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;<div id=Admin style="font-weight: bold">Admin</div>

:: Short for [[OrthodoxWiki:Administrators|Administrator]]. A user with extra technical privileges who does housework.

;<div id=Anchor style="font-weight: bold">Anchor</div>

;<div id=Archive style="font-weight: bold">Archive</div>

:: ''See also [[Help:How to write a great article]].''

==B==

;<div id=Ban style="font-weight: bold">Ban</div>

:: A Wikipedia Admininistrator who has been entrusted with promoting users to sysops.

==C==

;<div id=Cabal style="font-weight: bold">Cabal</div>

:: ''See also [[Meta:Cabal]], [[w:There Is No Cabal]].''

;<div id=Chatty style="font-weight: bold">Chatty</div>

;<div id=Cut_and_paste move style="font-weight: bold">Cut and paste move</div>

:: 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.

==D==

;<div id=dab style="font-weight: bold">dab</div>

;<div id=Dupe style="font-weight: bold">Dupe</div>

:: Short for a duplicate article. Often used when identifying a duplicate page that needs to be '''[[#Merge|merged]]''' with another.

==E==

;<div id=Edit_conflict style="font-weight: bold">Edit conflict</div>

:: 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.

;<div id=External_link style="font-weight: bold">External link</div>

:: ''See also [[OrthodoxWiki:External links]].''

==F==

;<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=Fancruft style="font-weight: bold">Fancruft</div>

;<div id=Forest_fire style="font-weight: bold">Forest fire</div>

:: A [[w:flame war|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.

;<div id=Free_link style="font-weight: bold">Free link</div>

:: A link pointing to another page within OrthodoxWiki or its sister projects by using the wiki markup double square-brackets <nowiki>"[[" and "]]"</nowiki>. Sometimes they are referred to as '''wikilink'''s or '''internal link'''s. These links usually show up as <font color=blue>blue</font> if they are working and you haven't visited them before, <font color=red>red</font> if they are broken, and <font color=purple>purple</font> if they are working and you have visited them before; note that they do not have the arrow symbol characteristic of an external link.

;<div id=GFDL style="font-weight: bold">GFDL</div>

:: [[w:Gfdl|GNU Free Documentation License]]. OrthodoxWiki articles are released under this license.

;<div id=Google test style="font-weight: bold">Google test</div>

:: Running sections or titles of articles through the [[w:Google|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).

;<div id=GPL style="font-weight: bold">GPL</div>

:: General Public License.

==H==

;<div id=History style="font-weight: bold">History</div>

:''See also: '''''[[Help:Page history]]'''

==I==

;<div id=IANAL style="font-weight: bold">IANAL</div>

::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.

;<div id=Interwiki style="font-weight: bold">ITN</div>

::An abbreviation for In the news.

==J==

==L==

;<div id=Language_link style="font-weight: bold">Language link</div>

:: ''See '''[[#Interwiki|Interwiki]]'''.''

==M==

;<div id=MediaWiki style="font-weight: bold">MediaWiki</div>

:: ''Compare with '''[[#Wikimedia|Wikimedia]]'''.''

;<div id=Merge style="font-weight: bold">Merge</div>

;<div id=Mirror style="font-weight: bold">Mirror</div>

:: A website other than OrthodoxWiki that uses content original to OrthodoxWiki as a source for at least some of its content.

==N==

;<div id=Namespace style="font-weight: bold">n/a</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=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=NPOV style="font-weight: bold">NPOV</div>

==O==

;<div id=Orphan style="font-weight: bold">Orphan</div>

:: A page with no links from other pages. You can view lists of [[Special:Lonelypages|orphaned articles]] and [[Special:Unusedimages|images]].

==P==

;<div id=Page style="font-weight: bold">Page</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=Project_namespace style="font-weight: bold">Project namespace</div>

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

==Q==

==R==

;<div id=rv style="font-weight: bold">rv</div>

:: Revert. An edit summary indicating that the page has been reverted to a previous version, often because of [[OrthodoxWiki:vandalism|vandalism]].

==S==

;<div id=s/word1/word2/ style="font-weight: bold">s/word1/word2/</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=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)

:: Short for ''spelling correction''. Used in [[#Edit summary|edit summaries]].

;<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=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=Sysop style="font-weight: bold">Sysop</div>

:: ''See '''[[#Admin|Admin]]'''.''

==T==

;<div id=Talk_page style="font-weight: bold">Talk page</div>

:: Move a page to another wiki.

;<div id=Troll style="font-weight: bold">Troll</div>

;<div id=Tyop style="font-weight: bold">Tyop</div>

:: A cute misspelling of '''typo'''. Used as an edit summary when correcting typos.

==U==

;<div id=Unencyclopedic style="font-weight: bold">Unencyclopedic</div>

:: Going against the character of a [[#Wiki|Wiki]]. Usually saying that something is un-wiki means that it makes editing more difficult or impossible.

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;<div id=User_page style="font-weight: bold">User page</div>

:: ''See also [[OrthodoxWiki:User guidelines]].''

==V==

;<div id=Vandalbot style="font-weight: bold">Vandalbot</div>

;<div id=Vanity_page style="font-weight: bold">Vanity page</div>

:: A page in the article [[#Namespace|namespace]] that presents biographical details of a non-famous person favorably and is considered inappropriate and/or [[#Unencyclopedic|unencyclopedic]] by most Wikipedians. Such articles are often suspected to be written by their subjects.

==W==

;<div id=Watchlist style="font-weight: bold">Watchlist</div>

;<div id=Wikipedian style="font-weight: bold">Wikipedian</div>

:: ''See also [[OrthodoxWiki:User guidelines]].''

;<div id=Wikistress style="font-weight: bold">Wikistress</div>

:: 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.

==?==

;<div id=en style="font-weight: bold">en: / de: / ja: / etc.</div>

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