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*'''User Talk''' ''(n.)'': a members talk page.
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Contents

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

  • anonny (pl. anonnies): Anonymous contributors. See rock opera.
  • admin (n). A user that has special privlages. They can delete, block, protect and directly edit protected pages.

B

  • bureaucrat (pro n.): An advanced form of a sysop. Has the ability to make other users sysops and change people's usernames
  • bandwidth (n.):
  • block (n.) To prevent a user from editing.
  • bot (pro n.):

C

  • Clean Up (v.)
  • Colabrative Project (n.)
  • Category (n.)
  • Contribs (n.): The contributions of a user.

E

  • edit conflict (n.):
  • edit summary (n.; also edit comment): A sumary that shows the intent of an edit.

F

  • Fanstuff (n.):
  • Featured Article (n.):
  • Featured Article (adj.):
  • Flash (n.):see Micromedia Flash: The system that TBC use to make cartoons and games.
  • Flash Artifact (n.):
  • Flash File (n.):
  • Forum (n.):

H

  • history (n.) The recent edits of a page.

I

  • IP number (n.): The number that shows the identity of an annony.
  • IP Range (n.):
  • IRC Chat Channel (n.)

M

  • move (n.): To change the name of a page.
  • Micromedia Flash (n.):
  • Media Wiki (pro n.): The system a wiki uses.

N

  • noun'd (v.t.; also noun'ing):

O

  • Orphaned (adj.)

P

  • Protect (v.): To lock a page from editing.
  • Preferences (n.):

R

  • rv (v.t.; abbrev.): Reverted. Used in an edit summary to indicate that the page has been restored to a previous condition as though the next-to-last edit never occurred.
  • rv/v (v.t.; abbrev.): Reverted vandalism. Similar to rv, but used when the edit in question is vandalism.
  • Recent Changes (pro n.): Recent edits on the Wiki.
  • revision (n.):
  • redirect (n.):

S

  • Schduled Chat (n.)
  • stub (n.): A notice that an article needs to be expanded.
  • STUFF (n.): Originally an acronym for Select The Unuseble Fun Facts.
  • STUFF (v.t.; inflected forms: STUFF'd, STUFFing or STUFF'ing):
  • sysop (n.) Another name for an admin.
  • speedy delete (n.) A notice that shows an article is pending deletion and it doesn't require a consensus.
  • subcategory (n.)
  • subpage (n.)
  • sig (n.)
  • sidebar (n.):

T

  • talk (n.)
  • template (n,):
  • The Stick (pro n.)
  • TOC (n.):
  • TTATOT (n.): An acronym that stands for This That and The Other Thing.
  • transcipt (n.):
  • troll (n.): Someone who vandilizes the wiki.
  • troll (v.): The act of vandilizing the wiki.
  • trolling: (n.):
  • TBD (n.) A notice that shows that an article is pending deleteion.
  • TTBD (n.) A notice that a talk page is pending deletion.

U

  • Upload file (v):
  • User (n.): the name for a member on a wiki.
  • User Talk (n.): a members talk page.

V

  • vandalism (n.):
  • view source (n.):
  • vprotect (n.): To protect a page due to recent vandilism.

W

  • Watch (v.):
  • Wikipedia (n.) An online encyclopedia.
  • Wiki (n.): A website that allows anyone to edit pages.
  • Willy on Wheels (n.): Massive page move troll.
  • WoW (n.; abbrev.): See Willy on Wheels. An abbreviation of the name of a massive page move troll.
  • Wiki Way (n.):
  • Watchlist (n.): A list of pages watched by a user.

X

  • XML (n.):
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