User:Gerdami/Glossary

A

 * Anchor:a bookmark within a page
 * Autoconfirmed users:???
 * Autopatrolled users:Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled.
 * API:Application Programming Interface.
 * API sandbox:page to experiment with the MediaWiki web service API.

B

 * 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.
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * GDPR:the EU General Data Protection Regulation
 * 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

 * 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 [[#P|Policies] below.

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.

O

 * OAuth applications: mainly Bots applications.
 * Oversight:allows edits to be hidden further from the permanent historical record.
 * 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.

S

 * SSL:Secure Sockets Layer
 * stewards>Special:Mylanguage/Stewards|Stewards
 * Stewards' noticeboard: noticeboard for requests that require Stewards', or, in a limited number of circumstances, Global Sysops', intervention
 * sysadmin>Special:Mylanguage/System administrators|System administrators
 * Sysops:short for System Operators

T

 * Template: a way of automatically including the contents of one page within another page. Parameters can be passed through.
 * Terms
 * 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.
 * Transclude or transclusion:include the contents of a page into another page. Mostly template pages

W

 * Wiki:a collaborative website that is editable by its viewers
 * 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