This is a glossary of terms commonly used on Wikipedia.

 : – en:, de:, es:, fr:, ja:, etc.

The English-, German-, Spanish-, French-, Japanese-, etc.-language Wikipedia. For a full list of codes, see List of ISO 639-1 codes. For a full list of Wikipedias, see List of Wikipedias or m:List of Wikipedias.

ø

The character ø has been used in edit summaries to mean a § Null edit, except that if you can see the edit summary, then it was a dummy edit instead of a null edit.

!=

"Is not equal to". This usage comes from the relational operator in programming languages such as C and C++.

!vote

A response to a proposal, e.g. support or oppose, but in a Wikimedia context where the consensus-seeking decision process does not normally lead to a tally and a majority would not be binding. The expression is read as "not-vote", and imitates the use of the exclamation point to mean 'not' in many programming languages. See also Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion#Not-votes and the essay Don't vote on everything.

+

Used in edit summaries to show minor addition to text.

?

Used in edit summaries to show correction of odd minor error.

0RR

Voluntary or imposed zero-revert rule. See Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary § Zero-revert rule.

1RR

Voluntary or imposed (sometimes by ArbCom) one-§ Revert rule. See also Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary § One-revert rule.

2RR

Voluntary or imposed two-revert rule.

3RR

Abbreviation for § Three-revert rule.

5C

Abbreviation for the "five C's" of copyediting – making the article clear, correct, concise, comprehensible, and consistent.

5P

Abbreviation for Five pillars of Wikipedia.

Abcdise

Term sometimes used in edit summaries to indicate that the edit was to sort list or other items into alphabetical order.

Actionable

In featured content promotion discussions, all objections to promotion must be actionable – that is, it must be possible to make changes (or "actions") so the specified problem can be resolved. For example, objecting on the basis that the citations need improvement is actionable because it is possible to make improvements in this area: more and better citations can be added, the citation style and syntax can be improved, etc. An example of an unactionable objection is that the topic is too controversial; Wikipedia editors can do nothing to change how controversial the topic is.

Admin

Short for Administrator. A user with extra technical privileges for "custodial" work on Wikipedia – specifically, deleting and protecting pages, and blocking abusive users. Synonym: § sysop.

AFC

The articles for creation project which reviews some articles created via the Article wizard.

AfD

The Wikipedia:Articles for deletion page. The AfD of an article refers to the discussion wherein Wikipedians consider whether an article should be kept or deleted. See Wikipedia:Guide to deletion for explanation of some terms used on AfD.

AGF

Abbreviation for "assume good faith", a guideline whereby one should not assume an unwanted or disputed edit was done maliciously. See also Hanlon's razor.

AIV

Abbreviation for "Administrator intervention against vandalism", a place and procedure for notifying Wikipedia administrators about urgent cases of vandalism.

AN

Abbreviation for "Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard", a discussion location for Wikipedia administrators.

Anchor

Wikipedia defines an anchor as either the starting point or the ending point of a link.^a In practice, usage of the term anchor at Wikipedia usually refers to the destination anchor, i.e., the landing place of a link.

ANI, AN/I

Abbreviation for "Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents", where Wikipedia administrators discuss issues which may or may not need urgent administrator attention.

Anon

Abbreviation for "anonymous user". As a user does not necessarily lose their anonymity by registering or logging in, this term should be avoided. See § IP user.

Anyone can edit

See the § Encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

AOTW

Abbreviation of Wikipedia:Article of the week, the former appellation of Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week.

ArbCom

Abbreviation for Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee.

Arbitration

The final step in the dispute resolution process. See also Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee (ARBCOM).

Arb

Short for arbitrator – a member of the Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee.

Archive

A § Subpage of a § Talk page to which some parts of the discussion are transferred, to reduce the size of the Talk page. Rarely, the term may refer to the Wikipedia:Historical archive page, for outdated historical material. See also: Help:Archiving a talk page.

Article

An encyclopedia entry. All articles are pages, but there are also pages that are not articles, such as this one. See also Wikipedia:What is an article.

Astroturf

Used only as a verb, astroturfing refers to attempts at creating the impression of a grassroots movement by the use of sock puppets and meat puppets to make an idea, poll, article, or deletion discussion seem to have more support than it actually has; alternatively, the practice of making entries on sites such as Wikipedia to make an idea seem to have more support. In effect, a technique for "stacking the deck".

AUSC

The former Audit Subcommittee. Monitored and oversaw § Checkuser and Oversight use, and handled complaints concerning use of those privileges. Dissolved in 2016.

Autoconfirmed

A newly registered user is still subject to some of the same restrictions as anonymous users – for example, inability to move articles or edit semi-protected pages, although some restrictions, such as the restriction on anonymous users creating pages, are lifted. When a user is autoconfirmed, these restrictions end. Currently, a new user must make ten edits and wait four days to be autoconfirmed.

AWB

Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser, a semi-automated Wikipedia editor.

Babel

A babel is a user language template aiding multilingual communication by making it easier to contact someone who speaks a certain language.

BAD

Abbreviation for Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas.

Bad faith nomination

A bad faith nomination is the nomination of a page, or more pages (usually for deletion at § AFD) for disingenuous reasons such as making a point or § Vandalism.

Balancing the Main Page

Copy editing the content on various Main Page sections such that text on the left Today's featured article/Did you know column and the right In the news/On this day column are "balanced", i.e. there is minimal blank space below both. Depending on the circumstances, this may also involve temporarily posting an additional hook or event onto one of the Main Page sections, beyond what the maximum number is stated on that particular section's guidelines.

Ban

Banning is the last-resort action by which someone is prevented from editing Wikipedia for a certain length of time, limited or unlimited. Typical reasons for banning include a long history of biased edits (violation of § NPOV), persistent adding of incorrect or doubtful material, refusal to cooperate with others, or extreme incivility and threats. Banned users are not necessarily blocked; however, it is one mechanism to enforce a ban. Any username or IP judged to be the same person can be blocked without any further reason. See also: § Block.

Banner

A banner is a template that is placed across the top of any page to indicate the page's type, details about its maintenance, etc. Banners are usually created using the mbox family of templates. They are often specifically linked to a WikiProject to indicate that the article or category falls within the jurisdiction of that project, but may also be related to article maintenance or protection. "Banner" may also simply mean the administrator who bans a troublesome editor.

Bar

A placeholder name. See § Foo.

Bare URL

A reference including only the URL (web address) with no other text (publication name, article title, date, author, etc). See Wikipedia:Bare URLs.Such references are liable to link rot and should be avoided.

Barnstar

Barnstars are a light-hearted system of awards given to Wikipedian editors by other editors to acknowledge good work or other positive contributions to Wikipedia. They take the form of an image posted to an editor's § Talk page, usually in the form of a five-pointed star. There is a wide variety of different types of barnstar, each indicating a different reason for the award having been given.

BASC

The Ban Appeals Subcommittee, where users formerly could appeal against their ban (or long-term block) after all other appeal processes have failed for them.

base name

In regard to page titles a base name (sometimes "basename") is an undisambiguated title. For example, in a title like Training Day (Potter Payper album) the base name is "Training Day". Words like "base" and "name" are very common and when used together may have other meanings in different contexts. Base name can be used to refer to the magic word {{BASEPAGENAME}}.

battlegrounding

An oppositional Talk page behavioral style; see WP:BATTLEGROUND.

Be Bold

The exhortation that users should try to improve articles and fix mistakes themselves by editing, rather than complain about them. See Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages.

BEANS

An allusion to the essay on not warning people about things they would never have imagined doing (it just gives them ideas): Don't stuff beans up your nose.

Best practice

The ideal thing to do in a particular situation. The best practice might or might not be the typical practice, and it may be unattainable in some circumstances. If a policy or guideline does not support the best practice, the policy or guideline should be changed.

Bit

Most often refers to an account being given the administrator rights. When a user "gets the admin bit" they have just become an administrator. Also known as a "flag" or the "admin flag". See also: § Mop. See Wikipedia:User access levels for further information.

Bitey

Being impolite or worse to a newcomer to Wikipedia. Also seen in the forms bite, biter, and bitten. From the guideline name, Wikipedia:Don't bite the newcomers and its shortcut, WP:BITE. Related to Wikipedia:Assume good faith and Wikipedia:Welcoming committee.

BJAODN

Abbreviation for Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense, a now-inactive page. The verb, BJAODNed, refers to the act of something being posted on the page with that name, and was often used at Wikipedia namespace articles involving heavy user participation, such as the Reference desk or AfD/TfD pages.

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. Newcomers often mistake blanking for deletion. If someone wants their new article removed, they should simply add {{db-g7}} or {{delete}} to it and an administrator will delete the page.

Block

Action by an administrator, removing from a certain IP address or username the ability to edit Wikipedia. Usually done against addresses that have engaged in vandalism or against users who have been banned – see Wikipedia:Blocking policy. See also: § Ban.

BLP

Abbreviation for Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons – official Wikipedia policy, whereby articles about living people must be handled with great care.

Blue link

A wikilink to an article that already exists shows up blue (or purple if it has been recently visited by that reader/editor). See also § Sea of blue, § Red link, and WikiProject Red Link Recovery.

Blurb

A one-sentence summary of a recent news item for § ITN.

Body

The part of an article containing detailed content about the article topic, as defined by its article title, excluding the WP:LEAD, if any. The body follows the lead and may be followed by optional appendix section(s). For short articles with no lead or appendixes, the body may be the entire article, with any end matter following after.

Boilerplate text

A standard message which can be added to an article using a template. For example, {{stub}} is expanded to the following:

This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

See Boilerplate (text).

Boomerang

A situation when the reporter is blocked following their own reports, particularly in ANI.

Bot

A program that automatically or semi-automatically adds or edits Wikipedia-pages. See Wikipedia:Bots, § Rambot, § Vandalbot.

BRD

Bold, Revert, Discuss. A commonly-cited explanation of § Be Bold saying that the process is to make changes boldly, revert unhelpful changes, and discuss any disagreements rather than § Edit war by repeatedly counter-reverting.

Broken link

A link to a nonexistent page, usually colored red, depending on your settings. May also refer to dead links. See also: § Edit link, § Red link, and Wikipedia:Red link.

Broken redirect

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

Bump

To update the posted WP:ITN item with newly available information and bring it higher (bump) among other items accordingly.

Bureaucrat

A Wikipedia Administrator who has been entrusted with promoting users to Administrator status. See also § Crat, Wikipedia:Bureaucrats.

BURO

NOT:Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy.

Cabal

Sometimes assumed to be a secretive organization responsible for the development of Wikipedia or for clandestinely enforcing certain ways of editing one disagrees with. The word is commonly used as a sarcastic hint to lighten up when discussions seem to become a little too paranoid. Discussions involving the term may have links to POV / NPOV issues, § Admin problems, or pretty much anything to do with the foundation of Wikipedia. The term TINC ("There Is No Cabal") is occasionally encountered, used humorously in such a way as to suggest that maybe there is a cabal after all. The term is comparable to the use of the term SMOF in science fiction fandom. See also m:Cabal, There Is No Cabal, Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal, WP:CABAL.

CamelCase

CamelCase (camel case or camel-case, originally known as medial capitals) is the practice of writing compound words or phrases in which the elements are joined without spaces, with each element's initial letter capitalized within the compound and the first letter is either upper or lower case – as in "LaBelle", BackColor, or "McDonald's". See also Wikipedia:CamelCase and Wikipedia.

Campaigning

The inappropriate § canvassing technique of attempting to sway the person reading a notification message about an ongoing discussion, through the use of tone, wording, or intent.

Canvass

Canvassing is the inappropriate notification of a community discussion with the intention of influencing its outcome. Canvassing is considered disruptive since it compromises the consensus building process. Canvassing comes in various types, including § Campaigning, § Votestacking, and § Spamming. See Wikipedia:Canvassing.

Cat

"Category" or "categorize". Often pluralized as "cats" or "cats."

Category

A category is a collection of pages automatically formed by the Wikipedia servers by analyzing category tags in articles. Category tags look like this: Category:Computers. The part after the ":" is the name of the Category. Adding a category tag causes a link to the category page to go to the bottom of the tagged page and results in the page being added to the category listing, also called category page. A list of basic categories to browse through can be found at Category:Main topic classifications.

Category declaration, category tag

A category name placed at the bottom of any page and the wiki-syntax of doing this. Pages are placed into categories by the use of the category declarations. Some people refer to category declarations as category tags. A category declaration looks like Category:Foo bar where foo bar is name of the category and serves as the title of the category page.

CC-BY-SA

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. Wikipedia's articles are released under this license. See also Wikipedia:Copyrights.

CCI

Contributor copyright investigations.

CDT

Current date and time.

CE, c/e

Copy-edit.

CfD

The Wikipedia:Categories for discussion page (previously known as Wikipedia:Categories for deletion).

CfM

Category for merging.

CfR

Category for renaming.

Chatty

A term used for articles which seem to present their content in the manner of a casual conversation with the reader. Chatty articles may need cleanup.

CheckUser

An access level with which a user can see the IP addresses of logged-in users, usually to determine if someone is using sockpuppets to violate policy. Currently granted only to certain members of the Arbitration Committee and some other trusted users.

Child

A subpage or (more often) subcategory. Compare § Parent.

Child article

An article which is one of two or more articles related in a hierarchical fashion, and subsidiary to another article known as the § Parent article. The article Causes of World War II is a child article of World War II. See § Summary style.

CIR

Competence Is Required. An essay commonly cited to point out that even well-intentioned editors (see Assume Good Faith) can be disruptive if they frequently get things wrong.

Circular reference

A reference which cites another page within Wikipedia which in its turn cites the first one. See "Circular reference". Often circular references create a logical fallacy. Another type of circular references is a wikilink in some page to a page which is a redirect to the first one. While mostly harmless, the latter ones are useless and annoying. See also: § Self-link.

Circular redirect

Also called self-redirect. A redirect which wikilinks back to itself, either directly or via a chain of redirects. A special case of § Circular reference.

Citation

A descriptive string which uniquely identifies a source of information (book, article, webpage, etc.) for the purpose of verifying article content. This descriptive text may be placed at the end of the article (a general reference) or after specific material (an inline citation). Material without an inline citation is § uncited. Material that is cited may or may not be § verifiable, depending upon whether the cited source is reliable for this content and contains information that matches the article content. Synonym: a reference.

Citing sources. A § Footnote using <ref>...</ref> tags is the most popular way to cite sources.

Civility

Behavior can be civil without being warm, friendly, or agreeable, as long as it provides a fair basis for social interactions and decisions (e.g., treating others as you would be treated, not lying, not being overtly rude, not trolling or provoking people just for the excitement).

CLS

Cats, lists, boxes.

Cleanup

The process of repairing articles that contain errors of grammar, are poorly formatted, or contain irrelevant material. See also: Wikipedia:Cleanup process.

Climbing the Reichstag

A humorous way of indicating that an editor has over-reacted during an argument such as an edit-war in order to gain some advantage. This has similar consequences to – and is as unwelcome as – WP:POINT (qv). See also: Activities of "Fathers for Justice", Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man.

cmt, cm

Comment.

CNR

Same as § XNR.

COI

Acronym for Wikipedia:Conflict of interest.

COIN

Acronym for Wikipedia:Conflict of interest noticeboard.

Comment out

To hide from normal display whilst retaining the material for editors to see. This is done by inserting the characters <!-- at the start of the comment text and --> at the end. These character strings are used to delimit comments in HTML code.

Commons

Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files.

Community Portal

One of Wikipedia's main pages for editor communication. It can often be found linked to on the sidebar (on the left side in most skins), and is a page that lists important notices, 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.

Consensus WP:CON

The mechanism by which all decisions on Wikipedia are nominally made. Not the same as a "majority vote" (cf Polling is not a substitute for discussion) nor unanimity.

Container category

A category which is intended to contain only subcategories, and have no articles (other than perhaps a § Key article) placed in it. An example would be Category:Architecture in the United States by state.

Contribs, contributions

Edits in wikipedia, supposed to be useful, unlike vandalism. See Help:User contributions.

Contributor

See § Editor.

Convenience links

Links to unofficial copies of reliable sources (not to the original publisher) in addition to a formal citation of the reliable source. Has the advantage over books, paid websites, and websites that need registration of easy accessibility. Sometimes disputed because of violations of copyright, linking to partisan websites, possible distortions or those reliable sources, or because it may contain comments on the reputable sources other editors do not like.

Copyedit, ce

A change to an article that affects only formatting, grammar, and other presentational aspects. See also Wikipedia:Basic copyediting.

Copyvio

Copyright violation. Usually used in an edit summary when deleting copyrighted material added without complying with Wikipedia copyright verification procedures. See also § CV, Wikipedia:Copyrights.

COTW

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

Crat, 'Crat

Short for § Bureaucrat.

Cross-namespace redirects

A § Redirect which links from one type of § Namespace to another. Examples include words in the article namespace which redirect to project pages in the Wikipedia namespace. Although they are not considered standard practice, some are created to facilitate searching, especially for new users. See also § XNR, § CNR, Wikipedia:Namespace and Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects (essay).

Cruft

A somewhat dismissive term used to describe an article or group of articles that are too focused on a specific topic, covering it in too much detail for a general encyclopedia. The term is often used as a suffix for terms such as Fancruft (cruft articles, usually about fictional subjects, significant only to a specific group of fans) and Listcruft (crufty list articles). Cruft articles are often on topics such as minor characters from television series, or very specific lists of songs (such as "List of songs which includes the word 'death' in the lyrics"). Cruft is often deleted or merged into other articles by the Wikipedia community.

CS1

An abbreviation for Citation Style 1, a collection of reference citation templates that can be modified to create different styles for different referenced materials.

CSB

WikiProject Countering systemic bias or, more rarely, an adjective for a topic of concern to the WikiProject, e.g., "This does not seem to be a CSB article." Systemic bias is the tendency for Wikipedia articles to be biased towards a European or American view of things, simply because most editors are European or American.

CSD, WP:CSD

Criteria for speedy deletion, a policy detailing the circumstances when articles etc. can be removed from Wikipedia without discussion. Also lists the templates needed to nominate something for speedy deletion.

Current

On a user's list of contributions, (current) indicates that the article has not been edited by anyone else since the user last edited it.

Current version

The (current version) of a page is the page as it is normally seen. Other versions exist in the page history and can be viewed and permalinked but do not normally show in searches.

Moving a complete page by taking the text of the page, and putting it into the edit window for the second page. Usually done by novices to rename a page. The correct way of page renaming is the 'Move page' option. Cut-n-paste move is generally a bad idea because it splits the edit history of the page. Cut and paste moves can be fixed by administrators. See also Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves.

CV

Abbreviation of § Copyvio.

CVG

Computer and video games.

Dab, WP:D

Abbreviation of § Disambiguation (or disambiguated) (from the Wikipedia:Disambiguation shortcut WP:DAB).

Dabify

To convert (typically a redirect) into a disambiguation page.

Dablink, DAB link, etc.

1. Abbreviation of "disambiguation link"; a link that leads to a § Disambiguation page.

2. To disambiguate a § Link within the text of a page.

3. A link at the top of an article to one or more other articles with similar titles (a § Hatnote), or the addition of such.

DAB page, dab page

Same as § Disambiguation page.

Data dump

To import material from outside sources into Wikipedia without editing, formatting and linking (Wikifying). This is frowned upon by most Wikipedians, and is often a § Copyvio.

Db, DB

1. An abbreviation for "delete because". Almost all templates that are used to request speedy deletion according to the procedure have this prefix (e.g., {{db-advert}}, {{db-nonsense}}, {{db-band}}. See also § Speedy.

2. Wikipedia's database.

Dead-end page

A page that has no links to existing other pages, except interlanguage links. Special:Deadendpages lists them, but this function is disabled in some Wikimedia projects for performance reasons.

De-admin

See § Desysop.

De-also-fy

To remove the word "also" in an article when it is unnecessary.

De-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 because 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 Manual of Style, should be plain). See also un-bold.

Deleted edit

An edit that is no longer listed in an editor's contributions because the page has subsequently been deleted.

Deletionist

Someone who actively attempts to delete pages others prefer to keep. Deletionism is the idea that Wikipedia should be selective in the topics it covers and should remove articles that do not meet certain standards. Often used as a derogatory term. The term 'inclusionist' for the opposite party is less used. See also m:deletionism, m:inclusionism, and Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia.

DENY

Used to mark reversions of edits by known long-term vandals, or obvious or proven sockpuppets of blocked users (see WP:DENY).

Delrev, DRV

Abbreviation for Deletion review.

Deorphan, De-orphan

To make a page no longer an § Orphan. See also Wikipedia:Orphan.

Deprecated

1. (historical) Techie-speak for "tolerated in or supported by a system but not recommended (i.e., beware: may well be on the way out)".

2. The term is also used to refer to pages, templates or categories that have been orphaned or are no longer used.

3. In non-technical English, the word means, "deplored or strongly disapproved of".

Desc

Abbreviation for "description". Often used in edit summaries.

Destination

The destination of a name is the page or section to which it takes the reader in the main namespace. If the page by that name is a redirect, then the redirect target is the destination. Otherwise (typically if the page is an article or a disambiguation page) the page itself is the destination.

Desysop

Take away someone's sysop (§ Administrator) status. Used very rarely, in cases where someone has voluntarily elected to resign such status, or is judged to have misused their admin powers. See also Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship.

Developer, dev

Usually capitalized. A user who can make direct changes to Wikipedia's underlying software and possibly also the database, often being one of the § MediaWiki developers (see next definition) or other Wikimedia Foundation technicians. Technically, it is the highest user access level, but Developer privileges are generally used only at request. Sometimes referred to by other terms such as "system administrators" or "sysadmins", to distinguish from MediaWiki developers. See also m:Developers for a list of developers and further information.

Usually not capitalized. One of the developers of the § MediaWiki software; often but not always a Wikipedia Developer (in the above sense).

De-wikify, dewikify

To remove (de-link) some of the wikification of an article. This can be done to remove self-references or excessive common-noun wikification (also known as the § Sea of blue effect).

Dicdef, dictdef, dic def, dic-def

Short for a dictionary definition. This term is commonly used on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion when referring to an article that is more similar to a dictionary article than an encyclopedia one. Usually a reason for transwikifying to Wiktionary. See also Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary.

Diff

The difference between two versions of page, as displayed using the Page history feature, or from Recent Changes. The versions to compare are encoded in the URL, so you can make a link by copying and pasting it, for instance when discussing a change on an article's talk page.

Disambiguation, disambig

The process of resolving the conflict that occurs when articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title. See also § Dab.

Disambiguation page, DAB page, dab page

A page that contains various meanings of a word, and refers to the pages where the various meanings are defined. In cases when there is a prevailing meaning of the term, disambiguation pages are named "subject (disambiguation)" when there is a primary topic. See (Wikipedia:Disambiguation)

Disambiguator, disambiguation tag

The extra text added to an ambiguous § base name to form an unambiguous article title.

DMCA takedown request

A filing to the Wikimedia Foundation asking them to remove an image or other content from Wikimedia on the grounds that it constitutes a copyright violation and the host has responsibility for that under the U.S.'s DMCA law.

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. Double redirects are generated when moving a page that has redirects leading to it. See also § Repoint.

Duck

See the duck test.

Dupe

Short for a duplicate article. Often used when identifying a duplicate page that needs to be merged with another.

DRV

See § Delrev.

DYK

An abbreviation for Template:Did you know.

EC, e/c

§ Edit conflict, or WP:Extended confirmed.

Edit conflict

Also, rarely "edconf". Appears if an edit is made to the page between when one opens it for editing and completes the edit. The later edit does not take effect, but the editor is prompted to merge their edit with the earlier one. Edit conflicts should not be confused with edit wars.

Editcountitis

A humorous term for having an unhealthy obsession with the number of edits a person makes to Wikipedia, usually applied to one trying to make as many edits as possible. Often cited on Requests for Adminship regarding people who judge people on sheer edit count rather than personal merit.

Edit creep

The tendency for high quality articles to degrade over time. Articles usually achieve good article or featured article recognition because a small core of people knew the subject well and researched it carefully. Subsequently, new readers continue to alter the page. The average contribution may weaken the piece through bad copyediting, poor syntax, recitation of popular misconceptions, or giving undue weight to a subordinate topic. (By way of analogy to scope creep.)

Edit link

See § Broken link.

Edit summary

The contents of the "Summary:" field below the edit box on the "Edit this page" page.

Editor

Anyone who writes or modifies Wikipedia articles. That includes you. Other terms with the same meaning: contributor, user.

Edit war

Two or more parties continually making their preferred changes to a page, each persistently undoing the changes made by the opposite party. Often, an edit war is the result of an argument that could not be resolved on a talk page. Edit wars are not permitted and may lead to blocks. Sometimes termed "revert war", see also the § three-revert rule.

Enc

Short for "encyclopedic" or "encyclopedic value". For example, used on featured pictures discussions.

Encyclopedia that anyone can edit

A core principle of Wikipedia, enshrined in the Five pillars, is that Wikipedia is the "Encyclopedia that anyone can edit".

Eponymous

An eponymous category is a category that has the same name as an article and vice versa. For example George W. Bush and the eponymous Category:George W. Bush. See also § Key article.

Essay

A page that consists of the generally accepted opinions of the authors, rather than verifiable fact.

Expand, expansion

To expand a template means to replace the use of a template in the § wikicode with the result of invoking the template for display to the reader. The Wikimedia software automatically replaces a template in the wikicode of an article with the result of the template invocation in the page Html so a reader may view it. For example, if you code {{Convert|15|miles|km}} in the wikicode of an article, when you view the page it will say "15 miles (24 km)" in place of the template invocation. The wikicode itself remains unchanged. The value returned by the template—what you see when viewing the article—is called the expansion of the template. See Help:Template#Terminology.

Expand can also mean to replace an abbreviation or initialism with the term it refers to.

External link

A link to a website not owned by § Wikimedia. The alternatives are an internal link, wikilink or free link within Wikipedia, and an § interwiki link to a sister project. See also Wikipedia:External links, Wikipedia:Spam.

FA

Featured article, an article that has been selected as representing "the best of Wikipedia". Articles become featured articles when a § FAC gets consensus for promotion.

FAC

Featured article candidate, an article that has been proposed for consideration to be featured as one of the best in Wikipedia.

Fancruft

See § Cruft.

FAR

Featured article review, a process for the improvement or delisting of featured articles that may no longer meet the quality standards for "featured" status, either because the featured article criteria, the article's topic, or the article itself changed. The process begins with a discussion on the article's talk page. If the issues are not resolved, a user may list the article on FAR, where a discussion takes place to help identify and address areas where improvement may be needed. After the discussion, if no consensus emerges to keep the article featured, the review moves on to the next stage, featured article removal candidates (FARC). Here, the article's "featured" status is considered for removal.

FfD, FFD

An abbreviation for Files for discussion.

FIST

Free Image Search Tool, which will look for free images for articles, either manually listed or by category.

Float, floating

To add coding to a template, image, or other feature so it appears in a specific position on the page. See Wikipedia:Picture tutorial § Thumbnails, Help:Table § Floating table, and Help:Section § Floating the TOC for examples.

fmt

Format. Abbreviation commonly used in edit summaries to signify formatting of the page, or wikification.

FoF

Finding of Fact, one of the sections of an Arbitration Decision

Foo

A placeholder name, used to provide a generic example. Thus, "an article on the culture of Foo", means "an article on the culture of any of the places under discussion, or any that it may also apply to". When two placeholders are required, Bar is usually used as the second (e.g., "an article on the Foo of Bar"). See also Foobar.

Footnote

A labeled string of text rendered at the bottom of an article page by the Wikimedia software, and linked to by one or more superscript markers (usually numeric) in the running text of the article. Footnotes are generated by embedding footnote text inside <ref> tags in the wikitext of the article. When the text string is a § Citation, then it is called a citation footnote; otherwise an explanatory footnote. See Help:Footnotes.

• footnote marker – the bracketed, superscripted number, letter, or word; like these dummy examples.^{1aNote 1}
• footnote label – the part between the brackets; following the above example: '1', 'a', or 'Note 1'.
• footnote – the full note or reference, displayed automatically in an ordered list in the Notes and references appendix of the page. Each entry begins with the footnote label in plain text.

Forest fire

A flame war which spreads, seemingly uncontrollably, beyond the pages where it began into unrelated articles' talk pages. A forest fire becomes progressively more difficult for any user to keep track of. On Wikipedia, this is less of a problem than on other wikis, due to well-established boundaries for user conduct, clear guidelines for article content, and a formal dispute resolution process. See also wildfire and MeatBall:ForestFire.

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, and one of an editor's least disputed rights), or the split of an article, usually to accommodate different POVs. The latter is often called a POV fork and generally regarded as highly undesirable.

FP

Featured pictures, a picture that has been selected as representing "the best of Wikipedia". Pictures become featured pictures when a FPC gets consensus for promotion.

FPC

Featured picture candidate, a picture that has been proposed for consideration to be featured as one of the best in Wikipedia.

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.

Friendly notices

A contributor who sends friendly notices as a means of § Canvassing appropriately must ensure these neutrally worded notifications are sent to a small number of editors, intending to improve rather than to influence a discussion and while avoiding excessive cross-posting. See Wikipedia:Canvassing.

Full title

The § base name of an article plus any disambiguators. For example, the full title of the article at top (clothing) is top (clothing), consisting of the base name top and the disambiguator (clothing). If there are no disambiguators, the full title is identical to the base name.

GA

Good article. Hence GAN Good article nomination and GAR Good article reassessment.

gadget

A gadget is a JavaScript tool that can be enabled from your Wikipedia preferences.

Gdanzig

An edit war over which of several possible names should be used for a place. The word is a portmanteau of Gdańsk and Danzig, the two names about which a venerable edit war ensued. See Talk:Gdansk/Vote.

geostub

A WP:stub article about a geographical location

GF

Good faith, a tenet of Wikipedia.

GFDL

GNU Free Documentation License. Many of Wikipedia's articles are released under this license. See also Wikipedia:Copyrights.

GFE

1. A good faith edit.

2. A good faith editor.

Ghits, G-hits, GHits

"Google hits" – the number of results returned on searches for a particular word or phrase using the Google search engine. Sometimes used as a very rough assessment of notability on § AFD. See also § Google test.

glock

Short for global lock, a block where the user is banned from every WikiMedia site

gloss, glosses, glossing

In editing, a gloss is brief explanation that accompanies a text. It can also refer to the addition, modification, or deletion of hyperlinks like this one.

gnome

A wikipedia editor who primarily engages in gnoming: making minor, but helpful edits.

Godwin's Law

Godwin's Law is concerned with logical fallacies such as reductio ad Hitlerum, wherein an idea is unduly dismissed or rejected on the ground of it being associated with persons generally considered "evil".

Godwin's Law states, "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." It is often cited as soon as it occurs as a flag that discussions have gone on too long or gotten out of hand on a particular topic.

good hand, bad hand

Using one resource only for good things and a second, similar resource only for bad things, thereby deflecting any criticism from the first resource by attracting it with the second. In short, keeping one hand clean by using only the other hand for all dirty things.

On Wikipedia, used in phrasing such as, "A good hand, bad hand situation," usually referring to the behavior made under two editor accounts. See Wikipedia:Sock puppetry § Inappropriate uses of alternative accounts, in particular the bullet point with direct shortcuts WP:GHBH & WP:HAND.

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 notable to warrant an article and to check whether a questionable and obscure topic is real (as opposed to the idiosyncratic invention of a particular individual). See also § Ghits and Wikipedia:Google test.

GPL

GNU General Public License. Wikipedia's software is released under this license.

gr

Grammar. Used in edit summaries to indicate that a grammar problem is being corrected.

Hagiography

Wording that is excessively fulsome, adulatory or glowing in a biographical article, to the point of violating § NPOV.

Handwaving, armwaving

An assertion not supported by evidence; most frequently seen in articles for deletion discussions, when editors may assert that a subject is notable, but fail to make a convincing case. Such arguments are usually given less weight. See also Handwave.

Hatnote

A short note placed at the top of an article before the primary topic.

Hard redirect

Equivalent to the usual § Redirect, used to differentiate it from the § Soft redirect.

Hat

1. A collapsed (section of) discussion enclosed by {{hat}} (Template:Hidden archive top) and {{hab}} (Template:Hidden archive bottom) templates. See: Hatted, Hatting

2. A specific user right, in the context of Wikipedia:Hat collecting.

Hatted, Hatting

Refers to using {{hat}} (Template:Hidden archive top) to close and collapse a discussion to discourage further editing, without removing it completely from the page.

History

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

Hook

A short entry at Wikipedia:Did you know.

Hopelessly POV

Describing an article which, in the opinion of some Wikipedians, is so closely tied to a particular point of view as to be inherently in violation of Wikipedia policy and unable to be made neutral. Other Wikipedians consider the accusation "hopelessly POV" as being merely an excuse to suppress certain points of view.

IANAL, 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 professionally qualified to do so, and may not fully understand the law in question. May be generalized to other fields, e.g., IANAA (administrator), IANAD (doctor).

IAR, Ignore All Rules

A policy which states simply "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." There are several essays on what this means, including Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means, and an encyclopedic article on the topic.

IAW

An abbreviation for "in accordance with", as in "IAW WP:RS".

IBAN, I-BAN

An abbreviation referring to an interaction ban between two or more editors, usually used to reduce or eliminate a conflict.

ICBH

An abbreviation for I couldn't be happier.

IfD, IFD

An abbreviation for Images and media for deletion, the old name for Files for discussion.

Iff

If and only if.

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 Inclusionism – radical Inclusionists vote "Keep" on every § AfD 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 standard criteria for inclusion in an encyclopedia, or if the articles in question have quality problems.

Indef

Short for indefinite block.

Infobox

A consistently formatted table which is present in articles with a common subject. See Help:Infobox and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes) for a how-to guide. See also: § Navbox, § Taxobox.

Internal link

See § Free link, § Wikilink.

Interwiki

A link to a sister project; this can be an interlanguage link to a corresponding article in a different language in Wikipedia, 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.

IOT

Abbreviation for "In order to".

IP, IP contributor, IP user, IP editor

An § Editor who contributes without an account. See also: § Anon.

IPA

International Phonetic Alphabet, widely used on Wikipedia to indicate pronunciation. See also Help:IPA, Help:IPA/English, the more detailed IPA chart for English dialects, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation).

IRC

Internet Relay Chat.

IRL

Abbreviation for "In real life".

Isolated, isolated article

An isolated article is an article that cannot be reached via a series of links from the Main Page. See also § Orphan.

ITHAWO

I thought he already was one. Used about people listed in 'admin' requests.

ITN

Abbreviation for Wikipedia:In the news.

i/w, iw

See § Interwiki.

Janitor

See § Admin.

Jimbo

Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia.

Kill / Kill with fire / Kill with a stick / Kill with a § Silver bullet

Dysphemisms for "deleting" a page, expressing some disgust for the existence of the page.

Language link

See § Interwiki.

Laundry list

See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Embedded lists and Wikipedia:WikiProject Laundromat.

Lead, Lede

The introduction or "lead paragraph" of a Wikipedia article; the section before the table of contents and first heading.

LCV, LGV

Edit summary abbreviation for Last Correct Version or Last Good Version (typically after a series of problematic edits).

Lightweight source

A source that only performs basic or token fact-checking; it should not be used to cite exceptional claims.

Link

See Help:Menu/Links.^{clarification needed}

Link farm

Link farms are articles or sections of articles consisting entirely of external or internal links. Some pages consisting of internal links are acceptable (such as disambiguation pages and list articles); others are likely to be candidates for deletion, as are any consisting entirely of external links.

Link rot

Because websites change over time, many external links from Wikipedia to other sites cannot be guaranteed to remain active. When an article's links becomes outdated and no longer work, the article is said to have undergone link rot.

List, list article

See Wikipedia:Lists.

Listcruft

See § Cruft.

Listify

To delete a category and turn the contents into a list. Sometimes used in § CFD discussions as shorthand for "this group of articles would be better if presented as a list, rather than as a category".

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