Wikinews:Glossary
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This is a list of phrases and abbreviations commonly used on Wikinews. Still incomplete — please contribute!
A edit
accredited reporter edit
- n. a user permitted to represent oneself as a freelance reporter for Wikinews.
admin edit
- abbrev. Shortened form of administrator.
administrator edit
- n. A user with extra responsibilities to protect and delete pages, edit interface messages, and block users from editing, amongst others.
AGF edit
- abbrev. An abbreviation for 'assume good faith', a policy on many Wikimedia projects, but that has no bearing on Wikinews.
anonymous user edit
- n. A user who is not logged in, generally identifiable by their IP address.
article edit
- n. A wiki page in the main namespace written about a news event.
AWB edit
- abbrev. Shorthand for 'AutoWikiBrowser', a semi-automated editing program.
B edit
ban edit
- n. A more-or-less permanent revocation of the right to edit, cf. block.
bot edit
- n. A user that has its edits, by default, hidden from Recent Changes, especially an automated user. The bot right is given by bureaucrats.
block edit
- n. A technical temporary revocation of the right to edit.
- v. To temporarily revoke a technical editing right from a user. Distinct from a ban.
bureaucrat edit
C edit
chapter edit
- n. A local country-specific version of the Foundation.
CheckUser edit
- n. An identified user with the ability to view IP addresses of other non-anonymous users.
checkuser edit
- v. To view the IP address of a non-anonymous user.
correct edit
- v. (Wikinews) To retrospectively add a {{correction}} notice to an article, to highlight a mistake made during the publication process.
'crat edit
- abbrev. Shortened form of bureaucrat. Often spelt without the preceding apostrophe.
D edit
de-admin edit
- v. Less common synonym of desysop.
delete edit
- v. To make a page or revision hidden to all but administrators.
desysop edit
- v. To revoke or rescind the elevated rights of an administrators.
E edit
Easy Peer Review edit
- n. A tool used to automate the publication process on English Wikinews.
editor edit
- n. (obs. chiefly Wikinews) A reviewer.
- n. Someone who edits a page.
EzPR edit
- abbrev. Shorthand for Easy Peer Review.
F edit
Foundation edit
- n. Shorthand for the Wikimedia Foundation.
G edit
gadget edit
- n. A snippet of JavaScript and/or CSS, defined by project administrators, that can be toggled on and off in one's preferences.
H edit
hide edit
- v. To selectively delete a revision from a page history by an administrator or oversighter.
I edit
identify edit
- v. To disclose one's real name and date of birth to the Foundation. A pre-requisite of gaining access to non-public data.
L edit
lede edit
- n. The first paragraph of an article.
M edit
Manual of Style edit
- n. Alternative phrase describing the style guide.
MediaWiki edit
MediaWiki installation edit
- n. An installation of MediaWiki on a site.
N edit
NPOV edit
- abbrev. Shorthand for Neutral Point of View, a central tenet of most Wikimedia projects.
O edit
Office edit
- n. Colloquialism for the Wikimedia Foundation, especially its legal department.
oversight edit
- v. To permanently erase an edit from the edit history, only accessible via direct database access by a developer.
- n. The technical right to perform oversight, given to an oversighter.
oversighter edit
- n. A user able to oversight an edit. A user must be identified to the Foundation to become an oversighter.
P edit
POV edit
- abbrev.An abbreviation of 'point of view'.
POVior edit
- n. A portmanteau of POV + warrior; a user who, generally aggressively, presents xyr point of view to the exclusion of others; cf. NPOV
- v. To push a specific point of view, especially to consciously violate the neutral point of view in articles.
Q edit
queue edit
- n. Shorthand for the review queue.
R edit
review edit
- v. To check an article prior to publication, by an independent third party. Generally involves fact-checking and style formatting.
reviewer edit
- (Wikinews) n. A user with the ability to sight pages prior to publication.
review queue edit
- (Wikinews) n. The list of articles currently requiring review before publication.
S edit
salt edit
- v. To protect a title from being created.
shortcut edit
- n. A metaspace redirect that forms a quick way of reaching a certain page, ex. WN:WC.
steward edit
- n. A user who has complete access to the wiki interface on all Wikimedia wikis, including access to change all user-rights of users.
style guide edit
- n. A list of standards an article must follow before it can be published.
sysop edit
- cont. The technical name for an administrator, derived from the phrase 'system operator'.
T edit
template edit
- n. A standardised boilerplate for formatting or text which may be included in multiple wiki pages.
transclude edit
- v. Automated including of the contents of one wiki page into another via the MediaWiki software. Templates are transcluded.
transclusion edit
- n. A specific instance of transcluding.
U edit
user edit
- n. Someone who uses Wikinews, but commonly more specifically a person who edits, especially one who has logged in.
V edit
vandal edit
- n. Someone who vandalises.
vandalism edit
- n. A bad-faith edit.
W edit
wiki edit
- n. A freely-editable website.
Wikimedia Foundation edit
- tm. The charity that runs websites such as Wikipedia, Wikinews and MediaWiki. Never 'WikiMedia'.
WMF edit
- abbrev. Shorthand for the Wikimedia Foundation.
X edit
xe edit
- pron. A gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun.
xyr edit
- possess. A gender-neutral way of saying 'his/her'.