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''Note: while the definitions below may be useful for understanding and writing text in the community pages (Talk, Wikipedia, User, Meta, etc.), please write actual encyclopedia articles in jargon-free language which is readily understandable without specific knowledge of the Wikipedia project. This glossary is not for [[Orthodox Christianity]] terms.''{{cleanup}}
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:: ''See also [[Meta:Cabal]], [[w:There Is No Cabal]].''
;<div id=Categories style="font-weight: bold">Categories </div>
:: Categories A is a software feature that provides automatic indexes. They are useful as tables of contents.
;<div id=Chatty style="font-weight: bold">Chatty</div>
;<div id=FAC style="font-weight: bold">FAC</div>
:: [[:Category:Featured Articles|Featured article candidate]], an article that has been proposed for consideration to be featured as one of the best in OrthodoxWiki.
;<div id=FAQ style="font-weight: bold">FAQ </div>
:: A page of Frequently Asked Questions along with answers. See: [[OrthodoxWiki:Frequently Asked Questions]]
;<div id=Fancruft style="font-weight: bold">Fancruft</div>
==G==
;<div id=Gallery style="font-weight: bold">Gallery </div>
:: Created by using the<nowiki> <gallery> </nowiki>tag, it is a way to format a collection of images on a page.
;<div id=GFDL style="font-weight: bold">GFDL</div>
:: [[w:Gfdl|GNU Free Documentation License]]. OrthodoxWiki articles are released under this license.
==M==
;<div id=MCB style="font-weight: bold">MCB </div>
:: MCB Mainstream Chalcedonian Bias, OrthodoxWiki’s [[#NPOV|NPOV]].
;<div id=MediaWiki style="font-weight: bold">MediaWiki</div>
:: ''Compare with '''[[#Wikimedia|Wikimedia]]'''.''
;<div id=Merge style="font-weight: bold">Merge</div>
;<div id=Namespace style="font-weight: bold">Namespace</div>
:: A way to classify pages. OrthodoxWiki has namespaces for encyclopedia articles, pages about OrthodoxWiki(meta pages), user pages (User:), special pages (Special:), mediawiki pages (MediaWiki:) and talk pages (Talk:, OrthodoxWiki talk:, and User talk:).
;<div id=Navigation style="font-weight: bold">Navigation </div>
:: The use of links to travel from the current [[#Page|page]] to another page.
;<div id=Newbie_test style="font-weight: bold">Newbie test</div>
:: An edit made by a newcomer to Wikipedia, just to see if "Edit this page" ''really'' does what it sounds like. Newcomers should use [[OrthodoxWiki:Sandbox]] for this purpose.
;<div id=Nickname style="font-weight: bold">Nickname </div>
:: An entry in the [[#User Profile|User Profile]] tab of [[#Preferences|Preferences]], it is used for to generate a [[#Signature|signature]] in an edit box.
;<div id=NPOV style="font-weight: bold">NPOV</div>
;<div id=POV style="font-weight: bold">POV</div>
:: '''P'''oint '''o'''f '''v'''iew. Often used negatively as an adjective to indicate bias, as in "That reply was POV, not neutral.".
;<div id=Preferences style="font-weight: bold">Preferences </div>
:: User information and settings that customize the site for a user.
;<div id=Project_namespace style="font-weight: bold">Project namespace</div>
;<div id=Self-link style="font-weight: bold">Self-link</div>
:: 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|de-wikified]].
;<div id=Sidebar style="font-weight: bold">Sidebar </div>
:: Displayed on the left edge of the page below the site logo (if using the default skin). The sidebar gives access to other pages in OrthodoxWiki for [[#Navigation|navigation]] or information.
;<div id=Signature style="font-weight: bold">Signature </div>
:: The tag used on [[#Talk page|talk pages]] at the end of a posted comment. It can be generated by clicking the signature tab of the edit box.
;<div id=Skin style="font-weight: bold">Skin</div>
:: 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)
;<div id=sp Sp style="font-weight: bold">sp</div>
:: Short for ''spelling correction''. Used in [[#Edit summary|edit summaries]].
;<div id=Special pages style="font-weight: bold">Special pages </div>
:: The pages in the [[#Namespace|namespace]] "Special:" have no corresponding wikitext; they are created by the software on demand.
;<div id=Split style="font-weight: bold">Split</div>
;<div id=Steward style="font-weight: bold">Steward</div>
:: An [[#Administrator|Administrator]] who has been empowered to change any user's status, including granting and revoking Administrator status and granting [[#Bureaucrat|bureaucrat]] status.
;<div id=Style Manual style="font-weight: bold">Style Manual </div>
:: Guidelines that outline the way most pages are formatted and styled on OrthodoxWiki. See: [[OrthodoxWiki:Style Manual]]
;<div id=Stub style="font-weight: bold">Stub</div>
;<div id=Subpage style="font-weight: bold">Subpage</div>
:: A page connected to a parent page. You can only create subpages in certain namespaces. Do not use subpages in the main article space.
;<div id=SUBST style="font-weight: bold">SUBST:</div>
:: Evokes a [[#template|template]] without an automatic link, just a one time substitution. If the template changes in the future the substituted text will not automatically change.
;<div id=Sysop style="font-weight: bold">Sysop</div>
:: Move a page to another wiki.
;<div id=Trapeza style="font-weight: bold">Trapeza </div>
:: The main discussion point for OrthodoxWiki.
;<div id=Troll style="font-weight: bold">Troll</div>
:: ''See also [[OrthodoxWiki:User guidelines]].''
;<div id=User_Profile style="font-weight: bold">User Profile </div>
:: A [[#Special pages|special page]] where [[#Preferences|Preferences]] can be viewed or changed.
==V==