WikiRaider:Glossary

This is the WikiRaider:Glossary which explains terms commonly used on WikiRaider (and other Wiki projects).

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Ad

Ad stands short for Advertisement. This is generally considered bad within the wiki

See Spam

Admin(istrator)

A user with special privileges. This user does not only serve as Sysop or Bureaucrat but has full access to the database and the ftp files of WikiRaider. We have one Administrator (who actually does the work) tombraidergirl (aka Jana) and one co-Administrator (who is able to jump in and helps during updates) Wile E. Coyote (aka janjan).

AfD

AfD is short for Articles for deletion, a list of articles that have been suggested to be deleted. See: the WikiRaider:Articles for deletion page.

Article

The term article describes the regular WikiRaider entries. Not all pages within WikiRaider are articles (e.g. Project pages, user pages...=).

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Ban / Block

Users (or spam bots) that register to WikiRaider for one reason: vandalism will be immediately banned. We have not yet set up a banning policy for regular users, however as the project grows it will become necessary and let me warn you we stand for a quick banishment policy, you will probably receive one warning in advance before you are banned, so stick to the guidelines of WikiRaider and do not delete, mass-edit or move articles around without thinking about it carefully.

Blanking

The term blanking describes the removal of all content from a page and saving it. Newbies should be aware that this is not the way to delete a page (besides: you are not authorized to perform deletion acts, suggest these pages for deletion. (Blanking should be performed by any user nevertheless when the page have been vandalized and has had no content prior to the vandalism. Don't forget to suggest the page.)

Bot

A bot is a program that automatically or semi-automatically adds or edits Websites (usually with questionable content like medication links).

Broken link

A broken link is a link to a non-existent page, usually coloured red. Policy is not to delete these links, but rather to start the missing article. If you are unable to do so, leave it alone.

Broken redirect

A broken redirect is a redirect to a non-existing page. These again should not be deleted by regular users, especially when created by an Admin. Create the missing page or, if the redirect has not been set up by the Admin, suggest it for deletion.

Bureaucrat

A WikiRaider Administrator who has been entrusted with promoting users to sysops. In our case tombraidergirl and Wile E. Coyote.

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Category

A category is a collection of pages automatically formed by the WikiRaider servers by analysing category tags in articles. Category tags are in the form [[Category:Baddies]]. The part after the ":" is the name of the Category. A list of all categories can be found at Special:Categories.