User:Gerdami/Glossary

A

 * Anchor:a bookmark within a page
 * AoA:Articles of Association French:Statuts
 * API:Application Programming Interface.
 * API sandbox:page to experiment with the MediaWiki web service API.
 * Autoconfirmed users:User accounts that are more than four days old and have made at least 10 edits.
 * Autopatrolled users:Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled.

B

 * Board Secretary: French Secrétaire du Conseil
 * board>Special:MyLanguage/Board|Board of Directors:the governing body of Miraheze Limited.
 * Book sources:the search page for a book's ISBN reference. Example Special:BookSources/1118050665. Hint: put a Book sources page into your Project: namespace to further customize the Book Source landing page.
 * Bots:short for "robot", a script that makes repetitious automated edits according to a preset algorithm.
 * Bug:software error. French: un bogue
 * Bureaucrat:a MediaWiki Administrator who has been entrusted with promoting users to Administrator status

C

 * Cascading Style Sheet (CSS): to personalize the look and feel of your wiki
 * CheckUser:see roles at Miraheze
 * CoC:Code of Conduct: (fr) Code de conduite
 * CoCC:Code of Conduct Commission: (fr) Commission du Code de conduite
 * Commons:A shared media repository located at Main Page with thousands of freely usable files for all Miraheze wikis.
 * Community noticeboard: noticeboard for community discussions
 * Consideration: French: contrepartie pour un travail
 * Content Policy:see Policies below.
 * contrib>Special:MyLanguage/Contributing|Contributing
 * Copyright:see Creative Commons below.
 * Creative Commons:refers to either the Creative Commons free licenses; or to the organization that develops the licenses. See also Licenses below
 * Custom domain:allows the use of www.mycustomdomain.com instead of mysubdomain.miraheze.org
 * Customization:see Cascading Style Sheet, Custom domain above, Favicon or Logo]] below.

D

 * Data Request Process:changes to personal data that the user cannot modify through the preferences page. See also Privacy Policy.
 * Director:see roles at Miraheze
 * Discord:an American VoIP, instant messaging and digital distribution platform designed for creating communities.
 * DMCA: Digital Millennium Copyright Act
 * donate>Special:Mylanguage/Donate|Donate:donations are the primary way Miraheze is funded.
 * Dormancy Policy:see Policies below.

E

 * email address:we guess you have one ;-)
 * :creates an XML file of one or many pages of a wiki.
 * Extensions:additional pieces of software that help you enhance the functionalities of your wiki.

F

 * Farmer log
 * FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
 * Favicon:website's icon that appears in the browser's address bar
 * Feature request:see Phabricator

G

 * gw>Special:Mylanguage/Gazetteer of wikis|Gazetteer of wikis:unofficial list of wikis hosted at Miraheze. French:Répertoire des wikis
 * GDPR:the EU General Data Protection Regulation
 * Git:a distributed version-control system for tracking changes in source code during software development.
 * GitHub:American multinational corporation that provides hosting for software development and version control using Git.
 * Global Sysops:users who assist Stewards in supporting the community and working with communities to address issues facing them locally as well as cleaning up vandalism, preventing it when possible and enforcing Miraheze's global policies. See also Sysops below.

I

 * :command to import pages from an existing wiki via an XML dump file created with the Export command
 * Interface administrators:users that have the ability to edit in the MediaWiki: namespace on this wiki and to edit the look and feel through Javascript and CSS.
 * Interwiki:A link to a sister project; this can be an interlanguage link to a corresponding article in a different language, or a link to a project such as Wikibooks, Meta, etc. The abbreviations iw or i/w are often used in edit summaries when an interwiki link has been added or changed.
 * Interwiki administrators:users who can edit the Interwiki table upon request.
 * Interwiki data:table of available Interwikis links with forward and transclude flags.
 * IP Address:IP addresses are used for non logged users. Special:GlobalBlockList lists globally blocked IP addresses.
 * irc>Special:Mylanguage/IRC|IRC:see Wikipedia, [[w:Internet Relay Chat|Internet Relay Chat].

J

 * Javascript:scripting language that allows further customization of your wiki page

L

 * Legal Notice:French:Mention légale
 * Licenses:By default, your wiki comes with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Learn how you can change your wiki license.
 * Logo:custom image at top left of webpage

M

 * MediaWiki:the free and open-source wiki engine of which is based Wikipedia.
 * meta-admins>Special:Mylanguage/Meta:Administrators|Meta Administrators
 * Miraheze:compound word made of the names of stars Mira & Heze.
 * Miraheze policies:see Policies below.
 * mw:Short for MediaWiki

N

 * Namespace:special sections a wiki followed by a colon ":" such as Mediawiki:, Meta:, Help:, Special:etc. unlike actual content pages that are not prefixed by a namespace. See also MediaWiki's Help:Namespaces. French:espace de noms.
 * NDA:non-disclosure agreement French:

O

 * OAuth applications: mainly Bots applications.
 * Oversight:see roles at Miraheze
 * Oversighters:people with the power of Oversight.

P

 * Patrollers:users who have the ability to mark other users' edits as patrolled.
 * phab>Special:Mylanguage/Phabricator|Phabricator: Website to track bug reports and feature requests for Miraheze
 * Policies
 * policy>Special:Mylanguage/Category:Global_policies|Miraheze policies
 * cp>Special:MyLanguage/Content Policy|Content Policy
 * dp>Special:Mylanguage/Dormancy Policy|Dormancy Policy
 * privacy-policy>Special:Mylanguage/Privacy Policy|Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy is common to all wikis hosted at Mirahze, link at bottom left of all pages. See also GDPR above.

R

 * Redirect:a page that send the use to another page. Instead of a text, the page contains the following code: #REDIRECT actual page name.
 * Roles at Miraheze:
 * CheckUser
 * Director
 * Oversight:allows edits to be hidden further from the permanent historical record
 * Shell Access
 * Steward

S

 * Secretary of the Board:French:Secrétaire du Conseil d'administration
 * Security Review: French,Examen de sécurité
 * SEO:Search Engine Optimization French:optimisation pour les moteurs de recherche, appelé également référencement naturel ou organique
 * Spam:unwanted email French:courriel indésirable ou pourriel
 * Shell Access::see roles at Miraheze
 * SSL:Secure Sockets Layer
 * Steward::see roles at Miraheze
 * stewards>Special:Mylanguage/Stewards|Stewards
 * Stewards' noticeboard: noticeboard for requests that require Stewards', or, in a limited number of circumstances, Global Sysops', intervention
 * SUL: ???
 * Sysadmins:short for System administrators
 * sysadmin>Special:Mylanguage/System administrators|System administrators
 * Sysops:short for System Operators

T

 * Tab:at top of page: Page, Discussion, Read, Edit, View History, ...
 * Talk:tab at top of page to discuss the content of a page. French:Discussion ?
 * Technical Team: French équipe technique
 * Template: a way of automatically including the contents of one page within another page. Parameters can be passed through.
 * Terms:French:Conditions
 * tos>Special:Mylanguage/Terms of Use|Terms of Use:the Terms of Use are common to all wikis hosted at Miraheze, see link at bottom of any page. French:Conditions d'utilisation
 * Transclude or transclusion:include the contents of a page into another page. Mostly template pages

V

 * Miraheze Vacancies: (fr) Postes vacants chez Miraheze

W

 * Wiki:a collaborative website that is editable by its viewers:French, Site Web collaboratif où chaque internaute visiteur peut participer à la rédaction du contenu.
 * Meta:Wiki creators: French: Créateurs de wikis
 * Meta:Guide du créateur de wikis: Guide du créateur de wikis
 * WikiDiscover: a tool that allows to discover wikis by language and category
 * Wiki farm: a collection of wikis hosted at Miraheze

X

 * XML dump file: file created by the Export command in a view of importing pages to another wiki