As you know, we have a lot of specialized lingo on Wikipedia. Even worse, since anyone can edit, people are always adding new TLAs, shortcuts, and neologisms to our jargon. For those of you who haven't been keeping up, here are some handy definitions:
AfD - Something that used to be called VfD, but had to be changed when Lemony Snicket complained about trademark infringement. Consensus - Fewer than two Wikipedians. Cruft - The stuff that lives in the internet's series of tubes and delays loading of pages from Wikipedia. Sorry, buying more servers doesn't actually help. Edit count - A way of picking admins that makes about as much sense as, say, buying a website based purely on its traffic numbers. Good faith - An anagram for "swift boat". Guideline - See: Policy Infobox - A large table. There are usually supposed to be some chairs with it to make it useful, but many of the legs are often missing. Instruction - See: Process Jimbo - The co-founder of Citizendium. Mailing list - Place to write something you're not willing to have edited mercilessly. Policy - See: Instruction Process - See: Guideline Redirect - To repeat a command already given to somebody who is behaving inappropriately, for example by using the various vandalism warning templates. "Stop, or I'll say 'Stop' again!" is a double redirect. Sockpuppet - Something to wear when walking on astroturf. Stub - An article with more categories than it has words. Userbox - A coffin.
--Michael Snow
Very entertaining read!
On 11/15/06, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
As you know, we have a lot of specialized lingo on Wikipedia. Even worse, since anyone can edit, people are always adding new TLAs, shortcuts, and neologisms to our jargon. For those of you who haven't been keeping up, here are some handy definitions:
AfD - Something that used to be called VfD, but had to be changed when Lemony Snicket complained about trademark infringement. Consensus - Fewer than two Wikipedians. Cruft - The stuff that lives in the internet's series of tubes and delays loading of pages from Wikipedia. Sorry, buying more servers doesn't actually help. Edit count - A way of picking admins that makes about as much sense as, say, buying a website based purely on its traffic numbers. Good faith - An anagram for "swift boat". Guideline - See: Policy Infobox - A large table. There are usually supposed to be some chairs with it to make it useful, but many of the legs are often missing. Instruction - See: Process Jimbo - The co-founder of Citizendium. Mailing list - Place to write something you're not willing to have edited mercilessly. Policy - See: Instruction Process - See: Guideline Redirect - To repeat a command already given to somebody who is behaving inappropriately, for example by using the various vandalism warning templates. "Stop, or I'll say 'Stop' again!" is a double redirect. Sockpuppet - Something to wear when walking on astroturf. Stub - An article with more categories than it has words. Userbox - A coffin.
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On 15/11/06, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
For those of you who haven't been keeping up, here are some handy definitions:
"The Devil's Wiktionary"...
Michael Snow wrote:
Stub - An article with more categories than it has words.
Sadly, I've been finding a lot of stubs lately that have several stub templates yet have _no_ categories. Very annoying, it's almost like having a bunch of templates whose contents read "this article belongs to category Foo" that people put in articles instead of _actual_ category links. :)
lol!
funny read though!
On 11/15/06, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Michael Snow wrote:
Stub - An article with more categories than it has words.
Sadly, I've been finding a lot of stubs lately that have several stub templates yet have _no_ categories. Very annoying, it's almost like having a bunch of templates whose contents read "this article belongs to category Foo" that people put in articles instead of _actual_ category links. :)
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