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;Accidental link : A #Wikilink where the displayed text is the name of the target article. To display text other than the name of the target article, use a #Piped link.

;Admin : Short for . A user with extra technical privileges who does housework. : Also used: #Sysop, #Janitor.

;Advertorial : Describing an article that exists more to advertise or promote a product, company, service or site than to provide encyclopedic information on it.

;AfD : The page. : See also for explanation of some terms used on AfD.

;AGF : Abbreviation for assume good faith , a guideline whereby one should not assume that a bad edit was done maliciously. See .

;Anchor : An . Note that anchors currently have no effect in redirects.

;AOTW : .

;ArbCom : Abbreviation for

;Arbitration : The final step in the process. : See also .

;Archive : A page, for obsolete historical material. : See also: .

;Article : An encyclopedia entry. All articles are pages, but not all pages are articles. : See also .

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;Ban : Banning is the extreme, last resort action by which someone is prevented from editing Wikipedia for a prolonged or indeterminate length of time. Reason for banning is usually a long history of biased edits, persistent adding of incorrect or doubtful material, refusal to cooperate with others, or extreme incivility and threats. If someone is banned, their username is blocked, and any username or IP that is with great likelihood identified as being the same person can be blocked without any further reason. See also: #Block.

;Be Bold : The exhortation that users should try to fix mistakes in articles themselves, rather than complain about them. See .

;BEEFSTEW : A proposed rubric that some editors use for judging the quality of articles on high schools (and, by extension, elementary schools). See .

;BJAODN : Abbreviation for .

;Blanking : Removing all content from a page. Newcomers often do this accidentally. On the other hand, if blanking an article is done in bad faith, it is #Vandalism . If blanking is done to a vandalised brand-new page, it is maintenance, and the page will be deleted by an #Admin within a few hours if no dispute arises. should be added to the blanked page to draw attention to it, rather than just blanking it. Newcomers often mistake blanking for deletion .

;Block : Action by a sysop, removing from a certain IP-number or username the ability to edit Wikipedia. Usually done against addresses that have done vandalism or against users who have been banned. See also: #Ban.

;Boilerplate text : A standard message which can be added to an article using a . For example, is expanded to the following:

This article is a Wikipedia by [:|action=edit}} expanding it] .

: See also .

;Bot : A program that automatically or semi-automatically adds or edits Wikipedia-pages. : See also .

;Broken link : Also used: edit link, red link. : A link to a nonexistent page, usually colored . may display this way depending on your settings.

;Broken redirect : Redirect to a non-existing page. Common opinion is that these should be removed.

;Bureaucrat : A Wikipedia Administrator who has been entrusted with promoting users to sysops. : See also .

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;Cabal : A secretive organization which some Wikipedians claim is ultimately responsible for the development of Wikipedia. Supposedly the Cabal acts to stifle dissent and impose their private who take action against users for seemingly illogical or immature reasons are often claimed to be acting on behalf of the Cabal. : Compare with #Troll. : See also .

;Category : A category is a collection of pages automatically formed by the Wikipedia servers by analysing category tags in articles. Category tags are in the form .

;CfD : The page.

;Chatty : A term used for articles which seem to attempt a conversation with the reader. Chatty articles may need .

;Cleanup : The process of repairing articles that are ungrammatical, are poorly formatted, etc. Cleanup generally requires only editing skills, as opposed to the specialized knowledge that is more often called for by . : See also: .

;Comment out : To hide from normal display whilst retaining the material for editors to see. This is done by inserting the characters at the end. These character strings are used to delimit comments in HTML code.

;Community Portal : One of Wikipedia s main pages. It can often be found on the quickbar (on the left side in most skins), and is a page that lists the collaboration of the week, outstanding tasks that need to be addressed, and several other useful bits of information and resources. The Community Portal is useful for picking an article or topic to work on or read.

;Contribs : Short for contributions. These are the edits that a user has made.

;Copyedit : A change to an article that only affects formatting, grammar, and other presentational aspects.

;Copyvio : Also used: copyviol. : Copyright violation. Usually used in an edit summary when some copyrighted material has been added to Wikipedia. : See also .

;COTW : , an article needing improvement that is selected by vote to be the subject of widespread cooperative editing for a week.

;CSB : or, more rarely, an adjective for an topic of concern to the WikiProject, e.g. This doesn t seem to be a CSB article.

;Cut and paste move : Moving a page by taking the text of the page, and put it into the edit window for the second page. Generally considered worse than the move page option, because it causes the page and its edit history to be in different places. Cut and paste moves can be fixed by administrators. : See also .

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;dab : See #Disambiguation.

;Data dump : To import material from outside sources into Wikipedia without editing, formatting and linking. This is frowned upon by most . : See also #Wikify.

;Dead-end page : Page that has no links to existing other pages, except perhaps interlanguage links. lists them, but this function is disabled in some Wikimedia projects.

;De-admin : See #De-sysop.

;De-bold : Also used: un-bold. : To remove a phrase s bold typeface, because it is not the first reference to the title or a synonym of the topic (which should be bold), or that it is not the topic of the article at all. Common situations when one would de-bold include: bold foreign words (should instead be italicized) and bold Wikilinks (which, according to current , should be plain).

;Deletionist : Someone who is in favor of deleting some pages that others prefer to keep. Often used as a derogatory term. The term inclusionist for the opposite party is less used. : See also .

;Deorphan : To make a page no longer an orphan. : See also

;Deprecated : Techie-speak for tolerated or supported but not recommended (i.e. beware: may well be on the way out) . In real English, the word means deplored or strongly disapproved of .

;De-sysop : Also used: De-admin. : Take away someone s sysop status. Used very rarely, in cases where someone has misused their sysop powers. : See also .

;Developer : A user who can make direct changes to the Wikipedia software and database. : See also for a list of developers and further information.

;De-Wikify : Also used: Un-Wikify. : To remove (de-link) a #Wikify of an article. This can be done to remove #Self-link or excessive common-noun Wikification.

;Dicdef : Also used: Dictdef. : Short for a dictionary definition. This term is commonly used on when referring to an article that is more similar to a dictionary article than an encyclopedia one. : See also .

;Diff : The difference between two versions of page, as displayed using the Page history feature, or from , so you can make a link by copying and pasting it - for instance when discussing a change on an article s talk page. : See also .

;Disambiguation : Also used: dab, disambig. : The process of resolving the conflict that occurs when articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title. : See also .

;Disambiguation page : A page that contains various meanings of a word, and refers to the pages where the various meanings are defined.

;Double redirect : A #Redirect which leads to another redirect. Counterintuitively, this will not bring one to the final destination, so it needs to be eliminated by linking directly to the target redirect.

;Dupe : Short for a duplicate article. Often used when identifying a duplicate page that needs to be #Merge with another.

;DYK : An abbreviation for .

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;Edit conflict : Two or more parties both attempt to save different edits to the same page at the same time. The later edit doesn t take effect, but the editor is prompted to merge their edit with the earlier one. : See also .

;Edit link : See #Broken link.

;Edit summary : The contents of the Summary: field below the edit box on the Edit this page page. : See also .

;Edit war : Also used: revert war. : Two or more parties continually making their preferred 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 also .

;External link : Also used: ext. ln, ext lk, or extlink. : A link to a website not owned by Wikimedia. The alternatives are an internal link, wikilink or free link within Wikipedia, and an to a sister project. : See also .

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;FA : gets consensus for promotion.

;FAC : as one of the best in Wikipedia.

;FARC : whose featured status is considered for removal, either because the featured article criteria or the article itself changed.

;Fancruft : A , meaning a trivia article of interest only to hardcore fans of a specific film, television series, book, game, etc. Where the line is drawn is highly subjective and can be controversial. Often seen as an insult to those who ve contributed that information, and to others interested in the subject.

;Forest fire : A . : See also .

;Fork : A splitting of an entity to satisfy different groups of people - in Wikipedia, this can either mean a project-wide split, in which a group of users decides to take a project database and continue with it on their own site (which is perfectly legal under the #GFDL), or the split of an article, usually to a accommodate different #POV. The latter is often called a POV fork and generelly regarded as highly undesirable.

;Free link : A link pointing to another page within Wikipedia or its sister projects by using the wiki markup double square-brackets and . Sometimes they are referred to as wikilinks or internal links. Unless otherwise specified in a user s monobook.css, these links usually show up as blue if they are working and you haven t visited them before, red if they are broken, and purple if they are working and you have visited them before; note that they do not have the arrow symbol characteristic of an external link.

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;Geogre s Law : A law attributed to .

;GFDL : GNU Free Documentation License. Wikipedia articles are released under this license. : See also .

;Google test : Running sections or titles of articles through the Google search engine for various purposes. The four most common are to check for copyright violations, to determine which term among several is the most widely used, to decide whether a person is sufficiently famous to warrant an article or is simply engaging in vanity and to check whether a questionable and obscure topic is real (as opposed to the idiosyncratic invention of a particular individual). : See also .

;GPL : is released under this license.

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;History : All previous versions of an article, from its creation to its current state. Also called page history . : See also:

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;IfD :An abbreviation for .

;IANAL :An abbreviation for I Am Not A Lawyer, indicating that an editor is about to give their opinion on a legal matter as they understand it, although they are not qualified and probably don t fully understand the law in question. May be generalized to other professions, e.g. IANAD (doctor).

;Inclusionist : A user who is of the opinion that Wikipedia should contain as much information as possible, often regardless of presentation or notability. There are varying degrees of they come across, while more moderate ones merely express their desire for a wide variety of topics to be covered, even if they do not fit the classical criteria for inclusion in an encyclopedia, or if the articles in question have quality problems.

;Infobox :A consistently formatted table which is present in articles with a common subject. See for a how-to guide. : See also: #Taxobox.

;Internal link : See #Free_link.

;Interwiki : A link to a sister project; this can be an in Wikipedia, or a link to a project such as Wikibooks, Meta, etc.

;ITN :An abbreviation for

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;Janitor : See #Admin.

;Jimbo : Jimmy Wales, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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;Language link : See #Interwiki.

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;m : On the .

;Main Page : The page to which every user not specifying an article is redirected. The Main Page contains links to current events, presents certain articles (like a #FA of the day and links to Wikipedia s newest articles), and also serves as an entry point to browsing all articles by topic or other classification. Links to sister projects and other-language Wikipedias are also a prominent feature on the Main Page. Due to its high exposure, all content on the Main Page is #Protected page.

;Meat puppet : An account that is created only for the strengthening of another user s position in votes or discussions, but which is operated by another person, unlike a #Sock puppet (which is operated directly by the user in question). Meat puppets are treated exactly like sock puppets in most cases, making the distiction between them largely academical.

;Mediation : An attempt by a third party to resolve an edit war or other conflict between users. There exists a process. : See also: .

;MediaWiki : The software behind Wikipedia and its sister projects, as well as several projects not related to Wikimedia, and a namespace. : Compare with #Wikimedia. : See also .

;Merge : Taking the text of two pages, and turning it into a single page. See

;Mergist : A user who adheres to the principle of principles. A Mergist is of the opinion that while many topics merit inclusion, not every topic deserves its own article, and tries to combine these side topics into longer, less specific articles.

;Meta : A separate Wiki ([http://meta.wikipedia.org http://meta.wikipedia.org]) used to discuss general Wikipedia matters. In the past, this has been called Metapedia , Meta Wikipedia , Meta Wikimedia , and many other combinations. : See also .

;Meta page : Page that provides information about Wikipedia. Meta pages are more correctly referred to as pages. Meta pages should not be confused with a page on Meta-Wikimedia. : See also .

;Mirror : A website other than Wikipedia that uses content original to Wikipedia as a source for at least some of its content. : See also .

;Move : Changing the name and location of an article because of a misspelling, violation of naming convention, misnomer, or inaccuracy. Involves either renaming the page or moving it and constructing a redirect to keep the original link intact. : See also .

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;N : On the page, N (upper case, bold) indicates a new page or article.

;n/a : An abbreviation for new article , often used in edit summaries.

;Namespace : A way to classify pages. Wikipedia has namespaces for encyclopedia articles, pages about Wikipedia ( (Talk:, Wikipedia talk:, and User talk:), among others. : See also .

;Newbie test : Also used: newb test, noob test. : An edit made by a newcomer to Wikipedia, just to see if Edit this page really does what it sounds like. Newcomers should use for this purpose. : See also .

;Notice board : Also used: noticeboard. : A page which acts as a forum for a group of users, who use it to coordinate their editing. Most notice boards are by geographic location, like the .

;NPOV : , or the agreement to report subjective opinions objectively, so as not to cause edit wars between opposing sides. As a verb, to remove biased statements or slanted phrasing. As an adjective, it indicates that an article is in compliance with Wikipedia s NPOV policy.

;Nupedia : A Wikipedia predecessor project that shut down in 2003. It is currently inactive and there are no plans to resurrect it. : See also: .

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;Open tasks : A #Template (found at ) that lists several more or less janitorial things to do. It is found on the #Community Portal as well as on many #User page.

;Orphan : A page with no links from other pages. You can view lists of .

:: See also .

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;Page : Any individual topic within Wikipedia; the .

;Patent nonsense :A humorous pejorative applied to articles that are either completely unintelligible or totally irrelevant. See .

;PD :

;Peer Review :A request to have fellow wikipedians review and help improve an article. Wikipedia has a page specifically for posting such a request and offering up your work for review. See .

;Personal attack :A comment that is not directed at content, but insults or threatens another editor (or a group of editors) personally. To maintain a friendly and productive atmosphere, personal attacks are forbidden per Wikipedia #Policy and may be grounds for #Block in serious and/or repeated cases. : See also:

;Phase I : The wiki software UseModWiki. Wikipedia used this software prior to January 25, 2002.

;Phase II : The wiki software written by ).

;Phase III : A rewritten and improved version of the Phase II software. It was eventually renamed to MediaWiki. Wikipedia currently uses MediaWiki version 1.6alpha [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version]. : See also .

;Phase IV : A dreamy proposal for the next generation of Wikipedia software made back when complete rewrites were in vogue. Development is now focused on incremental progress. : See also .

;Piped link : A link where the displayed text is not the name of the target article. Such links are created using the pipe character | e.g. Target article. The pipe trick is a software feature that generates the displayed text for you in certain circumstances. : See also .

;Pokémon test : A heuristic for assessing the relevance or legitimacy of prospective article topics, which holds that any topic more notable than the most obscure species of Pokémon may deserve a Wikipedia article.

;POTD :

;POV : , as in That reply was POV, not neutral. .

;POV warrior : A wiki editor who aggressively distorts coverage of certain topics to suit his/her biases despite community norms of neutrality. An affliction that especially infests Wikipedia.

;Project namespace : The dedicated to providing information about wikipedia.

;Protected page : A page that cannot be edited except by sysops. Usually this is done to cool down an edit war. : See also .

;The Pump : Also used: VP. : A nickname for .

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;Quarto :Wikimedia Quarto is a multilingual quarterly newsletter published by the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. It can be read online [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Quarto here].

;Quickpoll : A poll among Wikipedia regulars on issues that need to be quickly resolved, such as the banning of problematic users. Also used as verb: to quickpoll , meaning to hold a quickpoll . Considered obsolete.

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;Rambot : A controversial geographical data for tens of thousands of cities, notable and otherwise. : See also .

;Random page : The Random page link is on the left of each page for most . It will take you to a Wikipedia article that is chosen by a computer algorithm without any deliberate pattern or meaning to the choice.

;RC :An abbreviation for #Recent changes

;Re-creation : A posting either of the same text of a deleted article by a new user, or of the same text or different text of a deleted article by the original creator.

;Recent changes :A dynamically generated page (found at , which announce changes in realtime.

;Redirect : Also used: redir. : 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 also .

;Red link : See #Broken link.

;Refactor : The act of restructuring a document, usually applied to the ordering and summarizing of #Talk page. : See also:

;Reincarnation :A new user account created by a #Ban user. See #sock puppet.

;Revert : An edit that reverses changes made by someone else. : See also

;Revert war : See #Edit war.

;RfA : Can mean , depending on the context. The latter is frequently abbreviated RfAr to avoid the ambiguity.

;RfC : Request for comment, part of the process. A request for comment is an informal process for soliciting input from Wikipedians about a question of article content or a user s conduct. : See also: .

;RfD : The page.

;RfM : Request for process. : See also: .

;rm : Remove. Used in edit summaries to indicate that a particular piece of text or formatting has been deleted.

;Rogue admin : Accusatory term for a Wikipedia #administrator, suggesting that the accused person systematically abuses their administrative access. Such accusations are rarely found to be particularly productive.

;Rollback : To change a page back to the version before the last edit. Sysops have special tools to do this more easily.

;rv : Revert. An edit summary indicating that the page has been reverted to a previous version, often because of . : See also .

;rvv : Revert because of vandalism. See rv above.

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;s/word1/word2/ : Replace word1 with word2 . Used in edit summaries. It is a reference to the command for find and replace in languages such as Sed and Perl. s/word1/word2/g means replace all occurrences of word1 with word2 ( g stands for global ).

;Sandbox : A .

;Section editing : Using one of the [edit] links to the right of each section s title, one can get an edit window containing only the section of the page that s below the [edit] link. This makes it (hopefully) easier to find the exact spot where one wants to edit, and helps you avoiding an under the Enable section editing via [edit] links option.

;Self-link : A Wikilink contained in an article that points the reader to that same article, e.g. linking Vice President in the article Vice President . Such links are automatically displayed as strongly emphasised text rather than links, but the more complex case of a link which redirects to the same article is not, and should be de-#Wikify.

;Skin : The appearance theme in . Currently, five are available: Standard, Nostalgia, Cologne Blue, Monobook, and MySkin.

;Sock puppet : Another user account created secretly by an existing wikipedian, generally to manufacture the illusion of support in a vote or argument. Also, particularly on #VfD, a friend of an existing Wikipedian who has created an account solely for the purpose of supporting that wikipedian in a vote (this special case is often called a #Meat puppet). It is not always possible to tell the difference. : See also .

;Soft redirect : A very short article or page that essentially points the reader in the direction of another page. Used in cases where a normal redirect is inappropriate for various reasons (e.g. it is a cross-wiki redirect) : See also .

;sp : Short for spelling correction . Used in .

;Speedy delete : Deletion of a page without prior discussion. Pages can be speedily deleted only under very specific circumstances; see for those.

;Split : Separating a single page into two or more pages.

;Steward : An #Administrator who has been empowered to change any user s status, including granting and revoking Administrator status and granting #Bureaucrat status. : See also .

;Stub : An article usually consisting of one short paragraph or less. : See also .

;Strike out : Placement of text in strikethrough (HTML <s></s>) tags. This is very rarely used in articles, but is relatively common in votes and discussions when a contributor changes his opinion. As not to cause confusion, the outdated comments are stricken out (like this). Generally, one should strike out only one s own comments.

;Sub-stub : A very short #Stub. For example, an article that is no more than a simple definition ( An airplane is a type of winged flying vehicle ). The practice of tagging short articles as substubs has been deprecated - tag them as stubs instead. : See also .

;Subpage : A page connected to a parent page. You can only create subpages in certain namespaces. Do not use subpages in the main article space. : See also .

;Sysop : See #Admin.

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;Talk page : A page reserved for discussion. Very confusingly, the link to a talk page is labelled discussion . All pages within Wikipedia (except talk pages themselves!) have talk pages attached to them. : See also .

;Taxobox : A type of #Infobox, a taxobox is a taxonomy table positioned at the right side of an entry for a species or organism (or for a genus or family), giving a chart of the Kingdom (biology), phylum (biology), etc. of the creature. Taxoboxes are also used for similar standardised tables. : See also .

;Template : A way of automatically including the contents of one page within another page, used for #Boilerplate text, navigational aids, etc. : See also: .

;TfD : The page.

;Transclusion :There are two main ways of using templates on articles: inclusion (accomplished by using ), and transclusion (). The former will include the content of Template Name on the fly whenever the article is loaded, while the latter will permanently insert the content of the template onto the article. Thus, using transclusion, if the template content is modified at a later date, the article s content will not change. :Transclusion is the preferred method for short-term, non-permanent notices, as it is less confusing, and even helps to lighten the load on the database.

;Translation : The English-language Wikipedia should have only pages in English. Non-English pages are subject to deletion unless translated. : See also: for requests for translations into English of pages from foreign-language Wikipedias.

;Transwiki : Move a page to another wiki, in particular Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource or [http://sep11.wikipedia.org sep11]. : See also .

;Troll : A user who incites or engages in disruptive behavior (internet troll). There are some people who just enjoy causing conflict, and there are those who make a hobby of it. However, these are few in number. Calling someone a troll in a dispute is a bad idea; it has an effect similar to Godwin s law – no further meaningful debate can be held. : Compare with #Cabal. : See also polarization (psychology).

;Tyop : A cute misspelling of typo. Used as an edit summary when correcting typos. : See also .

=U=

;Unencyclopedic : What should not be in Wikipedia; the term is highly debated and sometimes considered useless or tautological. : See also .

;Un-wiki : Going against the character of a Wiki. Usually, saying that something is un-wiki means that it makes editing more difficult or impossible.

;UseMod : See UseModWiki.

;Userfy : To turn a page in the article namespace into a user page or #Subpage.

;User page : A personal page for . : See also .

;umbrella nomination : A nomination (e.g. on ) that contains several items (e.g. categories) which normally are nominated individually.

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;Vandalbot : Some kind of #bot being used for vandalism or spamming. Recognizable by the fact that one or a few IP-addresses make many similar clearly vandalist edits in a short time. In the worst cases these have created or vandalized hundreds of pages in several Wikipedias in a timespan of only minutes. : See also .

;Vandalism : Deliberate defacement of Wikipedia pages. This can be by deleting text or writing nonsense, bad language etcetera. The term is often incorrectly used to discredit the views of an opponent in edit wars. Vandalism can be reported at . : See also .

;Vanity page : A page in the article by most Wikipedians. Such articles are often suspected to be written by their subjects. : See also .

;VfD : Votes for Deletion , the previous name of , above)

;VfU : The page.

;Village pump : The main community forum of Wikipedia (found at ), where proposals, policy changes, technical problems and other internals are announced and discussed in front of a wider audience than a topic-specific page would have.

;VP : Shorthand for #Village pump.

=W=

;Watchlist : A set of pages selected by the user, who can then click on to see recent changes to those pages. : See also: .

;Wikibooks : A Wikipedia sister project that works to develop free textbooks, manuals, and other texts online. : See also Wikibooks.

;Wikibreak : Also used: Wikivacation. : When a . : See also .

;WikiFairy : Also used: Wiki faerie.

: It is the slang term for a wiki editor who beautifies wiki entries by organizing messy articles, and adding style, color and graphics. The efforts of a WikiFairies are normally welcome, though they do not necessarily create new articles or affect the substantive content of the articles they edit. WikiFairies are considered to be basically friendly, like WikiGnomes and unlike WikiGremlins. : See also .

;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. Noun: Wikification. Sometimes abbreviated wfy. : See also .

;WikiGnome : A Wikipedian who makes minor, helpful edits. : See also .

;Wikilink : A link to another Wikipedia page, as opposed to an .

;Wiki markup : Also used: wiki text, wikitext. : Code like HTML, but simplified and more convenient, for example bold instead of bold. It is the source code stored in the database and shown in the edit box. by the Wikipedia software is done in the wikitext, as opposed to searching by Google, which is done in the resulting text. The size of a page is the size of the wikitext. : See also .

;Wikimedia : Properly Wikimedia Foundation Inc., a non-profit organisation that provides a legal, financial and organisational framework for Wikipedia and its sister projects and provides the necessary hardware. : Compare with #MediaWiki. : See also Wikimedia.

;Wikipedian : Also used: Wikipedist, Wikipede. : A contributor to Wikipedia. : See also .

;Wikiportal : Pages intended to be the main pages for Wikipedians interested in a specific area of knowledge, helping both to find the information on the specific topic and to develop articles connected with it. : See also .

;WikiProject : An attempt to standardise the content and formatting of a particular category of articles using an agreed template. : See also .

;Wikiquette : The Wikipedia etiquette of working with others on Wikipedia. : See also .

;Wikiquote :A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online collection of quotations. : See also Wikiquote.

;Wikislap : Providing someone with the URL of a Wikipedia article when they express a lack of knowledge about a particular topic.

;Wikisource : A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online compendium of primary source texts. : See also Wikisource.

;Wikispam : Articles or sections created to promote a product or other can also include adding extraneous links to promote an outside site, particularly for commercial purposes.

;Wikistress : Personal stress or tension induced by editing Wikipedia, or more often by being involved in minor conflict with another editor. Some users maintain a Wikistress meter on their user page. See

;Wiktionary : A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online dictionary of every language. : See also Wiktionary.

;WMF : See Wikimedia Foundation.

;WP : Common abbreviation for .

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;en: / de: / ja: / etc. : The English / German / Japanese / etc.-language Wikipedia. Often used in edit summaries to indicate changes to .