If I don't hear from you, Merry Christmas.

I take it you successfully completed the course?

Except I hear you're on SI, you recidivist!

Good morning

Or just bookmark that article

50 Best Websites 2009

The Best in the Online World


http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1918031,00.html

Clear out your bookmarks. You're going to need the space for 50 offerings that are indispensable to navigating, enjoying yourself, shopping or just killing time on the Web.


Full List
Sites to Visit

Flickr
California Coastline
Delicious
Metafilter
popurls
Twitter
Skype
Boing Boing
Academic Earth
OpenTable
Google
YouTube
Wolfram|Alpha
Hulu
Vimeo
Fora TV
Craiglook
Shop Goodwill
Amazon
Kayak
Netflix
Etsy
PropertyShark.com
Redfin
Wikipedia
Internet Archive
Kiva
ConsumerSearch
Metacritic
Pollster
Facebook
Pandora and Last.fm
Musicovery
Spotify
Supercook
Yelp
Visuwords
CouchSurfing
BabyNameWizard.com's NameVoyager
Mint
TripIt
Aardvark
drop.io
Issuu
Photosynth
OMGPOP
WorldWideTelescope
Fonolo
Get High Now
Know Your Meme

Chinese teen dies at Internet addiction rehab camp

That link still works!

This is an ok resource -- mostly focused on SELF-HELP. Start on the Home page.

Best wishes.

http://www.recover-from-grief.com/stages-of-grief.html

For the more psychologically experienced among you, without attempting to insult your intelligence, I recognize the limitations of a checklist.

But the bottom line is to understand you aren't alone. And talking with friends -- if not a professional -- is the least you can do.

Recognize there is a process and find the courage to move ahead rather than remain stuck in whatever stage of life you find yourself.

There is increasing medical evidence that constant grief stimulates the pleasure center of the brain... think about that... and simply pledge your day today will be a better day than yesterday and then do something (even if only a small thing) to make it happen...

Best wishes to all, wherever you are....


Stages of Grief - Time For a New Model

By J. Worth Kilcrease, LPC, FT on April 20, 2008 - 8:31pm in The Journey Ahead

Again, it appeared in print - the stages of grief. This time it was in an Austin American Statesman article about a soon-to-be closed bar near the University of Texas campus. A young man who is a patron of the bar stated that he was going through the seven stages of grief, but was stuck on anger. Ignoring for now the possibility of mourning over the closing of a bar, I wonder why the myth that mourning (grieving) happens in stages or phases is still so prevalent in our society. After all, there are other, more descriptive models that better describe the process. So what’s wrong with stage-based models of mourning?

There are several:
There is a multitude of stage theories, so which one is the correct one? There are theories involving three, four, five, six, seven, ten, and twelve different stages. The most famous model is a misapplication of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of coping with dying: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance (DABDA for short). This model for mourning is the most egregious one since it is a totally erroneous application of her work.
Regardless of which one you chose, each stage theory attempts to portray a complex process involving the emotional, behavioral, cognitive, spiritual, and social facets of a person with a few simplistic terms. While simplicity can help describe something, it can also be very misleading.

There is no empirical proof that any stage-based model describes everyone’s bereavement experience. The models have been based on observations of select populations and not, until recently, subjected to empirical study. In the February 2007 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (Vol. 297, No. 7), Maciejewski, Zhang, Block, and Prigerson reported on their study that apparently confirmed a five-stage model of mourning adapted from Kubler-Ross’s model. However, many critical reviews regarding the researchers’ methodology, including their highly selected study sample, cast serious doubt on the validity of their conclusions.

Stages imply that mourning is passive. A good analogy is a car wash. First is the “vacuuming the floor” stage, followed by the “clean the bugs off the windshield” stage, followed by the “wash, and rinse” stage, followed by the last stage - the “drying off” stage. The car doesn’t do anything but be there, and everything happens to it so it comes out of the process bright and shiny clean. Mourning is not a passive process like a car wash; it is a highly active one.

Stage models create expectations of what mourning is supposed to be like. To me, this is a major shortcoming because of the potentially detrimental effect on the bereaved. A widely published list of stages sets people up to expect certain reactions after the death of a loved one. When those expectations don’t happen or don’t happen in the “correct” order, the bereaved individuals can think there is something wrong with them. I have had several clients come to me stating they haven’t experienced one stage or another, and they're scared they're not grieving the way they should. Once I explained to them that stages are an artificial construct, they were definitely relieved. There are typically enough shouldas, wouldas, and couldas for a bereaved person to work through without adding whether he/she has adequately encountered all the stages of grieving or if the stages have occurred in the proper sequence.


I believe it is about time we quit trying to distill the interpersonal and intrapersonal complexities of mourning into a simplistic set of dogmatic steps. Mourning is a highly individualistic process based on many factors in the bereaved person’s life. It is a process for finding meaning in a distressing time of loss, creating a new relationship with the deceased, reintegrating the deceased into the bereaved person’s being, and learning how to live in the world under a new set of conditions and assumptions. It is NOT a checklist.

http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-journey-ahead/200804/stages-grief-time-for-a-new-model

The Grief Cycle

The Grief Cycle can be shown as in the chart below, indicating the roller-coaster ride of activity and passivity as the person wriggles and turns in their desperate efforts to avoid the change.



The initial state before the cycle is received is stable, at least in terms of the subsequent reaction on hearing the bad news. Compared with the ups and downs to come, even if there is some variation, this is indeed a stable state.

And then, into the calm of this relative paradise, a bombshell bursts...

Shock stage: Initial paralysis at hearing the bad news.

Denial stage: Trying to avoid the inevitable.

Anger stage: Frustrated outpouring of bottled-up emotion.

Bargaining stage: Seeking in vain for a way out.

Depression stage: Final realization of the inevitable.

Testing stage: Seeking realistic solutions.

Acceptance stage: Finally finding the way forward.



Sticking and cycling

Getting stuck

A common problem with the above cycle is that people get stuck in one phase. Thus a person may become stuck in denial, never moving on from the position of not accepting the inevitable future. When it happens, they still keep on denying it, such as the person who has lost their job still going into the city only to sit on a park bench all day.

Getting stuck in denial is common in 'cool' cultures (such as in Britain, particularly Southern England) where expressing anger is not acceptable. The person may feel that anger, but may then repress it, bottling it up inside.

Likewise, a person may be stuck in permanent anger (which is itself a form of flight from reality) or repeated bargaining. It is more difficult to get stuck in active states than in passivity, and getting stuck in depression is perhaps a more common ailment.

Going in cycles

Another trap is that when a person moves on to the next phase, they have not completed an earlier phase and so move backwards in cyclic loops that repeat previous emotion and actions. Thus, for example, a person that finds bargaining not to be working, may go back into anger or denial.

Cycling is itself a form of avoidance of the inevitable, and going backwards in time may seem to be a way of extending the time before the perceived bad thing happens.

http://changingminds.org/disciplines/change_management/kubler_ross/kubler_ross.htm#gri

Kübler-Ross model

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubler-Ross_model

The Kübler-Ross model, first introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book "On Death and Dying", describes, in five discrete stages, a process by which people allegedly deal with grief and tragedy, especially when diagnosed with a terminal illness or catastrophic loss. In addition to this, her book brought mainstream awareness to the sensitivity required for better treatment of individuals who are dealing with a fatal disease.

Stages

1) Denial:

Denial is usually only a temporary defense for the individual. This feeling is generally replaced with heightened awareness of situations and individuals that will be left behind after death. [1]

Example - "I feel fine."; "This can't be happening, not to me."


2) Anger:

Once in the second stage, the individual recognizes that denial cannot continue. Because of anger, the person is very difficult to care for due to misplaced feelings of rage and envy. Any individual that symbolizes life or energy is subject to projected resentment and jealousy. [1]

Example - "Why me? It's not fair!"; "How can this happen to me?"; "Who is to blame?"


3) Bargaining:

The third stage involves the hope that the individual can somehow postpone or delay death. Usually, the negotiation for an extended life is made with a higher power in exchange for a reformed lifestyle. Psychologically, the person is saying, "I understand I will die, but if I could just have more time..." [1]

Example - "Just let me live to see my children graduate."; "I'll do anything for a few more years."; "I will give my life savings if..."


4) Depression:

During the fourth stage, the dying person begins to understand the certainty of death. Because of this, the individual may become silent, refuse visitors and spend much of the time crying and grieving. This process allows the dying person to disconnect themself from things of love and affection. It is not recommended to attempt to cheer an individual up that is in this stage. It is an important time for grieving that must be processed. [1]

Example - "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"; "I'm going to die . . . What's the point?"; "I miss my loved one, why go on?"


5) Acceptance:

This final stage comes with peace and understanding of the death that is approaching. Generally, the person in the fifth stage will want to be left alone. Additionally, feelings and physical pain may be non-existent. This stage has also been described as the end of the dying struggle. [1]

Example - "It's going to be okay."; "I can't fight it, I may as well prepare for it."

--

Kübler-Ross originally applied these stages to people suffering from terminal illness, and later to any form of catastrophic personal loss (job, income, freedom). [1] This may also include significant life events such as the death of a loved one, divorce, drug addiction, or an infertility diagnosis. Kübler-Ross also claimed these steps do not necessarily come in the order noted above, nor are all steps experienced by all patients, though she stated a person will always experience at least two. Often, people will experience several stages in a "roller coaster" effect - switching between two or more stages, returning to one or more several times before working through it. [1] Significantly, people experiencing the stages should not force the process. The grief process is highly personal and should not be rushed, nor lengthened, on the basis of an individual's imposed time frame or opinion. One should merely be aware that the stages will be worked through and the ultimate stage of "Acceptance" will be reached. However, there are individuals that struggle with death until the end. Some psychologists believe that the harder a person fights death, they are more likely to stay in the denial stage. If this is the case, it is possible the ill person will have more difficulty dying in dignified way. Other psychologists state that not confronting death until the end is adaptive for some people. [1] Those that experience problems working through the stages should consider professional grief counseling or support groups...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubler-Ross_model

For all iHug addicts, to help with recent loss:

Grief http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grief
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss. It includes the emotional numbness, disbelief, separation, anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness that accompany the loss of someone or something loved.[1] Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions...

Losses can range from loss of employment, pets, status, a sense of safety, order, or possessions, to the loss of loved ones. Our response to loss is varied and researchers have moved away from conventional views of grief (that is, that people move through an orderly and predictable series of responses to loss) to one that considers the wide variety of responses that are influenced by personality, family, culture, and spiritual and religious beliefs and practices.

Bereavement, while a normal part of life for us all, carries a degree of risk when limited support is available. Severe reactions to loss may carry over into familial relations and cause trauma for children, spouses and any other family members: there is an increased risk of marital breakup following the death of a child, for example. Issues of personal faith and beliefs may also face challenge, as bereaved persons reassess personal definitions in the face of great pain. While many who grieve are able to work through their loss independently, accessing additional support from bereavement professionals may promote the process of healing. Grief counseling, professional support groups or educational classes, and peer-led support groups are primary resources available to the bereaved. In the United States, local hospice agencies may be an important first contact for those seeking bereavement support.

Other losses

Parents may grieve due to permanent loss of children through means other than death. This loss differs from the death of a child in that the grief process is prolonged or denied because of hope that the relationship will be restored. In this sense, children may be lost due to many different causes, including loss of custody in divorce proceedings; legal termination of parental rights by the government, such as in cases of child abuse; through kidnapping; because the child voluntarily left home (either as a runaway or, for children over 18, by leaving home legally); or because an adult child refuses to have contact with the parent and withdraws from all social and family contact (a symptom of various depression or anxiety disorders).

Many other losses predispose persons to these same experiences, although often not as severely. Loss reactions may occur after the loss of a romantic relationship (i.e. divorce or break up), a vocation, a pet (animal loss), a home, children leaving home (empty nest syndrome), a friend, a favored appointment or desire, a faith in one's religion, etc. A person who strongly identifies with their occupation may feel a sense of grief if they have to stop their job due to retirement, being laid off, injury, or loss of certification.

While the reaction may not be as intense, experiences of loss may still show in these forms of bereavement. Those who have experienced a loss of trust, will also experience some form of grief. For example, people that have been either physically or sexually abused children may have issues around trust as an adult.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/europe/23crapstone.html?em

Top ten reasons to stop blogging

Best Answers - Chosen by Voters

#1 You dream in words, numbers and click clicks.

#2 The only way anyone can get a hold of you is through email.

#3 The only way anyone knows you're alive is by checking to see if you've posted any new blogs.

#4 You forget to go to work.

#5 You forget you have a job.

#6 You forget to pay rent.

#7 You forgot what the outside world looks like.

#8 The ringing in your ears is not the phone.

#9 You get pissed when no one gives your blogs kudos or comments.

# 10 your computer crashes bc you've been on it for many months straight.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061218104530AAABMH9

First Online Teacher of the Year Selected

Last update: 12/2/2008 11:25:00 AM

LANSING, Mich., Dec 02, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Online instructor Lorri MacDonald excels in the virtual classroom This fall Lorri MacDonald has 40 high school students in her two Introduction to Forensic Science classes. She teaches another 17 in Advanced Forensic Science. Both are popular courses, think CSI with homework.

But there is something else unique about MacDonald's classes and, specifically, her classroom. MacDonald is an online instructor teaching in a virtual classroom. Her students are from schools all across Michigan, from tiny Detour Village in the Upper Peninsula to Grand Rapids to Ferndale just outside Detroit.

The course content and instruction all happen over the Internet, with students logging in to follow lessons and complete assignments, and MacDonald interacting with students through e-mail and discussion rooms. MacDonald excels in the virtual classroom.

That is why she was chosen earlier this month as the first ever Online Teacher of the Year by Michigan Virtual School(TM), a division of Michigan Virtual University(R) (MVU(R)).

Michigan Virtual School has trained more than 400 online instructors like MacDonald since it was launched eight years ago.

"Online instructors are a critical component to effective online teaching and learning," said Jamey Fitzpatrick, president and CEO of MVU. "Just like in face-to-face teaching, online instructors must be engaging, knowledgeable and available. Lorri is all of these things and more, and she represents the very best in what is a new and growing field. She truly believes all students can learn and does a remarkable job of developing rapport with students she never gets a chance to meet in person." Online learning is expanding dramatically in Michigan and nationwide. Michigan Virtual School has seen its course enrollments climb from 100 during the 1999-2000 academic year to more than 12,000 during 2007-08. National estimates for online enrollments have jumped from 40,000 to 50,000 in 2000 to about 1 million last year, according to the North American Council for Online Learning. MacDonald has seen the expansion of online learning first hand. She developed the MVS Forensic Science course three years ago and started with just a handful of students enrolling. Nowadays the classes are so full that two other online instructors are helping MacDonald teach the introductory course. "It is an honor to be named Online Teacher of the Year," MacDonald said. "I am part of a talented and dedicated staff of teachers at Michigan Virtual School, to be recognized as Teacher of the Year is quite humbling." Like most of the more than 100 Michigan Virtual School instructors, MacDonald teaches in the face-to-face environment as well as online. She is an assistant professor in Science Education Methods and Educational Research Methods at the University of Detroit Mercy and teaches for MVS on a part-time basis. MacDonald, who earned her doctorate in education and master's degree from Eastern Michigan University after receiving her bachelor's degree from Western Michigan, also has more than 20 years of experience in teaching and building administration at the middle and high school levels. She started teaching online three years ago. "Online learning has changed my teaching practice in my face-to-face classroom," MacDonald said. "I have become more creative and constructivist by encouraging students to build on their own prior knowledge rather than relying on 'pearls of wisdom' dropped during lectures. "Online learning is much more than just 'sit and get,' which is a common misconception that I have encountered," she continued. "Online learning is the way of the future, the way to reach more students in remote places and more students with up-to-date information. If we don't use this form of learning, our students are deprived of learning the skills necessary to compete effectively with the rest of the world." MacDonald was one of four finalists for the Online Teacher of the Year Award. The other finalists were Molly Bruzewski, an education consultant from Bay City who serves as an MVS online instructor in American Government, Legal Issues and Advanced Placement Government and Politics; Melanie Laber, a mathematics teacher at Hartland Middle School who teaches math online for MVS; and John Goudie, a biology teacher at the Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science Center who teaches Bioethics online for MVS. "Online instructors are helping define the classrooms of the future," said Robert Currie, executive director of Michigan Virtual School. "Our online instructors use powerful communication and presentation tools to engage students in an online learning environment. Today's students turn to the Internet for everything from shopping to social networking. Online instructors reach out to students through a medium with which they are extremely comfortable." According to a 2005 Pew Internet Project survey, 87 percent of kids between the ages of 12 and 17 use the Internet, and close to nine out of 10 of them believe the Internet helps teenagers do better in school. "Lorri represents a growing number of elementary, middle and high school teachers in the U.S. that are honing their skills as online instructors," said Susan Patrick, president and CEO of the North American Council for Online Learning. "She is a true educational pioneer and is helping all of us reshape how educational services are delivered at the K-12 level." MacDonald, along with the three other finalists, will be honored during an awards banquet in at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center in Lansing today, Tuesday, Dec. 2. The event is being hosted by Michigan Virtual School and MVU. It will be attended by educational leaders from around the state. About MVU MVU is a private, nonprofit Michigan corporation established in 1998 to deliver online education and training opportunities to the citizens of Michigan. It is the parent organization of the Michigan Virtual School and Michigan LearnPort(R), an online learning portal that delivers professional development opportunities and more to the Michigan education community. To learn more, visit SOURCE Michigan Virtual University
Copyright (C) 2008 PR Newswire. All rights reser

Teen Commits Suicide Live on Web
MIAMI (Nov. 22) -The family of a college
student who killed himself live on the Internet
say they’re horrified his life ended before
a virtual audience, and infuriated that
viewers of the live webcam or operators of
the Web site that hosted it didn’t act sooner
to save him.
Only after police arrived to find Abraham
Biggs dead in his father’s bed did the Web
feed stop Wednesday — 12 hours after the
19-year-old Broward College student first
declared on a Web site that he hated himself
and planned to die.
“It didn’t have to be,” said the victim’s sister,
Rosalind Bigg. “They got hits, they got
viewers, nothing happened for hours.”
Biggs announced his plans to kill himself
over a Web site for bodybuilders, authorities
said. He posted a link from there to
Justin.tv, a site that allows users to broadcast
live videos from their webcams.
A computer user who claimed to have
watched said that after swallowing some
pills, Biggs went to sleep and appeared to
be breathing for a few hours while others
cracked jokes.
Some members of his virtual audience encouraged
him to do it, others tried to talk
him out of it, and some discussed whether
he was taking a dose big enough to kill himself,
said Wendy Crane, an investigator
with the Broward County medical
examiner’s office.
Some users told investigators they did not
take him seriously because he had threatened
suicide on the site before.
Eventually, someone notified the moderator
of the bodybuilding site, who traced
Biggs’ location and called police, Crane
said. The drama unfolded live on Justin.tv,
which allows viewers to post comments
alongside the video images.
As police entered the room, the audience’s
reaction was filled with Internet shorthand:
“OMFG,” one wrote, meaning “Oh, my
God.” Others, either not knowing what they
were seeing, or not caring, wrote “lol,”
which means “laughing out loud,” and “hahahah.”
His father, Abraham Biggs Sr., told The Miami
Herald he didn’t want to watch the
video.
“We were very good friends,” he said. “It’s
wrong that it was allowed to happen.”
An autopsy concluded Biggs died from a
combination of opiates and benzodiazepine,
which his family said was prescribed
for his bipolar disorder.
“Abe, i still wish this was all a joke,” a friend
wrote on the teenager’s MySpace page,
which he described himself as a goodhearted
guy who would always be available for
his pals, no matter what time of day.
In a statement, Justin.tv CEO Michael
Seibel said: “We regret that this has occurred
and want to respect the privacy of
the broadcaster and his family during this
time.”
It is unclear how many people watched it
happen. The Web site would not say how
many people were watching the broadcast.
The site as a whole had 672,000 unique visitors
in October, according to Nielsen.
Biggs was not the first person to commit
suicide with a webcam rolling. But the
drawn-out drama — and the reaction of
those watching — was seen as an extreme
example of young people’s penchant for
sharing intimate details about themselves
over the Internet.
Montana Miller, an assistant professor of
popular culture at Bowling Green State
University in Ohio, said Biggs’ very public
suicide was not shocking, given the way
teenagers chronicle every facet of their lives
on sites like Facebook and MySpace.
“If it’s not recorded or documented then it
doesn’t even seem worthwhile,” she said.
“For today’s generation it might seem,
‘What’s the point of doing it if everyone
isn’t going to see it?’”
She likened Biggs’ death to other public
ways of committing suicide, like jumping
off a bridge.
Crane said she knows of a case in which a
Florida man shot himself in the head in
front of an online audience, though she
didn’t know how much viewers saw. In
Britain last year, a man hanged himself
while chatting online.
Miami lawyer William Hill said there is
probably nothing that could be done legally
to those who watched and did not act. As
for whether the Web site could be held liable,
Hill said there doesn’t seem to be
much of a case for negligence.
“There could conceivably be some liability
if they knew this was happening and they
had some ability to intervene and didn’t
take action,” said Hill, who does business
litigation and has represented a number of
Internet-based clients. But “I think it would
be a stretch.”
Condolences poured into Biggs’ MySpace
page, where the mostly unsmiling teen is
seen posing in a series of pictures with various
young women. On the bodybuilding
Web site, Biggs used the screen name CandyJunkie.
His Justin.tv alias was
“feels_like_ecstacy.”
Bigg described her brother as an outgoing
person who struck up conversations with
Starbucks baristas and enjoyed taking his
young nieces to Chuck E. Cheese. He was
health-conscious and exercised but was not
a bodybuilder, she said.

http://news.aol.com/article/teen-commits-suicide-live-on-web/256594

Click this with volume turned down (language) but this is hilarious

http://www.cracked.com/video_15825_internet-party.html

Ihub FedEx Cup 2008...now open for business!!!


http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=2442


Rules:

This is a four event tournament.

The Barclays - August 21st - 24th
Deutsche Bank Championship - August 29th - September 1st
BMW Championship - September 4th - 7th
THE TOUR Championship - September 25th - 28th

1. You pick 10 players for the tournament. You can only pick 1 player from each of the first 5 tiers. The other 5 players you pick from tier 6. You can pick all 10 player from tier 6 if you wish. Just no more than 1 each from the first 5 tiers.

2. Teams must be submitted prior to the first group teeing off on Thursday August 21st.

3. Must have fun

4. The winner will be the team with the highest total FedEx points at the end of the Tour Championship

5. Points will be deducted for spelling mistakes and poor punctuation.

6. All of Fred's decisions are final.

7. No gimmees or mulligans allowed.

8. Void where prohibited.

FedEx Tiers
TIER 1
1 Tiger Woods
2 Kenny Perry
3 Phil Mickelson
4 Padraig Harrington
5 Anthony Kim
6 Stewart Cink

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TIER 2
7 Vijay Singh
8 Justin Leonard
9 Ryuji Imada
10 Geoff Ogilvy
11 Robert Allenby

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TIER 3
12 Sergio Garcia
13 Carl Pettersson
14 Boo Weekley
15 Jim Furyk
16 Sean O'Hair

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TIER 4
17 K.J. Choi
18 D.J. Trahan
19 Stuart Appleby
20 Trevor Immelman
21 Steve Stricker

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TIER 5
22 J.B. Holmes
23 Chad Campbell
24 Adam Scott
25 Jeff Quinney
26 Andres Romero

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TIER 6
27 Ben Curtis
28 Ernie Els
29 Briny Baird
30 Stephen Ames
31 Hunter Mahan
32 Bart Bryant
33 Rod Pampling
34 Woody Austin
35 Chez Reavie
36 Jerry Kelly
37 Billy Mayfair
38 Steve Marino
39 Brian Gay
40 Daniel Chopra
41 Steve Lowery
42 Camilo Villegas
43 Mike Weir
44 Luke Donald
45 Aaron Baddeley
46 Fredrik Jacobson
47 Nicholas Thompson
48 Tommy Armour III
49 Brandt Snedeker
50 Lee Westwood
51 Ken Duke
52 Johnson Wagner
53 Heath Slocum
54 Parker McLachlin
55 Rory Sabbatini
56 Bubba Watson
57 Kevin Sutherland
58 Retief Goosen
59 Peter Lonard
60 Tim Clark
61 Rocco Mediate
62 Pat Perez
63 Ian Poulter
64 John Senden
65 Ben Crane
66 Charlie Wi
67 Tom Pernice, Jr.
68 Dudley Hart
69 John Merrick
70 Dean Wilson
71 Steve Elkington
72 Paul Goydos
73 Ryan Moore
74 Nick O'Hern
75 Cliff Kresge
76 Mathew Goggin
77 Scott McCarron
78 Justin Rose
79 Charles Howell III
80 Mark Wilson
81 Matt Kuchar
82 John Rollins
83 Kevin Na
84 Steve Flesch
85 Jonathan Byrd
86 Brian Davis
87 Corey Pavin
88 Michael Letzig
89 Fred Couples
90 Paul Casey
91 Alex Cejka
92 John Mallinger
93 Brad Adamonis
94 Nathan Green
95 Lucas Glover
96 Jason Bohn
97 Troy Matteson
98 Jay Williamson
99 Eric Axley
100 Scott Verplank
101 George McNeill
102 Kevin Streelman
103 Greg Kraft
104 Mark Calcavecchia
105 Charley Hoffman
106 Matt Jones
107 Bill Haas
108 Shane Bertsch
109 Joe Ogilvie
110 Tim Wilkinson
111 Nick Watney
112 Zach Johnson
113 Vaughn Taylor
114 Rich Beem
115 Charles Warren
116 Bo Van Pelt
117 Dustin Johnson
118 Brett Quigley
119 Bob Tway
120 Patrick Sheehan
121 David Toms
122 Richard S. Johnson
123 James Driscoll
124 Bob Estes
125 Tom Lehman
126 Tim Petrovic
127 Jason Day
128 Martin Laird
129 Joe Durant
130 Jason Gore
131 Angel Cabrera
132 Ryan Palmer
133 Tim Herron
134 Michael Allen
135 J.J. Henry
136 Frank Lickliter II
137 Jon Mills
138 Chris DiMarco
139 Jesper Parnevik
140 Roland Thatcher
141 Justin Bolli
142 Jeff Overton
143 Glen Day
144 Lee Janzen

Ridiculous, but funny:

Kill/ Kill with fire/ Kill with a stick

Dysphemisms for "deleting" a page, expressing some disgust for the existence of the page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glossary#K

excellent - that will make people here nutso since any EDIT shows up as a new post in theit MAILBOX if they have read it...lol

Mop

A term used to refer to administrator duties (compare Janitor). Often seen in the phrase to give someone a mop (i.e., to make someone into an administrator).

Janitor

See Admin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glossary#M
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glossary#J

Troll

A user who incites or engages in disruptive behavior (trolling). There are some people who enjoy causing conflict, and there are those who make a hobby of it. However, these are few in number and one should always assume good faith in other editors. Calling someone a troll in a dispute is a bad idea; it has an effect similar to calling someone a Nazi – no further meaningful debate is likely to occur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glossary#T

Editcountitis

A humorous term for having an unhealthy obsession with the number of edits that a person makes to Wikipedia, usually applied to one trying to make as many edits as possible. Often cited on Requests for Adminship regarding people who judge people on sheer edit count rather than personal merit.

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Note: while the definitions below may be useful for understanding and communicating on project and discussion pages, and with edit summaries, remember to explain jargon in encyclopedic articles, and write them in language which is readily understandable without specific knowledge of the Wikipedia project.

Don't overdo the use of Wikipedia jargon such as shortcuts on talk pages and edit summaries, either, at least not without providing explanatory links to the appropriate pages. See Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG! for an essay on this.

This is a glossary of terms commonly used on Wikipedia. For more help, see Wikipedia:Help, Wikipedia:FAQ, and Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ. For abbreviations often used in edit summaries, see Wikipedia:Edit summary legend. For common shorthands used in AfD (Articles for Deletion), see the Wikipedia:Guide to deletion. For common abbreviations and slang phrases outside Wikipedia, see List of Internet slang phrases.

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M
m
On the Recent changes page, m (lower case, bold) indicates a minor edit.
magic word
a symbol recognized by the MediaWiki software and which when seen in the non-commented text of the page, triggers the software to do something other than display that symbol, or transclude a page with that name, but instead to use the symbol directly.
Main Page
The page to which every user not specifying an article is redirected. The Main Page contains links to current events, presents certain articles (like a featured article of the day and links to Wikipedia's newest articles), and also serves as an entry point to browsing all articles by topic or other classification. Links to sister projects and other-language Wikipedias are also a prominent feature on the Main Page. Due to its high exposure, all content on the Main Page is protected.
mainspace
The main article namespace (i.e. not a talk page, not a "Wikipedia:" page, not a "User:" page, etc.)
Mastodon
See the essay no angry mastodons. Refers to the fight or flight reflex that sometimes happens while editing Wikipedia. Generally mentioned to request for calm. "Nobody ever got trampled to death because they were editing an encyclopedia."
MC
The Mediation Committee. See Wikipedia:Mediation Committee.
Meat puppet
An account created only for the illegitimate strengthening of another user's position in votes or discussions. Unlike a sock puppet, the account is used by another person. Meat puppets are treated exactly like sock puppets in most cases, making the distinction between them largely academic.
medcab
The Mediation Cabal. See Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal.
medcom
The Mediation Committee. See Wikipedia:Mediation Committee.
Mediation
An attempt by a third party to resolve an edit war or other conflict between users. There exists a Wikipedia:Mediation Committee which can do so on a more or less official basis as the penultimate step in the Wikipedia:dispute resolution process, and a Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal which acts as an informal alternative.
See also: Wikipedia:What is mediation?; Wikipedia:Mediation.
MediaWiki
The software behind Wikipedia and its sister projects, as well as several projects not related to Wikimedia, and a namespace.
Compare with Wikimedia.
See also Wikipedia:MediaWiki, Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace.
Meh
Common edit summary used by many Wikipedians. Generally used for minor edits.
Merge
Taking the text of two pages, and turning it into a single page. See Help:Merging and moving pages
Mergist
A user who adheres to the principle of Mergism, which is a compromise between the Inclusionist and Deletionist principles. A Mergist is of the opinion that while many topics merit inclusion, not every topic deserves its own article, and tries to combine these "side" topics into longer, less specific articles.
Meta
A separate wiki ([1]) used to discuss general Wikimedia matters. In the past, this has been called Metapedia, Meta Wikipedia, Meta Wikimedia, and many other combinations.
See also Wikipedia:Meta.
Meta page
Page that provides information about Wikipedia. Meta pages are more correctly referred to as project namespace pages. Meta pages should not be confused with a page on Meta-Wikimedia.
See also Wikipedia:Meta page.
Mirror
A website other than Wikipedia that uses content original to Wikipedia as a source for at least some of its content.
See also Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks.
Mop
A term used to refer to administrator duties (compare Janitor). Often seen in the phrase to give someone a mop (i.e., to make someone into an administrator).
Move
Changing the name and location of an article because of a misspelling, violation of naming convention, misnomer, or inaccuracy. Involves either renaming the page or moving it and constructing a redirect to keep the original link intact.
See also Help:Renaming (moving) a page.

N
On the Recent changes page, N (upper case, bold) indicates a new page or article.
n/a
An abbreviation for new article, often used in edit summaries. Easily confused with the common non-Wiki use, "not applicable".
Namespace
A way to classify pages. Wikipedia has namespaces for encyclopedia articles, pages about Wikipedia (project namespace), user pages (User:), special pages (Special:), template pages (Template:), and talk pages (Talk:, Wikipedia talk:, and User talk:), among others.
See also Wikipedia:Namespace.
Newbie test
Also used: newb test, noob test.
An edit made by a newcomer to Wikipedia, just to see if "Edit this page" really does what it sounds like. Newcomers should use Wikipedia:Sandbox for this purpose.
See also Wikipedia:Introduction.
NN
frequently in lower case as nn
Found on comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, indicating that the article's subject is not notable enough for a Wikipedia entry.
nom
Short for "nomination," it is often found on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion as part of the phrase Delete per nom, indicating a voter's assent to the main nomination for deletion.
NOR
The Wikipedia policy that No Original Research is allowed in citing sources in articles.
Notice board
Also used: noticeboard.
A page which acts as a forum for a group of users, who use it to coordinate their editing. Most notice boards are by geographic location, like the UK Wikipedians' notice board; a notable exception is the Administrators' noticeboard.
NPOV
Neutral point of view, or the agreement to present possibly subjective content in an objective, neutral, and substantiated manner, so as not to cause edit wars between opposing sides. As a verb, to remove biased statements or slanted phrasing. As an adjective, it indicates that an article is in compliance with Wikipedia's NPOV policy.
Null edit
a null edit is made when an editor opens the edit window of a document then re-saves the file without having made any text changes. This is sometimes done to change the functioning of templates (which require articles containing them to be edited in order for any changes to take effect).
Nupedia
A Wikipedia predecessor project that shut down in 2003. It is currently inactive and there are no plans to resurrect it.
See also: Wikipedia:Nupedia and Wikipedia.

O
Open tasks
A template (found at {{opentask}}) that lists several more or less janitorial tasks that are pending or needed. It is found on the community portal as well as on many user pages. The term is also occasionally used within individual WikiProjects to refer to work which has been discussed but which still needs to be completed.
Open Ticket Request System
Refers to the people and software that surround the handling of email sent to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Original research
In Wikipedia, original research (sometimes abbreviated OR) is material added to articles that has not been published already by a reputable source. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is not the appropriate place to publish original research, nor can it be used for substantiation of article content.
Orphan
An orphaned article is an article with less than three links from other pages in the main article namespace which are not lists or disambiguation pages. An orphaned image is an image which is not linked to from any pages at all. You can view lists of orphaned articles and images. [[Category:Orphaned articles]] contains orphaned articles organized by month.
See also Wikipedia:Orphan and Wikiproject Orphanage.
OTRS
Abbreviation for Open Ticket Request System.
See also Wikipedia:OTRS.

P
Page
Any individual topic within Wikipedia; the web page without the top, bottom and side bars. Pages include articles, stubs, redirects, disambiguation pages, user pages, talk pages, documentation and special pages.
Parent; Parent category
A larger, more general category of which the category under discussion is a subcategory. Compare Child.
Patent nonsense
A humorous pejorative applied to articles that are either completely unintelligible or totally irrelevant. See Wikipedia:Patent nonsense.
Patrol
Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol and/or Wikipedia:New page patrol. May also be used as a synonym for "review closely".
PD
Material not presently under copyright and thus available for use without permission. Public domain
Peer Review
A request to have fellow Wikipedians review and help improve an article. Wikipedia has a page specifically for posting such a request and offering up your work for review. See Wikipedia:Peer Review.
Permcat
A permanent category - that is, a category into which an article is assigned to aid reader navigation, as opposed to a temporary assignment relating to a process such as cleanup or stub sorting.

Per, Per Nom, Per X
A comment on a page such as RFA or AFD may be accompanied by the note "per nom", which means "for the reasons given by the nominator". Similarly, a comment may be noted "per X" where X is the name of one of the other commenters, or a reference to some page that explains the reasoning.
Personal attack
A comment that is not directed at content, but rather insults, demeans or threatens another editor (or a group of editors) personally, with obvious malice. To maintain a friendly and productive atmosphere, personal attacks are forbidden per Wikipedia policy and may be grounds for blocking in serious and/or repeated cases.
See also: Wikipedia:No personal attacks, Wikipedia:Remove personal attacks
Phase I
The wiki software UseModWiki. Wikipedia used this software prior to January 25, 2002.
Phase II
The wiki software written by User:Magnus Manske and adopted by Wikipedia after January 25, 2002 (Magnus Manske Day).
Phase III
A rewritten and improved version of the Phase II software. It was eventually renamed to MediaWiki. Wikipedia currently uses MediaWiki version 1.14alpha (r38535) (see also Special:Version).
See also Wikipedia:MediaWiki, m:MediaWiki.
Phase IV
A dream proposal for the next generation of Wikipedia software made back when complete rewrites were in vogue. Development is now focused on incremental progress.
See also m:Wikipedia4.
Piped link
A link where the text displayed in the article is not the name of the link target. Such links are created using the pipe character "|" e.g. [[Target article|Displayed text]]. The pipe trick is a software feature that generates the displayed text for the editor in certain circumstances.
See also Wikipedia:Piped link, Help:Pipe trick, and m:Help:Piped link#Automatic conversion of the wikitext.
POINT
"Thou shalt not deliberately skew any page, nor create or nominate for deletion any page, nor in any other way vandalize Wikipedia, in order to try to prove your point!" Also written as WP:POINT.
See also Wikipedia:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point.
Pokémon test
A heuristic for assessing the relevance or legitimacy of prospective article topics, which holds that any topic more notable than the most obscure species of Pokémon may deserve a Wikipedia article.
See also Wikipedia:Pokémon test.
Portal
Portal
POTD
Picture of the day
POV
Point of view. Originally referred to each of many perspectives on an issue which may need to be considered and balanced in an encyclopedic article. Today, more often used as a synonym for "bias", as in "That reply was POV, not neutral".
POV warrior
An editor who aggressively distorts coverage of certain topics to suit his/her biases despite community norms of neutrality and the Wikipedia policy of NPOV.
Prejudice
As in, "delete without prejudice" and variations, based on the legal term.
Deletion without prejudice indicates that there's a problem with the present version of the article (e.g. lack of sources) and that recreation of the article is viable if that problem is fixed. Deletion with prejudice indicates that there's a problem with the subject of the article, and that it should not be recreated in any form (although deletion review can overturn this).
Process page
A wikispace page dedicated to discussion and (usually) voting on specific pages or users, or for similar administrative reasons. Examples include CFD, RFA, and AFD.
Prod
Proposed deletion. A process by which articles which do not qualify for speedy deletion but are able to be uncontroversially deleted can be removed from Wikipedia without going through a full AfD process. Can be used as both a noun and a verb (To prod an article).
See also Wikipedia:Guide to deletion.
Project namespace
The project namespace is a namespace dedicated to providing information about Wikipedia. Pages in the project namespace always start with "Wikipedia:".
Proseline
From "prose" and "timeline": chronological list of events narrated in a prose form, usually a lot of paragraphs that begin with a date or time ("In January 21, 2008, 'proseline' was added to the Wikipedia glossary page..."). Usually occurs in articles about ongoing events where editors are adding information as it comes available. Generally seen as bad style that should be avoided.
See also Wikipedia:Proseline.
Protected page
This term indicates a page that cannot be edited except by administrators, or in some cases, established users. Usually this is done to cool down an edit war.
See also Wikipedia:This page is protected.
Protologism
A word that is created and used in the hope that it will become widely used and an accepted part of the language. A successful protologism becomes a neologism.
The term protologism has been adopted as jargon for use within Wiki communities, but is not in common usage outside this context. "Protologism" itself can be considered either a protologism or neologism. Coined by Mikhail Epstein from Greek protos, first + Greek logos, word.
See also protologism and list of protologisms.
The Pump
Also used: VP.
A nickname for Wikipedia:Village pump.

Q
Quarto
Wikimedia Quarto is a multilingual quarterly newsletter published by the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. It can be read online here.

R
Random page
The Random page link is on the left of each page for most skins. It will take you to a Wikipedia article that is chosen by a computer algorithm without any deliberate pattern or meaning to the choice.
RC
An abbreviation for Recent changes
RC Patrol
A group of volunteer editors who examine Recent changes logs for vandalism and other undesirable edits.
Reader-facing template
See: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
Re-creation, also "recreation"
A posting either of the same or similar text of a deleted article by a new user, or of the same text or different text of a deleted article by the original creator.
Recent changes
A dynamically generated page (found at Special:Recentchanges) that lists all edits in descending chronological order. Sometimes abbreviated as RC. Recent changes are checked regularly by editors doing RC patrol, which means checking all suspicious edits to catch vandalism as early as possible. Other ways of watching recent changes are the Recentchanges IRC channel, or CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter, which announce changes in realtime.
Redirect
Also used: redir.
A page title which, when requested, merely sends the reader to another page. This is used for synonyms and ease of linking. For example, impressionist might redirect to impressionism.
See also Wikipedia:Redirect.
Redlink
A wikilink to an article that doesn't exist shows up red. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Red_Link_Recovery
Refactor
To restructure a document, usually applied to the ordering and summarizing of talk pages.
See also: Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages
Reincarnation
A new user account created by a banned user to evade the block. See sock puppet.
Render
In the context of the World Wide Web, rendering is the operation performed by the user's browser of converting the web document (in HTML, XML, etc. plus image and other included files) into the visible page on the user's screen.
Repoint
To change the destination article of a redirect, either to avoid a double redirect or to change the redirect so that it leads to a more appropriate article. The term retarget is also frequently used.
Rescope
To change the subject matter of an article, a template or - most frequently - a category to one that is more acceptable for editorial or encyclopedic purposes. If by doing so the subject area is broadened, the term upscope is sometimes used.
Retarget
See Repoint.
Revert
An edit that reverses edits made by someone else, thus restoring the prior version.
See also Wikipedia:Revert
Revert war
See Edit war.
RfA
Can mean request for adminship or request for arbitration, depending on the context. The latter is frequently abbreviated RfAr to avoid the ambiguity.
RfA Cliché #1
Sometimes used in support at "requests for adminship", to indicate that one thought the candidate already was an admin. See also ITHAWO.
RfAr
Request for arbitration.
RfC
Request for comment, part of the dispute resolution process. A request for comment is an informal process for soliciting input from Wikipedians about a question of article content or a user's conduct.
See also: Wikipedia:Requests for comment.
RfD
The Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion page.
RfM
Request for mediation, part of the dispute resolution process.
See also: Wikipedia:Requests for mediation.
rm
Remove. Used in edit summaries to indicate that a particular piece of text or formatting has been deleted.
rmv
Remove or remove vandalism. Used in edit summaries when good edits were made after vandalism, requiring the editor to sort out the vandalism, as opposed to a simple reversion. (See "rvv" below.)
Rogue admin
Accusatory term for a Wikipedia administrator, suggesting that the accused person systematically abuses their administrative access. Such accusations are rarely found to be justified or particularly productive. See also "rouge admin".
Rollback
To change a page back to the version before the last edit. Sysops have special tools to do this more easily.
Rouge admin
A misspelling of "rogue admin" occasionally used by vandals and trolls. Now used jokingly by many Wikipedia administrators, usually to describe themselves performing actions which the affected users may not like (such as blocking vandals and deleting pages).
RS
Wikipedia:Reliable sources — a guideline that articles should be based on reliable published sources.
rv
Revert. An edit summary indicating that the page has been reverted to a previous version, often because of vandalism.
See also Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version.
rvt
Revert. See above.
See also Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version.
rvv
Revert because of vandalism. See rv above.

S
s/word1/word2/
Replace word1 with word2. Used in edit summaries. It is a reference to the command for "find and replace" in languages such as sed and Perl. s/word1/word2/g means "replace all occurrences of word1 with word2" (g stands for "global").
Salt
(from "salt the earth") To delete an article and protect it against recreation. This is done when unwanted articles are repeatedly recreated.
Sandbox
A sandbox is a page that users may edit however they want. Though it is meant to help users experiment and gain familiarity with Wiki markup, the public sandbox at Wikipedia:Sandbox is often filled with strange things and patent nonsense. In addition to the public sandbox, users may create private sandboxes on subpages of their user page, e.g. User:Hephaestos/Sandbox.
Section editing
Using one of the '[edit]' links to the right of each section's title, one can get an edit window containing only the section of the page that's below the [edit] link. This makes it (hopefully) easier to find the exact spot where one wants to edit, and helps you avoiding an edit conflict. You can turn section editing off in your preferences under the "Enable section editing via [edit] links" option.
Self-link
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 emphasized text rather than links, but the more complex case of a link which redirects to the same article is not, and should be de-wikified.
Self-ref
When used in terms like "no self refs", this refers to the guideline Wikipedia:Avoid self-references whereby articles should generally not refer to the Wikipedia project directly or implicitly. Self-ref can also refer to the template {{selfref}}.
Self-revert
An editor self-reverts when he or she reverts or undoes an edit that he or she had previously made. This may be because the editor was merely making a test, or because the editor later realised his or her edit was faulty, or because he or she wishes to show good faith after a three-revert rule violation.
See revert.
SfD
The Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion page.
Sharpen cat
To place an article within a more specific category, e.g. placing a biography article from Category:Kenya into Category:Kenyan people. Also, sh cat in edit summaries.
Sheep vote
A vote on Wikipedia which seems to be cast just to go along with the flow. E.g., on RfA, this can typically be a vote such as "Support because x, y, and z are supporting." The opposite is called a "wolf vote".
Shortcut
A redirect used within Wikispace to enable editors to get to a project page more quickly.
See Wikipedia:Shortcut for the policy on these redirects, and Wikipedia:List of shortcuts for a complete list.
Skin
The appearance theme in Special:Preferences. Currently, seven are available: Chick, Classic, Cologne Blue, Monobook, MySkin, Nostalgia, and Simple.
Smerge
A contraction of "slight merge" or "selective merge", sometimes used in Articles for deletion discussions. This is for when a topic deserves mention in another article, but not to the extent and detail that is already included (a partial merge and redirect).
Snap
Retargeting a double redirect to point to the ultimate target.
Snowball clause
Sometimes entries on process pages are closed early when it becomes obvious that they have "a snowball's chance in Hell" of passing the process. This removal is "per the Snowball clause". The verb "snowballing" is sometimes used for this action.
See also Wikipedia:Snowball clause.
Sock or Sock puppet

Another user account created secretly by an existing Wikipedian, generally to manufacture the illusion of support in a vote or argument. Also, particularly on AfD, a friend of an existing Wikipedian who has created an account solely for the purpose of supporting that Wikipedian in a vote (this special case is often called a meat puppet). It is not always possible to tell the difference.
See also Wikipedia:Sock puppet.
Soft redirect
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)
See also Wikipedia:Soft redirect.
Sort key
A device to make an article file alphabetically (in a category or other list of articles) other than by the article title, eg "John Smith" under "Smith, John", or "The Who" under "Who, The". Can be assigned to a specific category, or as a {{DEFAULTSORT:}}. See Help:Category#Sort_key.
sp
Short for spelling correction. Used in edit summaries.
SPA
Short for Single Purpose Account. If that single purpose is disruptive (e.g. vote stacking, or attacking some user) the account tends to get indefinitely blocked.
Speedy
Abbreviation for Speedy delete (or "speedy rename" as appropriate). Can also be used as a verb — e.g., "I think the article should be speedied". "Speedy" on Wikipedia does not mean "now, immediately", but rather something that can be done without further discussion.
Speedy delete
Deletion of a page without prior discussion. Pages can be speedily deleted only under very specific circumstances; see Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion for those.
Speedy keep
The closing of a vote on a deletion wikispace page (like AFD) prior to the normal end of the voting period. This happens when the nomination has been faulty (e.g., a bad faith nomination) or when there is overwhelming evidence that the page should be kept (e.g., overwhelming support for keeping it, or a history of deletion attempts that have ended in the same way).
Split
Separating a single page into two or more pages.
Sprot
Also used: sprotect, sprotection
Short for semi-protect. Articles that are semi-protected cannot be edited by unregistered or newly-registered users.
Steward
An Administrator who has been empowered to change any user's status, including granting and revoking Administrator status and granting bureaucrat status.
See also Wikipedia:Administrators#Stewards.
Strike out
Placement of text in strikethrough (HTML <s></s>) tags. This is very rarely used in articles, but is relatively common in votes and discussions when a contributor changes his opinion. As not to cause confusion, the outdated comments are struck out (like this). Generally, one should strike out only one's own comments.
Stub
An article considered too short to give an adequate introduction to a subject (often one paragraph or less). Stubs are marked with stub templates, a specific type of cleanup template, which add the articles to stub categories sorted by subject matter.
See also Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub and Wikiproject Stub Sorting.
Subpage
A page connected to a parent page, such as Somepage/Arguments. You can only create subpages in certain namespaces. Do not use subpages in the main article space.
See also Wikipedia:Subpages.
Subst'ing
Short for "substituting" a template; see Transclusion.
Substub
Old (now rarely used) term for a very short stub, usually consisting of only one sentence.
Suitly emphazi
A phrase with no known exact meaning, but which has a general allusion to positive things, such as improvement, or a request for clarification or elucidation. Originally started as an in-joke on the Wikipedia Reference desk. (See here for the original usage.)
SUL
Abbreviation for "Single user login", which refers to the process of unifying individual accounts with the same name across Wikimedia projects into one global account.
Sysop
See Admin.
Systemic bias
In Wikipedian terms, this refers to the preponderance of Wikipedia articles relating to subjects specific to English-speaking and/or Western countries, as opposed to those from the rest of the world. It may also refer to a bias for articles that may be of particular interest to those who have an affinity towards computers and the Internet, since they are more likely to edit Wikipedia.
See also WikiProject Countering systemic bias
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Tag
In addition to its usual HTML meanings, a tag can simply mean a category or a template that will assign an article to a category (most often a stub template). "To tag an article" means to either add a category or a stub template.
See also Help:HTML in wikitext and Help:Table
Talk page
A page reserved for discussion of the page with which it is associated, such as the article page. Very confusingly, the link to a talk page is labelled "discussion". All pages within Wikipedia (except pages in the Special namespace, and talk pages themselves!) have talk pages attached to them.
See also Wikipedia:Talk page.
Task force
A smaller group of editors in a WikiProject dedicated to a more specific field within the scope of the parent project. Task forces are located on WikiProject subpages. They generally have a less formal bureaucratic structure than full-fledged WikiProjects.
See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/Task forces.
Taxobox
A type of infobox, a taxobox is a taxonomy table positioned at the right side of an entry for a species or organism (or for a genus or family), giving a chart of the kingdom, phylum, etc. of the creature. Taxoboxes are also used for similar standardized tables.
See also Wikipedia:Taxobox.
Template
A way of automatically including the contents of one page within another page, used for boilerplate text, navigational aids, etc.
See also: Wikipedia:Template namespace.
TfD
The Wikipedia:Templates for deletion page.
Three-revert rule
A rule whereby no one is allowed to revert a single article more than three times in one day (with a few exceptions). See Wikipedia:Three-revert rule.
Tl
Short for "template". Also the name of a specific template, {{tl}}, which provides a template link, i.e., links a page to a template without allowing the template's code to operate on that page.
top
On a user's list of contributions, (top) indicates that the article has not been edited by anyone else since the user last edited it.
Trainwreck
A nomination of a group of related pages for deletion or renaming which fails due to the disparate worth of the pages. The deletion process often becomes messy with editors wishing to keep some pages but delete or rename others. Usually the discussion is closed as a procedural "keep", with some or all of the pages later nominated separately.
Transclusion
See Wikipedia:Transclusion, Wikipedia:Transclusion costs and benefits.
Translation
The English-language Wikipedia should have only pages in English. Non-English pages, listed on Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English, are subject to deletion unless translated.
See also: Wikipedia:Translation for requests for translations into English of pages from foreign-language Wikipedias.
Transwiki
Move a page to another Wikimedia project, in particular Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource or sep11.
See also m:Transwiki.
Troll
A user who incites or engages in disruptive behavior (trolling). There are some people who enjoy causing conflict, and there are those who make a hobby of it. However, these are few in number and one should always assume good faith in other editors. Calling someone a troll in a dispute is a bad idea; it has an effect similar to calling someone a Nazi – no further meaningful debate is likely to occur.
See also polarization.
Tyop
A cute misspelling of typo. Used as an edit summary when correcting typos.
See also Wikipedia:typo.

U
Umbrella nomination
A nomination (e.g. on CfD) that contains several items (e.g. categories) which are normally nominated individually.
Unencyclopedic
Saying that something is unencyclopedic (also, unencyclopaedic) implies that it would not be expected to appear in an encyclopedia, and thus not in Wikipedia. (One must remember however that Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia, and hence does not have the space limitations of a paper encyclopedia)
See also Wikipedia:Unencyclopedic.
Un-wiki
Going against the character of a Wiki. Usually, saying that something is "un-wiki" means that it makes editing more difficult or impossible.
Upmerge
A term frequently used on categories for discussion and stub types for deletion, it means "merge into parent category". In the case of stub types, this usually means to keep any associated template but to link it with the parent category rather than the category under discussion. In contexts such as WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, creating an upmerged template means a stub template, only, feeding into a more general stub type.
Upscope
A portmanteau of upmerge and rescope. See rescope.
User
See Editor.
Userbox
A small box which is stored in the template space, and which includes a small piece of information about a user (such as "This user likes cheese"). Many users use userboxes on their user page, although some look down upon it.
See also Wikipedia:Userboxes.
Userfy
Wikipedia:Userfication is the process by which material posted in a Wikipedia article, project, or template space is moved into the user space: into a user page or subpage. A common case is where an inexperienced user who is not a notable person has created an article about himself/herself. The article would be deleted after userfying — moving its content to a user page.
User page
A personal page for Wikipedians. Most people use their pages to introduce themselves and to keep various personal notes and lists. They are also used by Wikipedians to communicate with each other via the user talk pages. User pages are not generated automatically by the process of Registration. A user page is linked to as [[User:Hephaestos|Hephaestos]] and appears as Hephaestos.
See also Wikipedia:User page.

V
Vandal
One who engages in significant amounts of vandalism.
See also m:Vandal.
Vandalbot
Some kind of bot being used for vandalism or spamming. Recognizable by the fact that one or a few IP-addresses make many similar clearly vandalist edits in a short time. In the worst cases these have created or vandalized hundreds of pages in several Wikipedias in a timespan of only minutes.
See also m:Vandalbot.
Vandalism
Deliberate defacement of Wikipedia pages. This can be by deleting text or writing nonsense, bad language, et cetera. The term is sometimes improperly used to discredit the views of an opponent in edit wars. Vandalism can be reported at Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress.
See also m:Wikipedia vandalism.
VandalProof
A tool for finding and removing vandalism — see User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof.
Village pump
The main community forum of Wikipedia (found at Wikipedia:Village pump), where proposals, policy changes, technical problems and other internals are announced and discussed in front of a wider audience than a topic-specific page would have.
VFD
Used to refer to the "Votes for deletion" page. While replaced with "AFD" (WP:AFD), you may still see the term in older talk pages.
VP
Shorthand for Village pump or for VandalProof.

W
Watchlist
A set of pages selected by the user, who can then click on My watchlist to see recent changes to those pages.
See also: Help:Watching pages.
Wheel war
A dispute between Wikipedia administrators who use the privileges of Wikipedia administrators (such as blocking) as weapons in the "war".
See also: Wikipedia:Wheel war, Wheel war.
Wikibooks
A Wikipedia sister project that works to develop free textbooks, manuals, and other texts online.
See also Wikibooks.
Wikibreak
Also used: Wikivacation.
When a Wikipedian takes a break from Wikipedia.
See also m:Wikibreak and Wikipedia:Wikiholiday
WikiFairy
Also used: Wiki faerie.
A Wikipedian who beautifies wiki entries by organizing messy articles, and adding style, color and graphics. The efforts of WikiFairies are normally welcome, though they do not necessarily create new articles or affect the substantive content of the articles they edit. WikiFairies are considered to be basically friendly, like WikiGnomes.
See also Wikipedia:WikiFairy.
Wikify
To format using Wiki markup (as opposed to plain text or HTML) and add internal links to material, incorporating it into the whole of Wikipedia. Noun: Wikification; gerund: wikifying. Sometimes shortened to wfy.
See also Wikipedia:Wikiize Wikiize a verb usage akin to Wikification of documents
See also Wikipedia:How to edit a page, Category:Articles that need to be wikified, Wikipedia:Guide to layout and Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context.
WikiGnome
A Wikipedian who makes minor, helpful edits without clamoring for attention or praise for what they did.
See also Wikipedia:WikiGnome.
Wikilawyering
Attempting to inappropriately rely on technicalities in a legalistic manner with respect to Wikipedia:Policies or Wikipedia:Arbitration. See Wikipedia:Wikilawyering
Wikilink
A link to another Wikipedia page or to an anchor on the same page, as opposed to an external link. For policy, see Wikipedia:Only make links that are relevant to the context, Wikipedia:Build the web. For mechanics, see Wikipedia:Canonicalization, Help:Section#Section linking, Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs, and Wikipedia:Citing_sources/Further_considerations#Wikilinks to full references. See also free link and piped link.
Wiki markup
Also used: wiki text, wikitext.
Code like HTML, but simplified and more convenient, for example '''bold''' instead of bold. It is the source code stored in the database and shown in the edit box. Searching by the Wikipedia software is done in the wikitext, as opposed to searching by external major search engines, which is done in the resulting text. The size of a page is the size of the wikitext.
See also Wikipedia:How to edit a page, Wikipedia:Guide to layout.
Wikimedia
Properly Wikimedia Foundation Inc., a non-profit organization that provides a legal, financial, and organizational framework for Wikipedia and its sister projects and provides the necessary hardware.
Compare with MediaWiki.
See also Wikimedia.
WikiOgre
A Wikipedian who makes large edits from time to time but generally keeps to WikiGnomery.
See also Wikipedia:WikiOgre.
Wikipedophile
An avid reader of the Wikipedia. The true Wikipedophile reads only Wikipedia's youngest articles.
Wikiportal
Pages intended to be the main pages for Wikipedians interested in a specific area of knowledge, helping both to find the information on the specific topic and to develop articles connected with it.
See also Wikipedia:Portal.
Wikipediholic
Also used: Wikiholic.
A wikipediholic is someone with a serious addiction to anything involving the words "Wiki" and "Pedia" in the same word or sentence. One of the main, and most common characteristics of the condition is the victim having a web browser window constantly open to the Recent Changes section of Wikipedia (or in the condition's slightly milder form, one's Watchlist), and pressing the "Reload" or "Refresh" button with a high frequency.
Wikipe-tan
Also used: Wiki-tan.
One of the personifications of Wikipedia. She is the mascot character of various WikiProjects.
See also Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan.
WikiProject
An active group of Wikipedia editors working together to improve a specific group of articles, usually those on one or more related topics. This often involves an attempt to standardize the content and Style of the articles using an agreed standard format.
See also Wikipedia:WikiProject.
Wikiquette
The etiquette of working with others on Wikipedia.
See also Wikipedia:Etiquette.
Wikiquote
A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online collection of quotations.
See also Wikiquote.
Wikislap
Providing someone with the URL of a Wikipedia article when they express a lack of knowledge about a particular topic.
Wikisource
A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online compendium of primary source texts.
See also Wikisource.
Wikispace
The Wikipedia namespace. See Wikipedia:Namespace#Pseudo-namespaces and Wikipedia:Shortcuts (Wikipedia:WP).
Wikispam
Articles or sections created to promote a product or other meme. Spamming can also include adding extraneous or irrelevant links to promote an outside site, particularly for commercial purposes.
Wikispecies
A Wikipedia sister project. It is a wiki-based, species directory that provides a solution to the problem that there is no central registration of species data in Wikipedia. Wikispecies will provide a central, more extensive database for taxonomy. Wikispecies is aimed at the needs of scientific users rather than general users.
Wikistress
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. See Wikistress template, The Bosch Wikistress Meter, Wikistress
Wiktionary
A Wikipedia sister project to create a free online dictionary of every language.
See also Wiktionary.
Wolf vote
A vote on Wikipedia which seems to be cast just to go against the flow. E.g., on RfA, this can typically be a vote such as "Oppose because x, y, and z are supporting." The opposite is called a "sheep vote".
WMF
See Wikimedia Foundation.
WP
Common abbreviation for Wikipedia, especially for pages in the Wikipedia namespace. Also sometimes used as an abbreviation for WikiProject. See Wikipedia:Namespace#Pseudo namespaces and Wikipedia:Shortcuts (Wikipedia:WP).

X
XfD
Generic term for the collection of deletion discussion pages such as MfD, AfD, RfD, IfD, et al.
XNR
Also used: CNR
Acronym for Cross-namespace redirects. Used mainly at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion to emphasize for deletion.

?
en: / de: / ja: / etc.
The English / German / Japanese / etc.-language Wikipedia. Often used in edit summaries to indicate changes to interwiki links. For a full list of codes, see ISO 639. For a full list of Wikipedias, see m:Complete list of language Wikipedias available.

ø
The term ø is sometimes used in edit summaries to indicate a null edit.

!=
"Is not equal to". This usage comes from the relational operator in such languages as C.

!vote
"Not-vote" (the exclamation mark means 'not' in many programming languages). Something that looks like a vote but should not be considered a vote. The term !vote is somewhat tongue-in-cheek. See also Discuss, Don't Vote.

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Note: while the definitions below may be useful for understanding and communicating on project and discussion pages, and with edit summaries, remember to explain jargon in encyclopedic articles, and write them in language which is readily understandable without specific knowledge of the Wikipedia project.

Don't overdo the use of Wikipedia jargon such as shortcuts on talk pages and edit summaries, either, at least not without providing explanatory links to the appropriate pages. See Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG! for an essay on this.

This is a glossary of terms commonly used on Wikipedia. For more help, see Wikipedia:Help, Wikipedia:FAQ, and Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ. For abbreviations often used in edit summaries, see Wikipedia:Edit summary legend. For common shorthands used in AfD (Articles for Deletion), see the Wikipedia:Guide to deletion. For common abbreviations and slang phrases outside Wikipedia, see List of Internet slang phrases.

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1RR
Voluntary (or sometimes ArbCom-imposed) one-revert rule. See One revert rule for more information.
3RR
See three-revert rule

A
Abcdise
Term sometimes used in edit summaries to indicate that the edit was to move list or other items into alphabetical order.
Admin
Short for Administrator. A user with extra technical privileges for "custodial" work on Wikipedia - specifically, deleting and protecting pages, and blocking users.
Also used: Sysop.
AfC
The Wikipedia:Articles for creation page where unregistered contributors can post details of articles they want created. Only relevant while article creation by anonymous users is disabled.
AfD
The Wikipedia:Articles for deletion page. The AfD of an article refers to the discussion wherein Wikipedians consider whether an article should be kept or deleted.
See also Wikipedia:Guide to deletion for explanation of some terms used on AfD.
AGF
Abbreviation for "assume good faith", a guideline whereby one should not assume that an unwanted or disputed edit was done maliciously.
See Wikipedia:Assume good faith, and Hanlon's razor.
AIV
Abbreviation for "Administrator intervention against vandalism", a place and procedure for notifying Wikipedia administrators about chronic vandalism.
See Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.
AMA
Abbreviation for "Association of Members' Advocates", an advocacy scheme by and for Wikipedians. It failed to achieve widespread acceptance and was closed down.
AN
Abbreviation for "Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard", a discussion location for Wikipedia administrators
Anchor
An HTML term for code that lets you link to a specific point in a page, using the "#" character. You can use them to link to a section of a page, e.g. Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs.
ANI
Abbreviation for "Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents", where Wikipedia administrators discuss issues which may or may not need urgent administrator attention
Anon
Also used: IP user.
Abbreviation for "anonymous user". This is what you are if you have not logged in.
AOTW
Abbreviation of Wikipedia:Article of the week, the former appellation of Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week.
ArbCom
Abbreviation for Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
Arbitration
The final step in the dispute resolution process.
See also Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee.
Archive
A subpage of a Talk page to which some parts of the discussion are transferred, to reduce the size of the Talk page. Rarely, the term may refer to the Wikipedia:Historical archive page, for outdated historical material.
See also: Help:Archiving a talk page.
Armwaving
Also, handwaving.
An assertion not supported by evidence; most frequently seen in articles for deletion discussions, when editors may assert that a subject is notable, but fail to make a convincing case. Such arguments are usually given less weight.
Article
An encyclopedia entry. All articles are pages, but there are also pages that are not articles, such as this one.
See also Wikipedia:What is an article.
Astroturf
Used only as a verb, astroturfing refers to attempts at creating the impression of a grassroots movement by the use of sock puppets and meat puppets to make an idea, poll, article, or deletion discussion seem to have more support than it actually has; alternately, the practice of making entries on sites such as Wikipedia to make an idea seem to have more support. In effect, a technique for "stacking the deck".
Autoconfirm
A newly registered user is still subject to some of the same restrictions as anonymous users - for example, inability to move articles or edit semiprotected pages, although some restrictions, such as the restriction on anonymous users creating pages, are lifted. When a user is autoconfirmed, these restrictions end. Currently, a new user must make ten edits and wait four days to be autoconfirmed.
Autofellatio
In the outside world, "Autofellatio" means just what the article says (think before you click, it's not appropriate for the whole family). On Wikipedia, Autofellatio is connected to several issues, including censorship (by removing a photograph of the act that used to be on there) and vandalism (by inserting said photograph into user pages) and trolling (by igniting flamewars for or against the inclusion of said photograph). Due to this, and the term's otherwise obscurity, Autofellatio has become an internal Wikipedian meme.

B
Bad faith nomination
A bad faith nomination is the nomination of a page, or more pages (usually for deletion at AFD) for disingenuous reasons such as making a point or vandalism.
Ban
Banning is the extreme, last resort action by which someone is prevented from editing Wikipedia for a certain length of time, limited or unlimited. Typical reasons for banning include a long history of biased edits (violation of NPOV), persistent adding of incorrect or doubtful material, refusal to cooperate with others, or extreme incivility and threats. Banned users are not necessarialy blocked, however it is one mechanism to enforce a ban. Any username or IP judged to be the same person can be blocked without any further reason. See also: Block.
Banner
A banner is a template that is placed across the top of an article's talk page or at the top of a category to indicate specific details relating to the article or category's maintenance. They are often specifically linked to a WikiProject to indicate that the article or category falls within the jurisdiction of that project, but may also be related to article maintenance or protection. "Banner" may also simply mean the administrator who bans a troublesome editor.
Barnstar
Barnstars are a light-hearted system of awards given to Wikipedian editors by other editors to acknowledge good work or other positive contributions to Wikipedia. They take the form of an image posted to an editor's talk page, usually in the form of a five-pointed star. There are a wide variety of different types of barnstar, each indicating a different reason for the award having been given.
Be Bold
The exhortation that users should try to improve articles and fix mistakes themselves by editing, rather than complain about them. See Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages.
BJAODN
Abbreviation for Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense, a now-inactive page. The verb, BJAODNed, refers to the act of something being posted on the page with that name, and was often used at Wikipedia namespace articles involving heavy user participation, such as the Reference desk or AfD/TfD pages.
Blanking
Removing all content from a page. Newcomers often do this accidentally. On the other hand, if blanking an article is done in bad faith, it is vandalism. If blanking is done to a vandalized brand-new page, it is maintenance, and the page will be deleted by an admin within a few hours if no dispute arises. {{Delete}} should be added to the blanked page to draw attention to it, rather than just blanking it. Newcomers often mistake blanking for deletion.
Block
Action by a sysop, removing from a certain IP-number or username the ability to edit Wikipedia. Usually done against addresses that have engaged in vandalism or against users who have been banned. See also: Ban.
BLP
Abbreviation for Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, the official policy on articles on living people.
Boilerplate text
A standard message which can be added to an article using a template. For example, {{stub}} is expanded to the following:
This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
See also Wikipedia:Boilerplate text.
Bot
A program that automatically or semi-automatically adds or edits Wikipedia-pages.
See also Wikipedia:Bots, Rambot, Vandalbot.
Broken link
Also used: edit link, red link.
A link to a nonexistent page, usually colored red. [[Template:]] may display this way depending on your settings.
Broken redirect
Redirect to a non-existing page. Common opinion is that these should be removed.
Bureaucrat
A Wikipedia Administrator who has been entrusted with promoting users to sysops.
See also Wikipedia:Bureaucrats.
Also used: Crat.

C
Cabal
Sometimes assumed to be a secretive organization responsible for the development of Wikipedia, the word is usually used as a sarcastic hint to lighten up when discussions seem to become a little too paranoid. Discussions involving the term may have links to POV / NPOV issues, admin problems, or pretty much anything to do with the foundation of Wikipedia. The term is comparable to the use of the term SMOF in science fiction fandom.
Compare with Troll.
See also m:Cabal, There Is No Cabal, Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal.
Cat
"Category" or "Categorize".
Category
Also used: cat
A category is a collection of pages automatically formed by the Wikipedia servers by analyzing category tags in articles. Category tags are in the form [[Category:Computers]]. The part after the ":" is the name of the Category. Adding a category tag causes a link to the category and any super-categories to go to the bottom of the page. As stated, it also results in the page being added to the category listing. A list of basic categories to browse through can be found at Category:Fundamental, though a more user-friendly way to find a category is at Wikipedia:Browse.
CfD
The Wikipedia:Categories for discussion page (previously known as Wikipedia:Categories for deletion)
Chatty
A term used for articles which seem to present their content in the manner of a casual conversation with the reader. Chatty articles may need cleanup.
Checkuser
An access level with which a user can see the IP addresses of logged-in users, usually to determine if someone is using sockpuppets to violate policy. Currently only granted to certain members of the Arbitration Committee and other trusted users.
See also m:checkuser.
Child
A subpage or (more often) subcategory. Compare Parent.
Cleanup
The process of repairing articles that contain errors of grammar, are poorly formatted, or contain irrelevant material. Cleanup generally requires only editing skills, as opposed to the specialized knowledge that is more often called for by pages needing attention.
See also: Wikipedia:Cleanup process.
Climbing the Reichstag
A humorous way of indicating that an editor has over-reacted during an argument such as an edit-war in order to gain some advantage. This has similar consequences to - and is as unwelcome as - WP:POINT (qv).
See also: Activities of "Fathers for Justice", Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man.
CNR
Also used: XNR
Acronym for Cross-namespace redirects.
COI
Acronym for Wikipedia:Conflict of interest.
COIN
Acronym for Wikipedia:Conflict of interest noticeboard.
Comment out
To hide from normal display whilst retaining the material for editors to see. This is done by inserting the characters <!-- at the start of the comment text and --> at the end. These character strings are used to delimit comments in HTML code.
Community Portal
One of Wikipedia's main pages. It can often be found on the sidebar (on the left side in most skins), and is a page that lists the collaboration of the week, outstanding tasks that need to be addressed, and several other useful bits of information and resources. The Community Portal is useful for picking an article or topic to work on or read.
Contribs
Short for contributions. These are the edits that a user has made.
Contributor
See Editor.
Convenience links
Links to unofficial copies of reliable sources (not to the original publisher) in addition to a formal citation of the reliable source. Has the advantage over books, paid websites, and websites that need registration of easy accessibility. Sometimes disputed because of violations of copyright, linking to partisan websites, possible distortions or those reliable sources, or because it may contain comments on the reputable sources that other editors do not like. See Wikipedia:convenience links
Copyedit
A change to an article that only affects formatting, grammar, and other presentational aspects.
See also Copyedit and Wikipedia:How to copy-edit.
Copyvio
Also used: copyviol, and occasionally CV.
Copyright violation. Usually used in an edit summary when deleting copyrighted material added without complying with Wikipedia copyright verification procedures.
See also Wikipedia:Copyrights.
COTW
Collaboration of the week, an article needing improvement that is selected by vote to be the subject of widespread cooperative editing for a week.
'Crat
Short for Bureaucrat, used only occasionally.
Cross-namespace redirects
Also used: CNR, and occasionally XNR.
A redirect which links from one type of namespace to another. Examples include words in the article namespace which redirect to project pages in the Wikipedia namespace. Although they are not considered standard practice, some are created to facilitate searching, especially for new users.
See also Wikipedia:Namespace and Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects (inactive).
Cruft
A term used to describe an article or group of articles which are too focused on a specific topic, covering it in too much detail for a general encyclopedia. The term is often used as a suffix for terms such as Pokécruft (Pokémon-cruft) and Roadcruft (cruft articles about roads). Cruft articles are often on topics such as minor characters from television series, or very specific lists of songs (such as "List of songs which includes the word 'death' in the lyrics"). Cruft is often deleted or merged into other articles by the Wikipedia community, although some argue that articles such as Vulpix are cruft, despite their long-term survival as articles.
CSB
WikiProject Countering systemic bias or, more rarely, an adjective for a topic of concern to the WikiProject, e.g. "This doesn't seem to be a CSB article." Systemic bias is the tendency for Wikipedia articles to be biased towards a European or American view of things, simply because most editors are European or American.
CSD
Criteria for speedy deletion, a policy detailing the circumstances when articles etc. can be removed from Wikipedia without discussion. Also lists the templates needed to nominate something for speedy deletion.
Cut and paste move
Moving a page by taking the text of the page, and putting it into the edit window for the second page. Generally considered worse than the 'move page' option, because it splits the page and its edit history. Cut and paste moves can be fixed by administrators.
See also Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves.
CV
See Copyvio.
CVG
Computer and video games.

D
dab
See Disambiguation.
Data dump
To import material from outside sources into Wikipedia without editing, formatting and linking (wikifying). This is frowned upon by most Wikipedians.
See also Wikify.
db
An abbreviation for "delete because". Almost all templates that are used to request speedy deletion according to the procedure have this prefix (e.g., {{db-advert}}, {{db-nonsense}}, {{db-band}}. It can also refer to Wikipedia's database.
See also Speedy.
Dead-end page
Page that has no links to existing other pages, except interlanguage links. Special:Deadendpages lists them, but this function is disabled in some Wikimedia projects for performance reasons.
De-admin
See De-sysop.
De-bold
Also used: un-bold.
To remove a phrase's bold typeface, because it is not the first reference to the title or a synonym of the topic (which should be bold), or that it is not the topic of the article at all. Common situations when one would de-bold include: bold foreign words (should instead be italicized) and bold Wikilinks (which, according to current Manual of Style, should be plain).
Deletionist
Someone who actively attempts to delete pages that others prefer to keep. Deletionism is the idea that Wikipedia should follow the same rules for inclusion as existing paper encyclopedias (mostly Encyclopedia Britannica). Often used as a derogatory term. The term 'inclusionist' for the opposite party is less used.
See also m:deletionism and m:inclusionism.
Deorphan
To make a page no longer an orphan.
See also Wikipedia:Orphan
Deprecated
Techie-speak for "tolerated or supported but not recommended (i.e. beware: may well be on the way out)". The term is also used to refer to pages, templates or categories that have been orphaned or are no longer used. In non-technical English, the word means "deplored or strongly disapproved of".
De-sysop
Also used: De-admin.
Take away someone's sysop status. Used very rarely, in cases where someone has voluntarily elected to resign such status, or is judged to have misused their sysop powers.
See also Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship.
Developer
A user who can make direct changes to the Wikipedia software and possibly also the database, usually being one of the MediaWiki developers or Wikimedia foundation technicians. Technically it is the highest user access level, but Developer privileges are generally only used at request.
See also m:Developers for a list of developers and further information.
De-Wikify
Also used: Un-Wikify.
To remove (de-link) a wikification of an article. This can be done to remove self-references or excessive common-noun Wikification (also known as "sea of blue").
Dicdef
Also used: Dictdef.
Short for a dictionary definition. This term is commonly used on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion when referring to an article that is more similar to a dictionary article than an encyclopedia one. Usually a reason for transwikifying to Wiktionary.
See also Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary.
Diff
The difference between two versions of page, as displayed using the Page history feature, or from Recent Changes. The versions to compare are encoded in the URL, so you can make a link by copying and pasting it - for instance when discussing a change on an article's talk page.
See also m:Help:Diff.
Disambig
See Disambiguation.
Disambiguation
Also used: dab, disambig.
The process of resolving the conflict that occurs when articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title.
See also Wikipedia:Disambiguation.
Disambiguation page
A page that contains various meanings of a word, and refers to the pages where the various meanings are defined. In cases when there is a prevailing meaning of the term, disambiguation pages are named "subject (disambiguation)".
Double redirect
A redirect which leads to another redirect. Counterintuitively, this will not bring one to the final destination, so it needs to be eliminated by linking directly to the target redirect. Double redirects are generated when moving a page which has redirects leading to it.
See also Repoint.
Dupe
Short for a duplicate article. Often used when identifying a duplicate page that needs to be merged with another.
DYK
An abbreviation for Template:Did you know.
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EC
See Edit conflict.
Edit conflict
Also, rarely "edconf". Appears if an edit is made to the page between when one opens it for editing and completes the edit. The later edit doesn't take effect, but the editor is prompted to merge their edit with the earlier one. Edit conflicts shouldn't be confused with edit wars.
See also Wikipedia:Edit conflicts.
Editcountitis
A humorous term for having an unhealthy obsession with the number of edits that a person makes to Wikipedia, usually applied to one trying to make as many edits as possible. Often cited on Requests for Adminship regarding people who judge people on sheer edit count rather than personal merit.
See also Wikipedia:Editcountitis.
Edit creep
The tendency for high quality articles to degrade over time. Articles usually achieve good article or featured article recognition because a small core of people knew the subject well and researched it carefully. Subsequently, new readers continue to alter the page. The average contribution may weaken the piece through bad copyediting, poor syntax, recitation of popular misconceptions, or giving undue weight to a subordinate topic.
Edit link
See Broken link.
Edit summary
The contents of the "Summary:" field below the edit box on the "Edit this page" page.
See also Wikipedia:Edit summary.
Editor
Also used: contributor and user.
Anyone who writes or modifies articles in a Wikipedia. That includes you.
Edit war
Also used: revert war.
Two or more parties continually making their preferred changes to a page, each persistently undoing the changes made by the opposite party. Generally, an edit war is the result of an argument on a talk page that could not be resolved. Edit wars are forbidden and lead to blocks.
See also Wikipedia:Edit war, Wikipedia:Three revert rule.
Emphazi
See Suitly Emphazi.
Eponymous
An eponymous category is a category that has the same name as an article and vice versa. For example George W. Bush and the eponymous category:George W. Bush.
Esperanzify
Motion to close a process or other Wikipedia: namespace page by preserving the page itself, tagging it historical (and adding explanation on why the page was closed), and redirecting (or deleting) subpages. This is the solution that was implemented to close Esperanza, a goodwill "club" that was shut down.
External link
Also used: ext. ln, ext lk, or extlink.
A link to a website not owned by Wikimedia. The alternatives are an internal link, wikilink or free link within Wikipedia, and an interwiki link to a sister project.
See also Wikipedia:External links.

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FA
Featured article, an article that has been selected as representing "the best of Wikipedia". Articles become featured articles when a FAC gets consensus for promotion.
FAC
Featured article candidate, an article that has been proposed for consideration to be featured as one of the best in Wikipedia.
Fancruft
See Cruft.
FARC
Featured article removal candidate, a featured article whose "featured" status is considered for removal, either because the featured article criteria or the article itself changed.
FIST
Free Image Search Tool, which will look for free images for articles, either manually listed or by category
Forest fire
A 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. On Wikipedia, this is less of a problem than on other wikis, due to well-established boundaries for user conduct, clear guidelines for article content, and a formal dispute resolution process.
See also wildfire and MeatBall:ForestFire.
Fork
A splitting of an entity to satisfy different groups of people - in Wikipedia, this can either mean a project-wide split, in which a group of users decides to take a project database and continue with it on their own site (which is perfectly legal under the GFDL, and one of an editor's least disputed rights), or the split of an article, usually to accommodate different POVs. The latter is often called a POV fork and generally regarded as highly undesirable.
FP
Featured pictures, a picture that has been selected as representing "the best of Wikipedia". Pictures become featured pictures when a FPC gets consensus for promotion.
FPC
Featured picture candidate, a picture that has been proposed for consideration to be featured as one of the best in Wikipedia.
Free link
A link pointing to another page within Wikipedia or its sister projects by using the wiki markup double square-brackets "[[" and "]]". Sometimes they are referred to as wikilinks or internal links. Unless otherwise specified in a user's monobook.css, these links usually show up as blue if they are working and you haven't visited them before, red if they are broken, and purple if they are working and you have visited them before; note that they do not have the arrow symbol characteristic of an external link.

G
GA
Good article.
Gadget
A gadget is a JavaScript tool that can be enabled from your Wikipedia preferences.
Gdanzig
An edit war over which of several possible names should be used for a place. The word is a portmanteau of Gdańsk and Danzig, the two names about which a venerable edit war ensued. See Talk:Gdansk/Vote.
Geogre's Law
A law attributed to User:Geogre (although he may not have been the first person, and has certainly not been the only person, to observe this correlation), and most frequently referred to in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Paraphrased, the law states that there exists a strong correlation between the lack of proper capitalization of a person's name in the title of a biographical article, and the failure of the subject of that article to satisfy the criteria for inclusion of biographies.
GFDL
GNU Free Documentation License. Wikipedia articles are released under this license.
See also Wikipedia:Copyrights.
Ghits
"Google hits" - the number of successful searches for a particular word or phrase using the Google search engine. Sometimes used as a very rough assessment of notability on AFD. See also Google test.
Godwin's Law
Godwin's Law is particularly concerned with logical fallacies such as reductio ad Hitlerum, wherein an idea is unduly dismissed or rejected on ground of it being associated with persons generally considered "evil". Godwin's Law is: as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1. It is often cited as soon as it occurs as a flag that discussions have gone on too long or gotten out of hand on a particular topic.
Google test
Running sections or titles of articles through the 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).
See also Ghits, Wikipedia:Google test.
GPL
GNU General Public License. Wikipedia's software is released under this license.

H
Hagiography
Wording that is excessively fulsome, adulatory or glowing in a biographical article, to the point of violating NPOV. See Hagiography.
Handwaving
See: Armwaving
Hatnote
A short note placed at the top of an article before the primary topic.
See also Wikipedia:Hatnote.
History
All previous versions of an article, from its creation to its current state. Also called page history.
See also: Help:Page history
Hopelessly POV
Describing an article which, in the opinion of some Wikipedians, is so closely tied to a particular point of view as to be inherently in violation of Wikipedia policy and unable to be made neutral. Other Wikipedians consider the accusation "hopelessly POV" as being merely an excuse to suppress certain points of view.

I
IANAL
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 professionally qualified to do so, and may not fully understand the law in question. May be generalized to other occupations, e.g. IANAA (administrator), IANAD (doctor).
IfD
An abbreviation for Images and media for Deletion.
Inclusionist
A user who is of the opinion that Wikipedia should contain as much information as possible, often regardless of presentation or notability. There are varying degrees of Inclusionism — radical Inclusionists vote "Keep" on every AfD they come across, while more moderate ones merely express their desire for a wide variety of topics to be covered, even if they do not fit the standard criteria for inclusion in an encyclopedia, or if the articles in question have quality problems.
Infobox
A consistently formatted table which is present in articles with a common subject. See Wikipedia:Infobox and Wikipedia:Infobox templates for a how-to guide.
See also: taxobox.
Internal link
See free link.
Interwiki
A link to a sister project; this can be an interlanguage link to a corresponding article in a different language in Wikipedia, or a link to a project such as Wikibooks, Meta, etc.
IPA
International Phonetic Alphabet, widely used on Wikipedia to indicate pronunciation. See also Help:IPA, Help:pronunciation (for English), the more detailed International Phonetic Alphabet for English, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation).
ITHAWO
I thought he already was one. Used about people listed in 'admin' requests.
ITN
An abbreviation for Template:In the news

J
Janitor
See Admin.
Jimbo
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and Chair and President of the Wikimedia Foundation.

K
Kill / Kill with fire / Kill with a stick
Dysphemisms for "deleting" a page, expressing some disgust for the existence of the page.

L
Language link
See Interwiki.
Laundry list
See Wikipedia:Embedded_list and Wikipedia:WikiProject Laundromat.
Link
See Help:Contents/Links.
Link rot
Because websites change over time, many external links from Wikipedia to other sites cannot be guaranteed to remain active. When an article's links becomes outdated and no longer work, the article is said to have undergone link rot.
Listify
To delete a category and turn the contents into a list. This is shorthand for saying that "this group of articles would be better if presented as a list, rather than as a category."
Lk
Landmarks: Major landmarks

Wiktionary:Glossary
Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

GLA: glossary of terms used in the Wiktionary community. see also Appendix:Glossary - which contains terms used in the body of this dictionary. (There is also the Wikipedia:Glossary)


A
Accessibility - the ease with which web pages may be navigated and read, especially for those with disabilities.
Anchor - an HTML marker used to direct a web browser to a position which is not at the default top of page position.
Adj., -adj – adjective. E.g.: {{en-adj}}
Adv., -adv – adverb. E.g.: {{en-adv}}
AGF – assume good faith – A general principle of public wikis.
AHD – American Heritage Dictionary. See {{enPR}}.
anon, anonip – Someone who edits Wiktionary without signing in. Also, IP.
archaic – The definition is no longer in general use, but still found in some contemporary texts (eg, the Bible). Examples: thee and thou (for you). Generally understood by educated people, but rarely used in current texts or speech. Compare with obsolete and dated. This definition is currently under active debate in Wiktionary:Obsolete and archaic terms

B
b.g.c., bgc - (not used in articles) books.google.com
block - to (temporarily or permanently) prevent a specific user - by username or IP address - from editing Wiktionary by entering the user on a list of blocked individuals; only admins can do this
bluelink - a link to an existing Wiktionary (or other Wikimedia) page; contrast redlink
bookmark - the term Frontpage uses for the anchor HTML tag.
bot - an automated or semiautomated process used to perform tasks on Wiktionary, an abbreviated form of robot.
BP - the Beer Parlour discussion forum for general policy discussions and proposals, requests for permissions and major announcements. E.g.: WT:BP.
BTW - By the way (Internet slang phrase)

C
c. – circa or about – often used in dates of quotations.
c – of common gender, such nouns may be of male or female gender without changing their form.
cat, category – see Appendix:Glossary#category
CFI – Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion. E.g.: WT:CFI
CGEL – Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.
CJK, CJKV - Chinese, Japanese, Korean (and Vietnamese); CJK characters.
clitic pronoun - a weak pronoun; a pronoun of one syllable which is dependent on another word and cannot be used on its own. Compare with emphatic or strong.
CSS – Cascading Style Sheets, used in creating web pages.
colloquial – (of a word or sense) used in conversational speech or informal writing, but usually not in formal speech or writing, such as "lots of". (Not to be confused with slang, nonstandard.)

D
dat - the dative case. Caution: dat is also the ISO 639-3 code for the Darang Deng language.
dated – still in use, but generally only by older people, and considered unfashionable or superseded, particularly by younger people. Examples: wireless (in sense "broadcast radio tuner"), groovy, gramophone, gay (in the senses of "bright", "happy", etc.) Compare with obsolete and archaic This definition is currently under active debate in Wiktionary:Obsolete and archaic terms
desysop - To revoke the admin privileges of a Wikimedia administrator.
dewikify - To convert one or more intra-wiki links to plain words.
dystmesis - Non-standard tmesis, most memorably accompanied with invective infixation.

E
ed. – editor, edition – often used in quotations.
ELE - Entry layout Explained, the style guide for Wiktionary. E.g.: WT:ELE
emphatic pronoun -
English: a reflexive pronoun (eg yourself) used for emphasis (eg you must do it yourself.)
Greek: a structurally independent personal pronoun, in contrast with weak or clitic prounouns.
en – English
enWP – English Wikipedia
enwikt – English Wiktionary
est – Estonia, Estonian
etymon – the source word in an etymology
extant – Of a word, in current use (as opposed to archaic or obsolete).

F
{{F.}} - of French origin. E.g.: {{F.|nl}} (indicating a Dutch word of French origin)
f – of feminine gender
FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
FL, fl – foreign language
fpl – feminine plural. Caution: this abbreviation has the same form as an ISO 639-3 code.
Fr, fr – French

G
GBS – Google Book Search
GP - Google Print, a search engine from Google for published books, now called Google Book Search
GP - Grease Pit, a place to discuss technical issues in Wiktionary. E.g. WT:GP

H
headword - The word described by a given dictionary entry. Usually, the headword has the same spelling as the page name. Exceptions are for entries in languages with optional diacritics (e.g. līber), entries without Unicode representation (e.g. sign language entries and hieroglyphics like wi), and when MediaWiki prohibits the preferred spelling (e.g. ).
headword line – At the core of each entry is a headword line, which lists the headword in bold, often followed by basic grammar and orthography details, e.g. gender, inflected forms, alternate orthography in languages with multiple orthographies like Japanese, Korean, and Serbian. Some editors use the phrase inflection line instead.
historical – Means included for historical information; the thing it refers to is not in current use or no longer exists; e.g. blueshirt, Czechoslovakia. This does not mean the same as "obsolete"; while the thing referred to is obsolete, the word that refers to it is extant. — Paul G 12:17, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I
idiom – A phrase which has a meaning apparently unconnected with the individual words that make it up. E.g. to come a cropper.
IMO, IMHO – In My Opinion, In My Honest Opinion (Internet slang phrase).
inflection – the change in form of a word to represent a change in tense etc. In English an example would be run, runs, ran and running. In highly inflected languages such as Latin there will be many more forms. See also: (1) Conjugation and (2) Declension.
inflection line, infl - See headword line. E.g. {{infl|tr|adverb}}
invective infixation - dystmesis, accompanied by insertion of an invective between the parts divided, e.g., "abso-bloody-lutely".
IP – Someone who edits without signing in. Also, anon, anonip.
IPA – International Phonetic Alphabet.

J
JS - JavaScript

L
L1, L2, etc. – the first-level, second-level, etc. headers on any Wiktionary page, corresponding to (and generating) HTML elements <h1>, <h2>, etc.
lemma – the citation form of an inflected word, especially the form found in bilingual or abridged dictionaries. For verbs, this is usually either the infinitive, or the first-person singular present tense form (depending on the language); for nouns, this is usually the nominative singular (in languages with case and number); and for adjectives, this is usually the nominative singular masculine or neuter form. The plural of lemma is traditionally lemmata, but the form lemmas exists as well.
lexeme – roughly: the abstract "word" underlying a set of inflections; for example, gives and given belong to the same lexeme, which is usually identified by its lemma form give. See also: (1) Wikipedia on lexeme, (2) Wiktionary:Languages with more than one grammatical gender, (3) conjugation (above, on this list) and (4) declension (also above).
LOP - Wiktionary:List of protologisms, see protologism

M
m – of masculine gender
m.pl - masculine plural
Monobook - the name used for the CSS file used to control the appearance of Wiktionary on your web browser.
mpl – masculine plural, although m.pl may be preferred to avoid confusion with the ISO 639-3 code for the language Middle Watut.

N
n – of neuter gender
namespace - an optional prefix to a page title, eg "Help", "Template". Thus Help:How to check translations is a page within the "Help" namespace.
nl – Netherlands, Dutch
nonce – said of a term that was coined for a particular utterance
NPOV – "Neutral Point of View". (Articles are meant to be written from a NPOV, not from a POV or particular Point Of View.)
ns/NS - namespace

O
OBE - Overtaken By Events.
obs, obsolete – indicates a term no longer in use, no longer likely to be understood. Compare with archaic and dated. This definition is under discussion in Wiktionary talk:Obsolete and archaic terms
OED – Oxford English Dictionary. Also SOED (Shorter), OED1 (1st edition), OED2 (2nd edition), NOED (New).
OmegaWiki - Previously known as Ultimate Wiktionary and WiktionaryZ, a project stemmed from Wiktionary, (homepage)
OTOH – On the other hand (Internet slang phrase)
OTRS - Open source Ticket Request System

P
p - plural
p. – post or after, often used in quotations.
phrase – Sometimes called a "set phrase", a string of words which have a special meaning. In other words, if one of the words in the phrase is changed for another word of similar meaning, the entire phrase is altered. Flight simulator is a phrase because it has a special meaning that flying simulator doesn't. Cf idiom
pl – plural, although the abbreviation p is preferred, to avoid confusion with the ISO 639-1 code for the Polish language.
pluralia tantum – nouns with no singular form – see Category:English_pluralia_tantum
POS – Part(s) of Speech. (POS) is a placeholder which can be replaced with any of the approved POS headers.
POV – "Point of View"
Articles are meant to be written from a Neutral Point of View (NPOV), not from a POV – particular point of view

R
redlink - a link to a Wiktionary (or other Wikimedia) page that does not exist; contrast bluelink
RfAP - Request for audio pronunciation; i.e. request that an audio file be added to an entry.
RfC – Request for clean-up, see WT:RFC
RfD – Request for deletion, see WT:RFD
RfV – Request for verification, see WT:RFV
romanisation/romanization – a particular form of transliteration, where a non-Roman script is converted into the Roman one. (eg. singnómi in “συγγνώμη (singnómi)”). See tr.
RT(F)M – Read the (fucking) manual.
rv – Revert to prior content.
rvv – Revert Vandalism.

S
s – singular
SAMPA – SAMPA, a set of systems for representing the phonemes of various languages in plain ASCII text.
Not to be confused with X–SAMPA, the system for representing the full IPA in plain ASCII text.
sandbox - a page that users may edit in whatever way they want. There is a public sandbox at Wiktionary:Sandbox or users may create their own.
sc - script. Terms appearing in the English Wiktionary that are written in scripts other than the Latin (roman) script use a script template to select the optimal fonts for readers. Templates like {{t}} and {{term}} accept a parameter named {{{sc}}} to specify the script. Caution: the ISO 639-1 code sc is for the Sardinian language. See tr. E.g. {{term|sc=Grek|λόγος|tr=lógos}}
scap - specific to #wikimedia-tech channel: sync-common-all-php.
sg - Some templates use this abbreviation for singular, but the abbreviation s is preferred to avoid confusion with the ISO 639-1 code for the Sango language. E.g.: {{en-noun|sg=[[noun]] [[phrase]]}}
SIL – SIL International, formerly the Summer Institute of Linguistics; home of Ethnologue, and official registrar of the ISO 639 three-letter language codes (such as en for English).
SOP, SoP — "[the] sum of [its] parts". Describes a multi-word term whose meaning follows directly from the combination of its constituent words. Note that many terms like fried egg and prime number are sum of parts but idiomatic in other ways.
stemmer, stemming - software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.
stop word - a word ignored by a search engines, usually one on a list of such common words.
strong pronoun - (Greek) an emphatic pronoun.

T
TR – the Tea room
tr - transliteration. Terms appearing in the English Wiktionary that are written in scripts other than the Latin (roman) script are followed by a transliteration. Templates like {{t}} and {{term}} accept a parameter named {{{tr}}} for the transliteration. See sc above. Caution: the ISO 639-1 code tr is for the Turkish language. E.g. {{term|sc=Grek|λόγος|tr=lógos}}
tr., tran. – translator or translated, often used in quotations.
transliteration – the conversion of text in one script into an equivalent in another script. This may include the conversion of diacritical marks into alternate forms without diacritical marks (e.g., Mörder → Moerder).
TTBC - Ambiguous or possibly incorrect translations needing checking from a native speaker.

U
UK – UK English, i.e. The English of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the British Isles excluding the Irish Republic).
UTC – Coordinated Universal Time

V
!vote – A sarcastic reference to the essay Polls are evil, a reminder that wiki-voting is not binding, per se, but a useful tool nevertheless. The exclamation point is a computing term for "not".
VIP - Wiktionary:Vandalism in progress, a page to list recent vandalism sprees.

W
weak pronoun – a pronoun of one syllable which is dependent on another word and cannot be used on its own; sometimes called clitic. Compare with emphatic or strong.
WF (or Wonderfool) A particular abnormally persistent vandal.
wheel war – A struggle between two or more admins in which each undoes the other's admin actions — in particular, unblocking and reblocking a user; undeleting and redeleting, or unprotecting and reprotecting an article.
wikify, wfy, wikification – to create wikilinks and/or to format in accordance with Wiktionary's standards.
wikitext, wiki markup - a markup language, the simplified alternative to HTML used to write pages in wiki webs.
wikt –Wiktionary
WiktionaryZ - See OmegaWiki
WMF - Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., the parent organization of Wiktionary and other projects
WordNet - lexical database for the English language at Princeton University here.
WP – Wikipedia

X
X-SAMPA – Extended SAMPA, a system for representing the full IPA in plain text.


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ASHES TO BUBBLES AND DUST TO LYE....



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A rival to burial: Dissolving bodies with lye
Mortuary science weighs process; procedure used in medical centers

Michael Conroy / AP
Brad Crain, president of BioSafe Engineering, and one of the company's steel cylinders.
The Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. - Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest — dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.

The process is called alkaline hydrolysis and was developed in this country 16 years ago to get rid of animal carcasses. It uses lye, 300-degree heat and 60 pounds of pressure per square inch to destroy bodies in big stainless-steel cylinders that are similar to pressure cookers.

No funeral homes in the U.S. — or anywhere else in the world, as far as the equipment manufacturer knows — offer it. In fact, only two U.S. medical centers use it on human bodies, and only on cadavers donated for research.

But because of its environmental advantages, some in the funeral industry say it could someday rival burial and cremation.


"It's not often that a truly game-changing technology comes along in the funeral service," the newsletter Funeral Service Insider said in September. But "we might have gotten a hold of one."

Procedure faces tough public relations
Getting the public to accept a process that strikes some as ghastly may be the biggest challenge. Psychopaths and dictators have used acid or lye to torture or erase their victims, and legislation to make alkaline hydrolysis available to the public in New York state was branded "Hannibal Lecter's bill" in a play on the movie character's sadism.

Alkaline hydrolysis is legal in Minnesota and in New Hampshire, where a Manchester funeral director is pushing to offer it. But he has yet to line up the necessary regulatory approvals, and some New Hampshire lawmakers want to repeal the little-noticed 2006 state law legalizing it.

"We believe this process, which enables a portion of human remains to be flushed down a drain, to be undignified," said Patrick McGee, a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester.

State Rep. Barbara French said she, for one, might choose alkaline hydrolysis.

"I'm getting near that age and thought about cremation, but this is equally as good and less of an environmental problem," the 81-year-old lawmaker said. "It doesn't bother me any more than being burned up. Cremation, you're burned up. I've thought about it, but I'm dead."

In addition to the liquid, the process leaves a dry bone residue similar in appearance and volume to cremated remains. It could be returned to the family in an urn or buried in a cemetery.

Down the drain
The coffee-colored liquid has the consistency of motor oil and a strong ammonia smell. But proponents say it is sterile and can, in most cases, be safely poured down the drain, provided the operation has the necessary permits.

Alkaline hydrolysis doesn't take up as much space in cemeteries as burial. And the process could ease concerns about crematorium emissions, including carbon dioxide as well as mercury from silver dental fillings.

The University of Florida in Gainesville and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., have used alkaline hydrolysis to dispose of cadavers since the mid-1990s and 2005, respectively.

Brad Crain, president of BioSafe Engineering, the Brownsburg, Ind., company that makes the steel cylinders, estimated 40 to 50 other facilities use them on human medical waste, animal carcasses or both. The users include veterinary schools, universities, pharmaceutical companies and the U.S. government.

Liquid waste from cadavers goes down the drain at both the Mayo Clinic and the University of Florida, as does the liquid residue from human tissue and animal carcasses at alkaline hydrolysis sites elsewhere.

One funeral home weighs option
Manchester funeral director Chad Corbin wants to operate a $300,000 cylinder in New Hampshire. He said that an alkaline hydrolysis operation is more expensive to set up than a crematorium but that he would charge customers about as much as he would for cremation.

George Carlson, an industrial-waste manager for the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, said things the public might find more troubling routinely flow into sewage treatment plants in the U.S. all the time. That includes blood and spillover embalming fluid from funeral homes.

The department issued a permit to Corbin last year, but he let the deal on the property fall through because of delays in getting the other necessary permits. Now he must go through the process all over again, and there is gathering resistance. But he said he is undeterred.

"I don't know how long it will take," he said recently, "but eventually it will happen."


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I would have thought California would be the first to outlaw balls....

ha! .. somebody will be calling for a ban on 'horns' one
day, or at least for a change of name .. maybe 'watch outers'
or 'warning sounders' or something .. wouldn't be 'f'offers' ..

lol .. so that's why he left .. blow me down ..

This is why Matt left Florida?
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State moves to ban fake testicles on vehicles
Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:03pm EDT

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Senate lawmakers in Florida have voted to ban the fake bull testicles that dangle from the trailer hitches of many trucks and cars throughout the state.

Republican Sen. Cary Baker, a gun shop owner from Eustis, Florida, called the adornments offensive and proposed the ban. Motorists would be fined $60 for displaying the novelty items, which are known by brand names like "Truck Nutz" and resemble the south end of a bull moving north.

The Florida Senate voted last week to add the measure to a broader transportation bill, but it is not included in the House version.

In a spirited debate laced with double entendre, Senate lawmakers questioned whether the state should curtail freedom of expression in vehicle accessories.

Critics of the ban included the Senate Rules Chairman, Sen. Jim King, a Jacksonville Republican whose truck sported a pair until his wife protested.

The bill's sponsor doubted it would succeed.

"It's probably not going to make it through the process," Baker said on Thursday. "It won't be much of story in a few days."

Stop sign for the Amish?

True, but L.U.S.T. is such a great acronym, especially from government.

. The Lust money is actually part of the Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust Fund, and each time many of us gas up, we pay into the fund. The Fund was set up in 1986 and is financed by a 0.1 cent tax on each gallon of motor fuel sold nationwide, according to the EPA. Except it's not, as a member of the San Francisco Biofuels group recently discovered when driving through Arizona. During one fill-up (at Western States Petroleum in Phoenix), the driver bought biodiesel and saved about $20 on a $42 bill because of two discounts for the "Federal L.U.S.T. tax" and a "Agri-Biodsl Price Inscentiv". The driver claims each discount saved $10.40, which is far more than the EPA's 0.1 cent a gallon. However this driver received the discount, it prompted me to look into this LUST tax a little bit and see how it relates to biofuels.

The LUST Fund is supposed to pay to clean up leaking underground gasoline storage tanks when a responsible party cannot be found, and it is used to enforce the laws when one can be found. But it seems more money is going in to the Fund than is being taken out to pay for clean up and a lot of people aren't happy with the LUST tax. The Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America, for example, is adamantly opposed to the way the LUST Trust Fund has been applied in recent years. They claim the fund has got about $2.3 billion in the bank, and $200 million are added each year. On top of this, only about $75 million is taken out annually for cleaning up messes across the country. Sites around the country need to be cleaned up because the petroleum in the tanks is leaking into the groundwater. Since biofuels contain less petroleum (or none) than standard fuels, anecdotal evidence from the drive through Arizona implies that biofuels are not subject to the LUST tax. I have not been able to confirm or deny this, but will do a little more research for a future post. Anyone out there have any knowledge on this topic

A Federal tax on LUST?

NZ man sentenced after claiming to have been raped by a wombat
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A New Zealand man who claimed to have been left speaking Australian after being raped by a wombat has been sentenced to 75 hours' community work for his trouble.

Arthur Ross Cradock, a 48-year-old orchard worker, admitted in the Nelson District Court yesterday to the charge of using a phone for a fictitious purpose, after calling police with the message, "I've been raped by a wombat".

Police prosecutor Sergeant Chris Stringer told the court that on the afternoon of February 11 Cradock called the police communications centre, threatening to "smash the filth" if they arrived at his home that night.

When asked if he had an emergency, he replied "yes", Mr Stringer said.

On a second subsequent call to the communications centre, Cradock told police he was being raped by a wombat at his Motueka address, and sought their immediate help.

He called police again soon after, and gave his full name, saying he wanted to withdraw the complaint.

"I'll retract the rape complaint from the wombat, because he's pulled out," Cradock told the operator at the communications centre, who had no idea what he was talking about, Mr Stringer said.

"Apart from speaking Australian now, I'm pretty all right you know, I didn't hurt my bum at all," Cradock then told the operator.

Mr Stringer said alcohol had played a big part in Cradock's life. However, defence lawyer Michael Vesty said alcohol was not a problem that day.

Judge Richard Russell said he was not quite sure what motivated Cradock to make those statements to the police.

In sentencing, he warned Cradock not to do it again

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/03/27/1206207282301.html

Client #9

Love Client #9

Tooooo Funnneee!

Uhh, who's wearing this?

Nicely done 1960's memories...good sound tracks and facts and figures...

Copy and paste into your browser...

http://cruzintheavenue.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

White Ute - Inches From Disaster

http://www.thatsnotnews.com/news/white_ute_inches_from_disaster

MAKE SURE THE SPONGE IS WET!

The bank, eh?

Tough street-racing law nabs 85-year-old
Fri Jan 4, 2008

TORONTO (Reuters) - A new law meant to help crack down on young Canadian street racers in their souped up cars has nabbed an octogenarian in his Oldsmobile.

The 85-year-old man is one of 2,300 drivers across Ontario to be charged under new legislation, designed to combat "street racing, stunts and contests", since it came into effect three months ago -- and he's the oldest.

The man was pulled over after allegedly driving 161 kilometers per hour (100 mph) this week on a main highway north of Toronto, where the speed limit is 100 km/h, Ontario Provincial Police said.

"It really doesn't matter the age of the person or whether they're trying to race another car," OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley said on Friday. "The consequences of the crashes and the laws of physics are always in effect."

Under the street racing legislation, a person is charged if they are driving 50 km/h more than the posted speed limit.

"Street racing was probably a bad title for it, extreme driving probably would have been better," Woolley noted.

Under the legislation, the 85-year-old could face a minimum C$2,000 ($2,000) fine. His license has been suspended and his car impounded for a week.

Woolley said that, in the case of the 85-year-old, a police officer driving in a marked car saw the Oldsmobile and tried to get the driver's attention, honking her horn and waving.

"He flew past her," said Woolley, adding he was going about 140 km/h at the time -- and then speeded up.

When he finally stopped, the man told the officer he was going to the bank and planned to go shopping, Woolley said.

"When she informed him that his car was being impounded for a week, he said: 'God damn, you're not taking my car, are ya?'" Woolley said, adding the man later apologized for swearing, and the officer drove him to the bank.

Until this week, two 75-year-old men were the oldest to be charged under the law. The youngest is a 16-year-old woman. Most are men in their 20s.

(Editing by Rob Wilson)

too damm funny

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round to it...get it lol

Hall monitors. Get it?

I'll tell my son to cancel his Volvo order, and give him back the zillions of his Legos I've stored in the garage. Thanks!