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This is a glossary of commonly used Wikipedia terms. For more help, see Wikipedia:Help, Wikipedia:FAQ and Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ.
- Article
- An encyclopedia entry. All articles are pages, but not all pages are articles. See Wikipedia:What is an article.
- Data dump
- To import material from outside sources into Wikipedia without editing, formating and linking. This is frowned upon by most Wikipedians. See Wikify.
- Disambiguation
- The process of resolving the conflict that occurs when articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title. See Wikipedia:Disambiguation
- Edit war
- Two or more parties continually making their prefered changes to a page, and undoing the changes they don't agree with. Generally, an edit war is the result of an argument on a talk page that could not be resolved. See Edit wars.
- Edit conflict
- Two or more parties both attempt to save different edits to the same page. See Wikipedia:edit conflicts.
- GFDL
- GNU Free Documentation License. Wikipedia articles are released under this license (see wikipedia:copyrights for details).
- GPL
- GNU General Public License. Wikipedia's software is released under this license.
- Google test
- Running sections or titles of articles through the Google search engine for various purposes. The two most common are to check for copyright violations or to determine which term among several is the most widely used.
- Orphan
- A page with no links from other pages. You can view lists of orphaned articles and images. See wikipedia:Orphan
- Page
- Any individual topic within Wikipedia. Pages include articles, talk pages, documentation and special pages.
- Meta-Wikipedia
- A separate wiki (http://meta.wikipedia.org) used to discuss general Wikipedia matters. Sometimes erroneously called "Metapedia". See Meta-Wikipedia.
- Namespace
- A way to classify pages. Wikipedia has namespaces for encyclopedia articles, pages about Wikipedia (Wikipedia:), user pages (User:), special pages (Special:) and talk pages (Talk:, Wikipedia talk:, and User talk:). See Wikipedia:Namespace.
- Newbie test (also "newb test" or "noob test")
- An edit made by a newcomer to Wikipedia, just to see if "Edit this page" really does what it sounds like. Use Wikipedia:sandbox
- NPOV
- Neutral point of view, or the agreement to report subjective opinions objectively, so as not to cause edit wars between opposing sides.
- POV
- Literally, a point of view, but often used negatively as an adjective to indicate bias.
- Rambot
- A script written by User:Ram-Man to enter United States geographical data. See the rambot FAQ.
- Redirect
- A page title which, when requested, merely sends the reader to another page. This is used for synonyms and ease of linking. For example, "impressionist" might redirect to "impressionism". See Wikipedia:Redirect.
- Subpage
- A page connected to a parent page. Pages in the Talk: and User: namespaces can have subpages: see Wikipedia:Subpages in the user and talk namespaces. However, do not use subpages in the main article space.
- Talk page
- A page reserved for discussion. All pages within Wikipedia (except talk pages themselves!) have talk pages attached to them. See wikipedia:talk page
- User page
- A personal page for Wikipedians. Most people use their pages to introduce themselves and to keep various personal notes and lists. They are also used by Wikipedians to communicate with each other via the user talk pages. A user page has a name of the form [[User:Jimbo Wales]]
- Wikify
- To format using Wiki markup (as opposed to plain text or HTML) and add internal links to material, incorporating it into the whole of Wikipedia.
- Wiki markup
- Code like HTML, but simplified and more convenient, for example not <b> and </b>, but in both cases ''', see Wikipedia:How to edit a page.
- Wikipedian
- A contributor to Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Wikipedians.
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