watchlist

The police have hundreds of citizens on their watchlists.

The TSA provides the airlines with the “No Fly” and “Automatic Selectee” watchlists for use in identifying passengers who are to be denied boarding or who require additional scrutiny prior to boarding. The “No Fly” watchlist is a list of persons who are considered a direct threat to U.S. civil aviation.

2010, William J. Krouse, Terrorist Watchlist Checks and Air Passenger Prescreening, page 11:

A list of people or things that are assigned to receive special attention or monitoring.


bureaucrat

/ˈbjʊəɹəkɹæt/

/ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/

One of three major processes is generally used: a bureaucrat review, a broader community review, or an approvals group review. As only local bureaucrats or Wikimedia stewards can grant the bot flag necessary to operate an authorized bot, the simplest method is to appeal directly to these individuals.

2014, Pnina Fichman, Noriko Hara, editors, Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 18:

(wiki jargon) A user on a wiki with the right to change user access levels.


wiki

en-verb

wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)

wikis (present singular third-person)
wikiing (participle present)
wikied (participle past)
wikied (past)

Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wiki
First appearance in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.

etymon

To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.

I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe

2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, in Wired News:

Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'

2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Janus”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):

I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.

(transitive, intransitive) To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.


GA

en-noun

GA (countable and uncountable, plural GAs)

(wiki jargon) Initialism of good article.


OR

OR (countable and uncountable, plural ORs)

(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of original research.


sandbox

→ Chinese: 沙盒 (shāhé) (calque)

(wiki jargon) A page on a wiki where users are free to experiment without destroying or damaging any legitimate content.


salt

en-verb

salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)

salts (present singular third-person)
salting (participle present)
salted (participle past)
salted (past)

PIE word
 *séh₂ls
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”). Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".

(wiki jargon) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.


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 *-tis
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Latin -tiō
Latin dictiō
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


Wikipedian

Many scholars of Wikipedian theology theorize that if consensus is ever reached, Wikipedia will spontaneously disappear.

2006 April 19, “The Wikipedia FAQK”, in Wired News:

In these Googlial Wikipedian times, a vast collection of wordbooks may seem slow, unnecessary or both.

2007 September 6, GALE ZOË GARNETT, “The language of the love of language”, in Globe and Mail:

If people stopped believing in the Wikipedian ideal, and used its tools for vandalism, "it's unlikely the whole enterprise would survive a week"

2008 March 21, Pat Kane, “Here Comes Everybody, by Clay Shirky. We-Think, by Charles Leadbeater”, in Independent:


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.


lock

en-verb

lock (third-person singular simple present locks, present participle locking, simple past locked, past participle locked or (obsolete) locken)

locks (present singular third-person)
locking (participle present)
locked (past)
locked (participle past)
locken (obsolete participle past)

unlock

antonym(s) of “to fasten with a lock, to be capable of becoming fastened in place”

From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”). The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Related to luxe via Latin.

der

lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen

lock the stable door after the horse has bolted

Frequently-vandalized pages are generally locked to prevent further damage.

(Internet, wiki jargon, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.


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, metonymically) An unregistered user identified by their IP address.

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


Wikiholic

I'm a Wikipedia editor. A Wikiholic. I have some 500 articles on my watchlist (!!!) and I edit some of the more controversial articles on WP: the Islam-related articles. For many months, I have been butting heads with some Iranian Shi'a editors...

2005 November 27, Karen Lofstrom, “Peeve: Iranian Shi'a”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet):

2005, Richard Quinn, as quoted by David Dyer-Bennet, “Re: Charlie Stross: Wikipedian Extraordinaire” (April 8), rec.arts.sf.written, Usenet
I was blessed with insight, that rare moment of lucidity which can truly validate the Buddhist belief in a path to enlightenment: Charles Stross is a Wikiholic!

"A lot of them are probably the sort of people who would have social problems in real life," said one wikimaniac over lunch, as though being a "wikiholic" suggested a full and active life.

2006 August 9, “Gary Younge reports on Wiki-mania, and Wikipedia vandalism”, in The Guardian Unlimited:

(wiki jargon) Someone who is addicted to editing Wikipedia or another wiki.

wikiholiker

person who devotes lots of time to a wiki-based project


nuke

Clipping of nuclear weapon. The verb is derived from the noun.

(colloquial) vessel running on nuclear power

Confronted with the threat of several nukes on the island, we soon realized that the Long Island Sound is being used as a massive cooling basin for nuclear reactors.

1979, Anna Gyorgy et al., “Atomic Power, Nuclear Plants”, in No Nukes: Everyone’s Guide to Nuclear Power (Black Rose Books; no. I.49), Montreal, Que.: Black Rose Books, →ISBN, page 406:

Nukes Don't Pollute

2002, Home Power - Issues 86-91, page 121:

He calculates that nukes might be needed to power energy-intensive “large scale co2 sequestration techniques” as well.

2010, Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, page 155:

We've analyzed employee manifests at all nukes, LNG, and refineries in the United States for Middle Eastern profile matches.

nuclear power station
nuclear power station


nuke

en-verb

nuke (third-person singular simple present nukes, present participle nuking, simple past and past participle nuked)

nukes (present singular third-person)
nuking (participle present)
nuked (participle past)
nuked (past)

The command and control servers used by the Mydoom variant, responsible for the recent denial of service attacks against Korean and US government websites, receive instructions from a master server located in the UK. [...] Apparently, the decision of whoever was responsible to damage the infected systems after July 10 pointed [Roger] Thompson in this direction. "Why bother nuking 60k computers after doing all the work of assembling them? Nuking them only helps the Good Guys, because the victims are forced to re-build, and therefore clean, their computers. [..."]

2009 July 14, Lucian Constantin, “Master Control Server for Mydoom DDoS Botnet Tracked to UK: Security Experts Stress that North Korea’s Involvement in the Attacks is Unlikely”, in Softpedia News, archived from the original on 2016-05-09:

denial-of-service attack
denial-of-service attack

(transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).


stub

From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-West Germanic *stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr, Faroese stubbi (“stub”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”). Doublet of stob.
Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.

Even though the stub is a dummy, it allows us to determine whether the procedure is called at the right time by the program or calling procedure.

2000, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, John W. McCormick, Programming and Problem Solving with ADA 95, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 352:

(programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.

Coordinate term: skeleton

The server performs the server RPC runtime library functions to accept the request and call the server stub procedure. […] After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server.

2002, Judith M. Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7:

(computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.

A stub is usually long enough to serve as a quick definition, but too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject (see Figure 4-2).

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 66:

(wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.

بذرَة

(wikis) page providing minimal information


wikify

wikify (third-person singular simple present wikifies, present participle wikifying, simple past and past participle wikified)

wikifies (present singular third-person)
wikifying (participle present)
wikified (participle past)
wikified (past)

The Los Angeles Times proved this last week, with its high-minded but ultimately hilarious attempt to 'wikify ' its editorial column.

2005 June 26, Frank Kane, “Eureka! Journalists may not be doomed after all”, in The Observer:

Although he's adamant that NCBI is not going to "wikify" GenBank, Lipman says he's eager to work with mycologists to come up with a solution, possibly through RefSeq.

2008 March 21, Elizabeth Pennisi, “Proposal to 'Wikify' GenBank Meets Stiff Resistance”, in Science:

(transitive) To make into a wiki, or to use a wiki approach for.


disambiguation

en-noun

disambiguation (countable and uncountable, plural disambiguations)

/dɪsæmˌbɪɡjuːˈeɪʃən/

(wiki jargon) A page on a wiki containing links to two or more topics with the same name.


sysop

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


dewikify

en-verb

dewikify (third-person singular simple present dewikifies, present participle dewikifying, simple past and past participle dewikified)

dewikifies (present singular third-person)
dewikifying (participle present)
dewikified (participle past)
dewikified (past)

I dewikified "a kind of deciduous tree" to "a kind of deciduous tree".

(wiki jargon, transitive) To remove wiki markup formatting, such as internal links.


FA

en-noun

FA (countable and uncountable, plural FAs)

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of featured article.


WikiProject

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.


sock puppet

en-verb

sock puppet (third-person singular simple present sock puppets, present participle sock puppeting, simple past and past participle sock puppeted)

sock puppets (present singular third-person)
sock puppeting (participle present)
sock puppeted (participle past)
sock puppeted (past)

(wiki jargon, transitive, intransitive) To create or use a sock puppet (alternative user account).


oversight

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.


Wiki

Wiki is where I go to research facts about Asian culture.


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.


wheel war

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From wheel (“superuser on certain systems”) + war.

compound

WHEEL WARS. A period during which student wheels hack each other by attempting to log each other out of the system, delete each other’s files, or otherwise wreak havoc—usually at the expense of the lesser users. A battle of Titans (heh heh).

[1983, Guy L. Steele Jr., Donald R. Woods, Raphael A. Finkel, Mark R. Crispin, Richard M. Stallman, Geoffrey S. Goodfellow, The Hacker’s Dictionary: A Guide to the Computer Underground, New York: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 123:

Wikipedia policy prohibits “wheel wars”—cases in which a Wikipedia administrator repeatedly undoes the action of another—just as it prohibits edit wars.

2008, Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 290:

Many of us prefer to ask a colleague to intervene in a situation in which we risk entering a “wheel war” (when two or more editors revert each others’ edits over and over) or when we believe we need a consultation with a fresh eye.

2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 52:

(computing, slang) A conflict in which users of a given computer system or (later) wiki who have administrative privileges try to lock each other out of the system or repeatedly attempt to reverse each other’s administrative actions.


AWB

(wiki jargon, Wikimedia jargon) AutoWikiBrowser.


infobox

Roughly every third Wikipedia article contains an infobox – a table that displays important facts about the subject

2010, Dustin Lange, Felix Naumann, Extracting structured information from Wikipedia articles to populate infoboxes:

(wiki jargon) A consistently-formatted table which is present in articles with a common subject.


inclusionist

en-adj

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

Coordinate term: mergist

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.


transclude

en-verb

transclude (third-person singular simple present transcludes, present participle transcluding, simple past and past participle transcluded)

transcludes (present singular third-person)
transcluding (participle present)
transcluded (participle past)
transcluded (past)

Transcopyright, Permission to Transclude Publicly.

1999 December, Ted Nelson, “Xanalogical Structure, Needed Now More than Ever: Parallel Documents, Deep Links to Content, Deep Versioning, and Deep Re-Use”, in ACM Computing Surveys, volume 31, number 4es, →DOI:

Finally, at the very bottom of the edit window is a list of transcluded pages—generally, but not always, these are templates (page 17).

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 424:

That exception is the HTML <IMG> tag–which transcludes an image into the context of the document. The image itself is neither embedded within the document nor copied—it is transcluded.

2012, Julie A. Jacko, editor, Human Computer Interaction Handbook, 3rd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 571:

(programming) To substitute a template or other input for its rendered text, such as when parsing wikitext. To include by transclusion. To process fetched data in-line.


wikilink

/ˌwɪkɪˈlɪŋk/

Go through the article and create internal links (wikilinks) that point to other articles (this is part of what is called wikification).

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: the missing manual, page 75:

Adding too many wikilinks (overlinking) is usually caused by novice over-enthusiasm

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia works: and how you can be a part of it, page 151:

Veterans avoid the excessive use of wiki-compounding as it is considered "unencyclopedic" and cliche. However, it is tolerated when it refers to technical terms (eg, wikilinks), when it is an existing subject

2009, Charley Rowe, Eva Lia Wyss, Language and new media: linguistic, cultural, and technological evolutions, page 342:

(wiki jargon) A hyperlink from one wiki entry to another.


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.


notability

en-noun

notability (countable and uncountable, plural notabilities)

From notable + -ity; alternatively, may be analyzed as note + -ability.

(uncountable, wiki jargon) A standard used to determine whether a subject merits its own article.


wikification

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:

(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)

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

(Wikimedia jargon) To engage in an edit war.


MediaWiki

A camel case compound of media + wiki, based on Wikimedia.

MediaWiki is the most well-known wiki software because it is what runs WikiPedia. MediaWiki is simple to use and an excellent way to start collaborating on documentation or articles.

2006, Tim Jowers, The Business Guide to Free Information Technology, LuLu Press, →ISBN, page 59:

The architecture of MediaWiki is driven in large part by the idiosyncrasies of PHP. When MediaWiki was first developed, it used PHP 4.x, which lacked much in the way of object-oriented programming features.

2007, Mark S. Choate, Professional Wikis, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:

MediaWiki is the software platform underlying Wikipedia; he chose that software because he's "amazed and fascinated" with both Wikipedia and the software underlying it, he said. He wanted to learn more about building wikis, and thought Lostpedia was a good place to start.

2008 April 26, Mitch Wagner, “Lost Fans Find Internet Thrills Via Wikis, Games, Second Life”, in InformationWeek, archived from the original on 2012-10-22:

A notable irony of Wikipedia's popularity is that the editing process of its supporting technology, MediaWiki, is complex to learn. Editing Wikipedia pages requires significant investment to learn MediaWiki's unique and powerful code structure.

2009, Terry T. Kidd, Irene Chen, Wired for Learning: An Educator's Guide to Web 2.0, Information Age Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 187:

First released in 2002, MediaWiki is one of the top wiki engines and runs most of the wiki hosting sites. The name was a play on “Wikimedia,” and many people find it to be annoyingly confusing.

2010, John K. Waters, John Lester, The Everything Guide to Social Media, F+W Media Inc., →ISBN, page 166:

The main downside of publishing a site using MediaWiki is that it won't give you a great opportunity to use or improve your HTML skills.

2011, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day, Sams Publishing, →ISBN:

The site is based on Wikipedia's MediaWiki platform, which allows anyone to add or edit the available content, provided they register for an account using a verifiable email address.

2012 October 8, Neil McAllister, “Tech rivals team up for free web dev docs”, in The Register, www.theregister.co.uk, retrieved 2012-10-28:

The wiki software used by many websites, including the Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc.


red link

In most wikis, a link to a nonexistent page appears in red text.

(Internet, wiki jargon) A red hyperlink that directs to a nonexistent page of a wiki.


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.


sock puppeteer

From sock puppet + -eer, after the model of puppeteer.

It is intent to deceive or to dabble in malicious mischief that sets a sock puppeteer apart from a legitimate user with multiple accounts.

2005 December 21, Shelley Powers, "Yo! Sock Puppets!" on Burningbird.net

The idea of a sock puppeteer as a minion was an extension of the term that was published in 2000 by U.S. News and World Report.

2014, Timothy R. Levine, Encyclopedia of Deception, Vol. II, s.v. Sockpuppetry

A person who controls a sock puppet (any sense).


indef

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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)

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

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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.


sockpuppetry

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From sock puppet + -ry, under influence from puppetry.

The facelessness of the internet makes sockpuppetry all too tempting for many.

2007, Jonathon Keats, Control + Alt + Delete: A Dictionary of Cyberslang:

On the Internet, the new form of false identities is termed sock puppetry... the term came to be applied to people who would assume a false identity and then join an Internet group. The term has been extended to include people who use false identities on the Internet in order to deceive others.

The use of sock puppets, especially (Internet, derogatory) the use of pseudonymous online accounts for abuse.


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.


unwatch

en-verb

unwatch (third-person singular simple present unwatches, present participle unwatching, simple past and past participle unwatched)

unwatches (present singular third-person)
unwatching (participle present)
unwatched (participle past)
unwatched (past)

To unwatch a page, you can simply revisit the page; you'll notice the tab now says Unwatch. Click the tab again to remove the page.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, page 319:

(transitive, wiki jargon) To remove (a webpage) from one's watchlist.


sysophood

In one section, Schuyler states that someone aspiring to Fido sysophood "can only expect so much help" from the sysops that have already linked up.

1993, William J Shefski, Free Electronic Networks:

I have already walked the path of sysophood. It sure beats being a humble user.

1995, S|ren Erichsen, “THIS IS PELEDA CALLING WUNDEE!”, in alt.1d (Usenet):

I am going to apply for sysophood soon but have not done so yet.

2000, Alex Cain, “Temporary Ban...”, in microsoft.public.games.zone (Usenet):

(rare) The state or period of being a sysop.


TFA

en-noun

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.


userspace

userspace (countable and uncountable, plural userspaces)

(Internet) A namespace on a wiki used by individual users for personal details and discussions.


hatnote

From hat + note by analogy with footnote, endnote, etc.

If a reader searches for dioxin, she arrives at this article. The too-long hatnote on this page probably befuddled many readers looking for the Wikipedia article Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, page 320:

A hatnote on this default page points readers to the disambiguation page if they're looking for articles using a different meaning of the term.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, page 237:

(wiki jargon) A short note placed at the top of an article, normally to provide links to other similarly named articles or disambiguation pages.


magic word

/ˌmædʒɪk ˈwɜːd/

Coordinate term: magic number

One of the magic words used in the MediaWiki software is __NOTOC__, which hides the table of contents that would normally be on the page.

The header consists of an optional self-execution script, a magic word, a version number, and the word offset of the first instruction, relative to the magic word.

2021, Clinton L. Jeffery, Build Your Own Programming Language, page 273:

(computing) A string of text having some special function or purpose.


wiki markup

A lightweight markup language used to format and structure pages in wikis.


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.


blue link

In most wikis, a link to an existing page appears in blue text.

Beyond the satisfaction it provides linguistically and in terms of pure meanness, what makes “nepotism baby” so popular is that it also functions as a tool, a simple way for our brains to deconstruct the bigger idea of upward mobility in inequality. Every human is someone’s child, but not everyone’s parents are a blue link on Wikipedia.

2022 August 31, Alex Abad-Santos, “They hate to see a nepotism baby winning”, in Vox:

(Internet, wiki jargon) A blue hyperlink that directs to an existing page of a wiki.


thread mode

The phenomenon of a wiki being used for discussions.


wiki magic

The phenomenon of a wiki taking shape by being constructively edited by many people.


citation needed

From a tag, first created in June 2005, used on the English Wikipedia website to mark statements in articles that require verification.

I pass the Museo del Bargello, a former army barracks and prison, it is now home to masterpieces by Michelangelo, Donatello, Vincenzo Gemito and Robert Mapplethorpe [citation needed].

2013, Dan T. Alighieri [pseudonym], “Prologue”, in Dan’s Inferno: A Parody, London: Michael O’Mara Books, →ISBN, page 7:

I have learned recently, where I can't remember, that books made of scrolls of papyrus were cut into pages and enclosed in wooden covers. Books like this were in circulation at the time. For now, just like Wikipedia, we will mark this: "citation needed."

2013, Phil[lip D.] Johnson, “My Favorite Event as Told by Mark”, in Funny Stuff in the Bible: A Field Trip in the Bible Library, Eugene, Or.: Resource Publications, Wipf and Stock, →ISBN, page 91:

You know, every time I hear their stories [of near-death experiences] I just want to say "citation needed", because all the stuff they're saying, the only people who believe it happen to be the ones in their circles.

2013 December 4, Hemant Mehta, “Atheists, there is PROOF of Heaven!”, in YouTube, retrieved 2017-02-06:

Euclid’s solution was simply to take parallel lines for granted and add them in as a fifth postulate. [...] In The Elements, the first four postulates are stated in simple and obvious statements, together amounting to only thirty-four words. The fifth postulate alone requires thirty-five words. This was the ancient Greek equivalent of ‘citation needed’.

2014, Matt Parker, “Shapes: Now in 3D”, in Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician’s Journey through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 92:

Do you struggle to keep up with all the great podcasts and video content The Spinoff puts out every week? Luckily, we have a solution – introducing Rec Room, The Spinoff’s latest and some are saying greatest [citation needed] newsletter.

2020 August 17, “Subscribe to Rec Room, Our Newsletter for Video, Podcasts and Other Favourite Stuff”, in The Spinoff, archived from the original on 2020-09-29:

> Democrats want a centralized autocratic government / [citation needed] Meanwhile, Trump's autocratic tendencies have become legendary after his one and only term. / > Democrats want a dictatorial leader (as evidenced by their refusal to hold their leader(s) to any Constitutional or legal standards) / [citation needed] Meanwhile, Banana Republicans just spent four years displaying clear anti-democratic tendencies and support for a rogue executive who regularly flouted laws, norms, and Congressional oversight.

2020 November 7, Nadegda, “How to defeat a coup attempt”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

[...] [Nick] Kroll cited The Bible (citation needed) as dictating, "Thou shalt have a Goldberg [i.e., Evan Goldberg] that one grows up with, and then writes TV and movies with." Don’t question it.

2020 December 1, Dennis Perkins, “Nick Kroll Got Some Helpful Direction from Harry Styles on Popping the Question”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2020-12-01:

(originally Internet slang, chiefly humorous) Used to designate an assertion or other statement as false, inaccurate, or requiring verification.

verwysing benodig

used to designate an assertion or other statement as false, inaccurate, or requiring verification


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.


talk page

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The desire to fix something wrong—in this case, articles that have not kept up with the times—is meant to play out on an article’s “Talk page,” a companion page dedicated to discussing edits.

2023 January 22, Noam Cohen, “The Culture Wars Look Different on Wikipedia”, in The Atlantic:

(wiki jargon) A place on wiki websites where discussion of an entry or article takes place.

diskussionsside

place on wikis where discussion of a page takes place


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.


wikiphobia

Wikiphobia arises out of some level of fear or dislike of the wiki.

2008, Stewart Mader, Wikipatterns, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:

Here Comes Everybody is as crisply argued and as enlightening a book about the internet as has been written. It might even cure your wikiphobia.

2008 March 28, Julian Dibbell, “Wikiphobia and Web 2.0”, in The Telegraph:

Understand the cultural shift that needs to occur – wikiphobia is real.

2011, Government of British Columbia, "UX Toolbox: Building Better Web for Citizens", page 76


wikiphobe

([URL redacted] and [URL redacted] for the wikiphobes :)

2005 November 10, Bryan Derksen, “Re: Venusian orbital carbon industry?”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet):

However, (pace the wikiphobes) you could look at the wikipedia page for "grammar", which will tell you it comprises phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

2006 July 18, Richard Herring, “Re: Word count of minimum vocabulary”, in sci.lang (Usenet):

If, on the other hand, you can't get your inner wikiphobe to shut up, then Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody is the book for you.


autoconfirm

autoconfirm (third-person singular simple present autoconfirms, present participle autoconfirming, simple past and past participle autoconfirmed)

autoconfirms (present singular third-person)
autoconfirming (participle present)
autoconfirmed (participle past)
autoconfirmed (past)


indeffed

Shortened from indefinite (block) + -ed.

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.


mainspace

en-noun

mainspace (countable and uncountable, plural mainspaces)

In the tutorial […] you see how to move your article from your personal space (the draft) to mainspace, where actual articles reside.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, page 64:

This groups together a majority of the site's content. There is no namespace prefix for the mainspace.

2010, Jeff Orlof, Mizanur Rahman, MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide:

(Internet) The primary namespace of a wiki, excluding secondary content such as discussion pages.


wikiquette

Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wikiblend.
English etiquetteblend.
English wikiquette
Blend of wiki + etiquette

etymon

(Internet) The etiquette dictating the manner in which to behave when working on a wiki.


wiktionary

However, with the increase in free resources like wiktionaries, or the increase in the number of translated materials available on the Internet

2011, Zygmunt Vetulani, Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science:

PanLex draws on various lexical resources, including dictionaries, wiktionaries, glossaries, lexicons, word lists, terminologies, thesauri, wordnets, ontologies, vocabulary databases, namedentity resources, and standards

2011, Nikolas Coupland, The Handbook of Language and Globalization:

This lower bound is logically determined – a wiktionary with fewer entries could never provide a full IDS list – and not meant to be realistic. We do not know how big a wiktionary has to be in order to provide, say, 75% of an IDS list, but it is likely that several thousands of entries are required for this.

2013, Lars Borin, Anju Saxena, Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences, page 297:

Any online lexicon resembling Wiktionary.


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.


navbox

The editor created a navbox containing links related to football.

The general architecture allows for such a constraint to be validated from any source which mentions the two entities, including tables, list pages, navboxes, and perhaps wikified newswire articles [5,6].

2009, Iustin Dornescu, "Semantic QA for Encyclopaedic Questions: EQUAL in GikiCLEF" in Peters, C. et al., Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I: Text Retrieval Experiments, p. 330

The page analyzer then extracts existing data in Navboxes.

2015, Sedigheh Khalatbari, Seyed Mirroshandel, Automatic Construction of Domain Ontology Using Wikipedia and Enhancing it by Google Search Engine, page 252:

We introduce a novel dataset capturing the visual position of all links between articles of the English Wikipedia (including also templates, infoboxes/sidebars, and navboxes) based on their fine-grained screen coordinates […]

2016, D. Dimitrov, P. Singer, F. Lemmerich, “Visual Positions of Links and Clicks on Wikipedia”, in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, page 27:

(wiki jargon) A navigation box; a template placed on a page, outputting a box containing links to other, related articles.


Wikipedialike

en-adj

Wikipedialike (comparative more Wikipedialike, superlative most Wikipedialike)

more Wikipedialike (comparative)
most Wikipedialike (superlative)


wikiverse

In the wikiverse, the word "contributions" refers to edits done to a wiki.

(Internet) The entire collective scope of wikis.


magic link

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(Internet) A time-sensitive hyperlink sent by email, allowing the recipient to log in to a system without the usual authentication process.

(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.


checkuser

Essjay is serving a second term as chair of the mediation committee. He is also an admin, a bureaucrat, and a checkuser, which means that he is one of fourteen Wikipedians authorized to trace IP addresses in cases of suspected abuse.

2006, The New Yorker, volume 82, numbers 20-28, page 41:

In Wikipedia this kind of activities is performed by members who assume distinct social roles, for instance the quality of the articles is addressed by reviewers and rollbackers, and the users' management is handled by checkusers and account creators.

2011, Adriana S. Vivacqua, Carl Gutwin, Marcos R.S. Borges, Collaboration and Technology, →ISBN:

Checkusers are allowed to check IP addresses of users, usually to confirm or disprove that one person is editing from several accounts. Although formally one does not have to be an administrator to become a checkuser, in practice only some administrators receive these rights.

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

(wiki jargon) A user who is granted access to view the IP addresses of wiki users, so as to identify sock puppets etc.


Wikian

(dated) A person who contributes to the wiki farm Wikia (now called Fandom since 2016), especially a regular contributor versed in the ways of the site.


wikian

For quotations using this term, see Citations:wikian.

(rare) A contributor to any wiki or any number of wikis.


three-revert rule
three-revert rule#English

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of three-revert rule.


three-revert rule

(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


wikistorming

Blend of wiki + brainstorming or wiki + storming.

Wikistorming brings knowledge from campus libraries and translates it to the Web.

2014, The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University, page 232:

Working collaboratively and creatively in wikistorming sessions, many writers involved with technology, science and feminism have designed a "shared pedagogical activity" to help contribute to Wikipedia.

2015, Wei Zhang, Cheris Kramarae, “Bold Ideas for Creative Social Networking: An Invitational Discussion”, in Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies, →ISBN:

Feb 2016 Wikistorming to raise women artists’ Wikipedia presence with public's help

Dec 2016 Together Apart: FemTechNet and Feminist Online Collectives
Using the concept of “boundary objects,” students participating in FemTechNet have engaged in shared learning projects like “wikistorming,” in which students edit Wikipedia to improve the representation of women and people of color on the site

Two notable assignments were a maker project, in which the students had to build something, and “Wikistorming” in which participants created and revised Wikipedia articles on and about women as well as interrogating the processes and gender bias of Wikipedia editing ("feminist wiki-storming," 2016).

2016, Elizabeth A. Monske, Kristine L. Blair, Handbook of Research on Writing and Composing in the Age of MOOCs, →ISBN:

(Internet) A collaborative effort to inject a certain viewpoint (such as a feminist perspective) into a wiki website.


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.


Wikia

The information found on a wikia is often the most comprehensive and de facto source of fan-authored content around a topic.

2014, Brandon Rhea, Wikia: So Much More Than a Wiki:

Because editorial links between Wikipedia and the Wikias are quite rare, we attempt to connect more strongly the Wikia collections in our study to Wikipedia by employing NEMO, a state-of-the-art Wikipedia-based EDL system.

2017, Joemon M Jose, Claudia Hauff, Ismail Sengor Altıngovde, Advances in Information Retrieval: 39th European Conference:

The battle between the two sub‐fandoms led to some actions within the Wikia, and the change in “the collaborative authorship” (Booth 2010, 92) of the platform. But the Wikia is also and above all a symbol of how well organized the fandom is, […]

2018, Paul Booth, A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, page 393:

(Internet) A wiki hosted on the wiki farm Wikia.


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 Copmuter 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.


Wikipedic

en-adj

Wikipedic (comparative more Wikipedic, superlative most Wikipedic)

more Wikipedic (comparative)
most Wikipedic (superlative)

Adam Grant, who has an encyclopedic—should I say Wikipedic?—knowledge of the field, pointed me to relevant research that I wasn't aware of.

2013, Roger M. Schwarz, Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

Laurence Olivier playing Richard III, thought Holly, who had a Wikipedic knowledge of all sorts of weird stuff beyond the normal ken, that's who he reminds me of.

2014, J S Leitch, Rhaia's Children, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

Completing his habilitation, he became an associate professor and then spent a year at Harvard Law School, undertaking projects on lawyers' workplace enactment and Wikipedic organizational culture.

2016, Dariusz Jemielniak, The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace: Changing Roles and the Meaning of Work in Knowledge-Intensive Environments, Routledge, →ISBN:


Wikipedically

en-adv

Wikipedically (comparative more Wikipedically, superlative most Wikipedically)

more Wikipedically (comparative)
most Wikipedically (superlative)

Wikipedically correct

But, he says, this person may be Wikipedically naïve. “They didn’t quite know what they were getting into — they got a lot of conflict-of-interest notes,” he said.

2008, Noam Cohen, “Don’t Like Palin’s Wikipedia Story? Change It”, in The New York Times:

Columbus named the first island he found San Salvador. Wikipedically, the identity of this island is controversial.

2010, Jerry Friedman, “Seen in the Wild West Indies”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 2019-07-05:

(rare) In a way that pertains to Wikipedia.


Wikimedian

The museums asked Wikimedians to provide the institutions with lists of thematic topics that required illustration.

2010, Nina Simon, The Participatory Museum, page 271:

Trusted Wikimedians could apply for one of the many levels of volunteer stewardship, receive administrator rights, and then move on to become “bureaucrats” and eventually “stewards.”

2013, Sotirios Paroutis, Loizos Heracleous, Duncan Angwin, Practicing Strategy: Text and Cases:

To create such a role, an institution works in partnership with an affiliate or a champion to find a Wikimedian editing in a certain topic area that is relevant to the collection, and then the institution invites that Wikimedian to fill the “Visiting Scholar" position.

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


Wikimedian in Residence

en-noun

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.

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:

A Wikimedian who holds a visiting scholar position at an educational institution.


piped link

In that case, you can link to that section with a piped link, and the link doesn't have to be at the beginning of the entry.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, page 316:

(MediaWiki) An internal link with wikitext that creates hyperlinked text displayed on a page that is different from the title of the page to which the text links.


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.


taxonavigation

From taxo- + navigation. Coined on Wikispecies, which was launched in 2004.

Taxonavigation in design and architecture, much like the contemporary preoccupation with tagging, labeling, blogging, and wikiing has become integral to praxis and pedagogy.

2012, Liat Margolis, “Encoding Digital and Analogue Taxonavigation”, in Thomas Schröpfer, editor, Material Design: Informing Architecture by Materiality, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 148:

A good example for a taxonomy is the Wikispecies project, which aims at creating a directory of species. In the “Taxonavigation” the path in the taxonomy leading to the species is depicted.

2014, S Arroyo, K Siorpaes, “ONTOLOGIES AND ONTOLOGY LANGUAGES”, in Handbook of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, World Scientific, page 145:

Taxonavigation of microalgae
Chlorella vulgaris belongs to Chlorophyta (green algae) […] they were subjected to classification by dividing under main taxonomic groups based on their pigmentation.

2019 September, G. Panduranga Murthy, Rajesh Kumar, “Optimized production of biodiesel by fresh water algae oils derived from Chlorella wild stuff and performance characteristics of engine system by employing integration of chemical sciences and engineering technologies”, in NISCAIR-CSIR, India:

(taxonomy) The navigation of a directory of species or other taxonomic entities.


edit warrior

As Wikipedia has grown, Wales has been forced to impose some more centralized, policelike measures–to guard against “edit warriors,” “point-of-view warriors,” “revert warriors,” and all those who have difficulty playing well with others.

2006, Brendan I. Koerner, The Best of Technology Writing 2006, →ISBN, page 113:

Amid the scores of single-issue edit-warriors with screen names like PalestineRemembered, HumusSapiens, and G-Dett, two Wikipedians stand out for their tenacity and influence, and for the resourcefulness of their wikilawyering: Jayjg and SlimVirgin.

2007, Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60:

Edit warriors, however, are more often than not myopic in their view of Wikipedia, believing that a “wrong” version should not be allowed to stand on Wikipedia—even for a day!

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, →ISBN, page 389:

As the volume of work and of disputes grew, a Mediation Committee aiming to find common ground between edit warriors was established; it had no coercive power.

2009, Mathieu O'Neil, Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes, →ISBN, page 157:

(wiki jargon) One who engages in an edit war.


Brazilian aardvark

Brazilian aardvark (plural Brazilian aardvarks)

/bɹəˌzɪljən ˈɑɹdvɑɹk/

/bɹəˌzɪljən ˈɑːdvɑːk/

The name was picked up following its insertion into Wikipedia in July 2008 by Dylan Breves as a joke. The hoax was uncovered in 2014, but some use of the name has continued.

Specializing mostly in birds, pheasants and ducks, they also have a few donkeys, snakes, porcupines and a group of animals: Brazilian aardvarks, Mexican tejon, hog-nosed coons, pistoes and snookum bears, which are cousins of the racoon.

2010 April 20, Randy Burns, “Scape Ore Farms' menagerie becoming an attraction”, in The Item, volume 115, number 157, page A4:

If they receive government approval, the species they'll be working with would include the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus); jaguar (Panthera onca); black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus); bush dog (Speothos venaticus); Brazilian aardvark, also known locally as coati (Nasua nasua); collared anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla); gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira); and bison (Bison bison).

2012 November 14, John R. Platt, “Brazil Plans to Clone Its Endangered Species”, in Scientific American, quoted in print in Phillips, published 2020, →ISBN:

2013 February 20, "Brazilian aardvark on the loose in Marlow" (headline, when a coati escaped; article by James Nadal), in Bucks Free Press (Buckinghamshire, UK); quoted in print in Phillips (2020, →ISBN)

[…] A Brazilian aardvark, pictured enoying a snack in Tulum, Mexico.

2020, Tom Phillips, Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t, Harlequin, →ISBN:


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).


user page

brugerside

(Internet) A page on a website associated with a particular user.

(wikis, by extension, rare) Any page in the userspace, including a user subpage or talk page.


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).


red-linked

(Internet, wiki jargon) Marked by a red link (a hyperlink that directs to a nonexistent wiki page).


blue-linked

(Internet, wiki jargon) Marked by a blue link (a hyperlink that directs to an existing wiki page)


rangeblock

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


wikibreak

(wiki jargon) A period during which a person does not edit or contribute to a wiki, usually in order to focus on other concerns.


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.


fluffle

fluffle (third-person singular simple present fluffles, present participle fluffling, simple past and past participle fluffled)

fluffles (present singular third-person)
fluffling (participle present)
fluffled (participle past)
fluffled (past)

Added to the Wikipedia article Rabbit on 30 July 2007.

Graham fluffled his fur and gave Baggly a weak smile.

2013, Tony Beck, The Quest of Millie Blackbeard, page 69:


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.


rdr

(Wikimedia jargon) Abbreviation of redirect.


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.


wikifarm

Educators interested in experimenting with wiki projects should check out the many “wikifarms” that host wikis for free or for a small fee.

2005 September, Jeffrey Hastings, “Cool Tools”, in School Library Journal, volume 51, number 9, page 45, column 2:

Wikifarms offer wiki software and hosting services for those who do not have the facilities or technical ability to create and host their own wiki.

2006, John Marshall Baker, Internet: Systems and Applications, St. Paul, Minn.: EMCParadigm, →ISBN, page 274:

We reviewed a range of wikifarms for suitability for our department’s needs. Methods: We referred to the list of wikifarms as listed in Wikipedia. By trial and comparison, we identified the features necessary for a departmental wiki. We selected a wikifarm based on these criteria.

2008 June, S. Shenoy, M.W. Lim, “[Scata-Esctaic 2007: Lecture Abstracts] Selecting a Departmental Wiki Solution – Cardiff’s Experience”, in Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, page 252, column 2:

Wowpedia.org is a project fork of Wowwiki.com. […] This forking occurred in October 2010 after a dispute between most of the Wowwiki administration—including the wider community—and Wikia, the wikifarm hosting Wowwiki.

2014 November, Rik Hunter, “Hypersocial-Interactive Writing: An Audience of Readers-As-Writers”, in Literacy in Composition Studies, volume 2, number 2, →DOI, page 40:

Popular knowledge graphs such as DBpedia and YAGO are built from Wikipedia, and therefore similar in coverage. In contrast, Wikifarms like Fandom contain Wikis for specific topics, which are often complementary to the information contained in Wikipedia, and thus DBpedia and YAGO.

2018, Sven Hertling, Heiko Paulheim, “DBkWik: A Consolidated Knowledge Graph from Thousands of Wikis”, in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge (ICBK), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, →DOI:


dicdef

(Wikimedia jargon) Short for dictionary definition.


good article

From good + article. Originates from online wiki and encyclopedia Wikipedia, 2005.

(wiki jargon) A content entry on an online wiki that has been peer-reviewed by the wiki's users (editors) as being of proficient or exceptional quality, worthy of a separate classification/designation above regular articles.


Wikigroaning

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Blend of Wikipedia + groaning. Coined by Jon Hendren in a 2007 post on Something Awful (see quotation below).

We go Wikigroaning on the SA forums from time to time and feel confident enough to share the fruits of our latest outing with the public. We're pretty proud of some of these. Enjoy!

2007 June 5, Jon Hendren, “The Art of Wikigroaning”, in Something Awful, archived from the original on 2024-01-14:

The superabundance of less-than-prized information on the site has led to a phenomenon called "wiki-groaning," which involves comparing the length of seemingly disparate articles to humorous effect. Lightsaber Combat beats out Modern Warfare, for example, and John Locke, the character from the TV show "Lost," edges out the other John Locke, whoever he was.

2008 March 16, Noam Cohen, “Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-26:

And then there is the point made by wiki-groaning, the practice of comparing the length of Wikipedia articles to comic effect. For example "Lightsaber Combat" beats out "Modern Warfare."

2010 September 5, Ced Kurtz, “TechMan: Falling encyclopedia book sales squeeze publishers”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, P.A.: Block Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-04-05:

It is true, as commentators on Wikigroaning have often observed, that the often ludicrous disproportion of trivial Wikipedia articles does not undermine the authority of more substantive articles because there is no shortage of bytes in the Wikipedia universe.

2014, Thomas Leitch, Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age, Baltimore, M.D.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 77:

(neologism, humorous) The act of comparing two similar Wikipedia articles, one considered generally useful and the other primarily appealing to nerdy interests, and observing that (to one's disappointment) the latter is significantly longer and more professionally written.

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dewikification

(wiki jargon) The removal of wiki markup formatting, such as internal links.


Wikidatian

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WikiCite provides a home for participants from a broad range of geographies and professions — librarians, developers, GLAM practitioners, data modelers, ethnographers, and Wikidatians — who are interested in improving the citation practices and infrastructure for free knowledge.

2021 August 17, Phoebe Ayers, Samuel Klein, “The Invisible Citation Commons”, in Commonplace, →DOI, archived from the original on 2024-07-14, page 3:


speedy deletion

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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.