especially for a BLP page. (Silly perhaps, but Wiki isn't really a first-person news reporting site.) There's more on the Talk page.

2007 February 3, Android Cat, “Re: Keith Henson”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

w:Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of biography of a living person.


Wikipedist

From Wikipedia + -ist, likely by analogy with encyclopedist.

It has of course the brilliant let-out that it does not seek to prove that its statements are true, but only that they are “verifiable”. This principle is relatively weak: Wikipedists are supposed to be able to source their remarks.

2007, Richard D. North, “Scrap the BBC!”: Ten Years to Set Broadcasters Free, London: Social Affairs Unit, →ISBN, page 141:

(Wikimedia jargon, rare) A Wikipedian (person who contributes to Wikipedia).


transwiki

en-verb

transwiki (third-person singular simple present transwikis, present participle transwikiing, simple past and past participle transwikied)

transwikis (present singular third-person)
transwikiing (participle present)
transwikied (participle past)
transwikied (past)

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From trans- + wiki; coined in 2003 in the Wikimedia context.

Teams offers the option of a wiki for each team, so go ahead and use those wikis and we'll just transwiki as needed.

This is the Wikia Pro Wrestling transwiki log.

2007 June 29, Jaydvb, “Pro Wrestling:Transwiki”, in Fandom, retrieved 2022-02-16:

This project or template has a transwiki guide to help editors adapt it to a remote wiki when this cannot be done by simply copying the codes of one single template.

2018 January 15, Robertinventor, “Template:Transwiki guide”, in Encyclopedia of Buddhism, retrieved 2022-02-16:

(originally Wikimedia jargon, wiki jargon) To move content from one wiki to another, on sites such as Wikimedia projects, Fandom, or PBworks, or in apps such as Microsoft Teams (wiki function therein).


rangeblock

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(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) The blocking of access from an entire range of IP addresses.


license laundering

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(Wikimedia jargon, copyright law) The replacement of the license of a copyrighted creative work with a different license, for which the copyright holder has not given their permission.


Wikimania

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At the Wikimania conference this weekend in Stockholm, the Wikimedia Foundation signed a first-of-its-kind partnership with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

2019 August 16, Stephen Harrison, “Wikimania to the Rescue”, in Slate:

(Wikimedia jargon) An annual gathering of Wikimedians.


wiki crack

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Then one night he corrected an error in an article about Jewish holidays. You can do that?! It was his first inhalation of Wiki crack. He became one of Wikipedia's earliest registered users and wrote his first article—on Muckleshoot, a Washington State Indian tribe. Since then, he has made more than 16,000 contributions.

2006, Daniel H. Pink, “The Book Ends Here”, in The Best of Technology Writing 2006, Ann Arbor, M.I.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 109:

"You can't talk about it in terms of left and right," explains Corr. "But the whole way it is set up is about inclusivity, community and equality rather than competition and individualism." For the most part, people at the conference didn't talk about it in these terms at all. When the wiki-crack takes over, all you are interested in is your next hit.

2006 August 9, Gary Younge, “Geek nation”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-17:

Sites like Wikipedia are more in the middle, perhaps. Maybe people are drawn in by one initial topic and discover wikicrack and turn to a wider range of articles. (I know I have devoted a lot of time to topics I don't actually care about simply because I was wikiaddicted.)

2007 September 30, Brianna Laugher, “[Wiki World] a metric for community”, in Google Groups (Wiki World), archived from the original on 2023-06-11:

Finishing the 3,000 entries kicked off something in Ramsey's pleasure center. He had his first whiff of "wiki-crack," the irreverent jargon Wikipedians have used to describe their addiction. So he set out on the next task—adding 33,832 city articles to Wikipedia.

2009, Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 101:

There is something fundamental, almost primordial at work. Some Wikipedians refer to it as "wiki-crack." It's the rush of dopamine that seems to hit the brain's pleasure center when you make a smart edit and it appears instantly in a Wikipedia article.

[2014 October 19, Walter Isaacson, “You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 2022-10-14:

(Wikimedia jargon, humorous) A notional drug, likened to crack cocaine, supposed to cause individuals to become addicted to editing Wikipedia.


eventualism

Apart from writing encyclopedia pages, The Cunctator loved to discuss Wikipedia and its policies. He spoke for anarchy (or at least an absence of hierarchy), eventualism (Wikipedia will get there in the end; his pseudonym means 'the delayer') and inclusionism (the wikiphilosophy whose motto could be 'let there be more articles').

2009, Andrew Dalby, The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality, Draycott, Somerset: Siduri Books, →ISBN, page 121:

For some, eventualism is a fancy name for "passing the buck." It is being lackadaisical in doing something right now to fix things. For professional writers, editors, and academics, leaving things in a half-baked state was a clear departure from their comfort zone. But given the masses of wiki, Slashdot, Usenet, and open source software veterans, eventualism remained the prevailing attitude, at least in the early days.

2009, Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 121:

(Wikimedia jargon) A wikiphilosophy which emphasizes the importance of an article's value in the distant future.


wikiphilosophy

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(Wikimedia jargon) A philosophy or system of thought pertaining to the editing of Wikipedia.


WikiGnome

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To meet its goal of encapsulating the sum of human knowledge, Wikipedia draws on the talents of different kinds of editors. [Bryan] Henderson is an archetypical WikiGnome, a contributor who specializes in fixing typos, repairing broken links, adding categories and, yes, correcting grammar.

2015 February 3, Andrew McMillen, “Meet the Ultimate WikiGnome”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-20:

On another front, one of the site's most prolific editors has made thousands of revisions, almost all of them correcting perceived misusages of the phrase "comprised of" across the site's millions of articles. Far from being treated as an eccentric outlier, this editor is celebrated, recognized as an exemplary WikiGnome, a class of editors committed to "tying up little loose ends and making things run more smoothly."

2015 February 18, Jacob Brogan, “Han Solo Shot First”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-02-19:

[Steven] Pruitt considers himself a WikiGnome (according to Wikipedia, "a wiki user who makes useful incremental edits without clamouring for attention"), and he works the gamut, though much of his recent focus is on "authority control" — linking entries to worldwide library catalogues — and especially on categorizing articles.

2018 October 2, Stephen Harrison, “Wikipedia’s top editor is this mild-mannered Virginian”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-02:

(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) A wiki editor (such as Wikipedia) that primarily makes minor and uncontroversial edits such as fixing typos and grammar mistakes.


metapedian

Users also move among different communities as they move from being a new user to an active user, or choose at any stage to exit the platform. Indeed it is not uncommon for many active users and metapedians to suffer burnout.

2015, Kim Osman, Wikipedia: Access and participation in an open encyclopaedia (thesis), Brisbane, Queensland: Queensland University of Technology, page 99:

(Wikimedia jargon) A Wikipedia editor who focuses on the social side of the project, such as participating in discussions or community events, rather than editing articles and contributing content.


editcountitis

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A system that encourages number of contributions over quality can be counterproductive. Wikipedia cautions against 'editcountitis', humorously described as 'a belief that a Wikipedian's overall contribution level can be measured solely by their edit count'.

2006, Jane Klobas, Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Chandos Publishing, →ISBN, page 199:

The author of the original tool for counting edits noted that editcountitis, or an unhealthy obsession with the notion of edit count, can be fatal. Editcountitis is often a symptom of Wikipediholism, which is an even worse disease. The only sure treatment is worrying more about the quality of your edits than the quantity.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works, San Francisco, C.A.: No Starch Press, →ISBN, pages 324–325:

Wikipedians can be a similarly compulsive and eccentric lot. So much so that some refer to themselves as Wikipediholics with a case of editcountitis, "a serious disease consisting of an unhealthy obsession with the number of edits you have made to Wikipedia."

2010, Joseph M. Reagle Jr., Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, Cambridge, M.A., London: MIT Press, page 157:

In fact, the very ease of this process may be the reason for deletionism's prevalence: Many Wikipedians suffer from editcountitis, the state of being overly obsessed with the number of edits one makes.

2017 March 6, Dariusz Jemielniak, “The Wikipedia Battle Over Really Short Articles”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2023-05-29:

(Wikimedia jargon) An obsession with increasing one's edit count on a wiki.


Wikipediholic

Hopefully, you'll get hooked on Wikipedia soon and can add yourself to the list of "Wikipediholics" ;-).

2003 July 18, Erik Moeller, “Wikipedia needs skeptics”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet):

Yes, I am a Wikipediholic.

2004 July 6, Bryan Derksen, “Ringworld's Children”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

Many Wikipedia pages deal with topics only of interest to the Wikipedia community itself. Some of these pages are funny: there's a 1,181-question test to see if you're a Wikipediholic (for anyone who willingly sits through the entire test, I think the answer is obviously "yes"); a list of articles with freaky titles ("22.86 Centimetre Nails," the metric version of the band "Nine Inch Nails," now unfortunately deleted); and many others.

2012, Michael Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Princeton, N.J., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 53:

(Wikimedia jargon) Someone who is addicted to editing Wikipedia.


Wikipediholism

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Blog streaking, Google-stalking, Wikipediholism and other modern maladies

2006 December 21, Jack Schofield, “(article title)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-28:

The community has dubbed obsessively editing the encyclopedia Wikipediholism; an article for the term warns that, "like any behavioral addiction, Wikipedia overuse may lead to job loss, divorce, bankruptcy, or worse. […] Remember, it's your time and you are donating it to Wikipedia. It is healthy to donate what you can afford to donate, but no more."

2015 February 3, Andrew McMillen, “One Man's Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-18:

(Wikimedia jargon) An addiction to editing Wikipedia.


Wiknic

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"Basically, we tried to encourage people in each local area to do their own thing," says Richard Knipel, who has been heavily involved with New York area Wiknics on which the national effort, planned for 18 cities around the United States, is based.

2011 June 24, Monica Hesse, “A Wiki-Picnic for online encyclopedia editors”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-28:

I find it regrettable that these events are only in the U.S. There are plenty of excellent Wikipedia contributors all around the world, and there are provisions for "Start[ing] an event for your city" (see the main Wiknic article), so I hope people from other countries will schedule local Wiknics soon.

2013 June 20, Berkeley Brett, “Wikipedia's own Manual of Style”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

On a recent Sunday, some members of the Wikimedia D.C. chapter — an eclectic mix of 50 or so area academics, professionals and all-around geeks — met up in Meridian Hill Park, not far from the White House, as part of the nationwide "Great American Wiknic." The group picnic, like the encyclopedia itself, was potluck.

2013 July 16, “The Great American Wiknic [edit]”, in NPR:

(Wikimedia jargon) A picnic organized by Wikimedians.


oversighter

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Oversighters are allowed to hide revisions, user names, and other entries in an article's record of revisions (its log) so that only other oversighters and stewards can see them (called “suppression”).

2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, page 34:

(Wikimedia jargon) A user with special wiki privileges allowing them to hide deleted data from the publicly viewable logs.


dicdef

(Wikimedia jargon) Syllabic abbreviation of dictionary definition.


speedy deletion

en-noun

speedy deletion (plural speedy deletions)

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(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) The immediate deletion of one or more pages without having a discussion on whether to keep or to delete, almost always if the page is obviously worthy of uncontroversial deletion.


Wikiportal

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(Wikimedia jargon) A page on Wikipedia or another wiki that acts as a "main page" for a specific topic or area.


ArbCom

Arbitration Committee
w:Arbitration Committee (Wikipedia)

(Wikimedia jargon) Abbreviation of Arbitration Committee.


autopatroller

(wiki jargon, originally Wikimedia jargon) A trusted contributor whose edits and creations are automatically marked as "patrolled" and do not require being reviewed by a patroller or an administrator.


Wokepedia

Wokipedia (alternative)
Wokeipedia (alternative)

(slang, derogatory, neologism) Wikipedia, perceived as wokeist propaganda.

2020 November 22, @VileGrim, Twitter:
Wokepedia -- sorry, I mean Wikipedia -- showing more than ever they're a group of far-left political fanatics. They don't bother to hide their activism anymore. Such insecure self-serving nerds that they can't even report reality -- only their paranoid delusions.

2024 December 27, Elon Musk, quotee, “Wikipedia at Elon Musk's crosshairs, slams its $50 million DEI budget, calls it 'Wokepedia'”, in The Economic Times:
Elon Musk has called on his followers to stop donating to Wikipedia which he derogatorily referred to as Wokepedia due to its significant budget allocation for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, reported New York Post.

2025 February 5, Lila Shroff, quoting Elon Musk, “Elon Musk Wants What He Can’t Have: Wikipedia”, in The Atlantic:
In recent months, he has repeatedly attempted to delegitimize Wikipedia, suggesting on X that it is “controlled by far-left activists” and calling for his followers to “stop donating to Wokepedia.”

The Washington Post
w:The Washington Post

2025 April 25, Will Oremus, Julian Mark, quoting Elon Musk, “U.S. attorney for D.C. accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ threatens nonprofit status”, in The Washington Post:
In December 2024, Musk posted on X, “Stop donating to Wokepedia,” resharing a post from the right-wing account Libs of TikTok that claimed the organization spent a chunk of its annual budget on diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI — a set of programs the Trump administration has demonized and targeted for cuts.