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lipu ni li toki e nimi suli pi nasin MediaWiki.
lipu ni o pona tawa ante toki. ona li wile ala toki e nimi ale pi nasin MediaWiki, li wile toki e nimi suli ona taso. ni la ona li pona tawa ni: jan li open e ante toki pi nasin MediaWiki li ante e kipisi toki pi suli kepeken nanpa wan.
lipu ni o lon toki ale.
nimi pi nasin MediaWiki en nimi pi ilo sona li lon lipu. sina ken lukin e lipu "sona namako pi lipu ni".
sitelen pi sijelo suli li toki e sona suli lon nimi ni: jan mute li ante ike e toki ona.
sitelen li lon poka pi nimi mute. ona li ken pana ni e sona:
ni li nasin tawa ni: lipu Wikipesija pi toki Inli la lipu sona li lon li toki e ijo ni. lon poka lipu la sina ken lukin e ni: nasin li lon tawa lipu ni pi toki ante. | |
ni li nasin tawa ni: lipu Wiktionary pi toki Inli la lipu li toki e sona nimi pi ijo ni. lon anpa lipu la sina ken lukin e ni: nimi li lon toki ante. toki sina li lon ala lipu la, o pana e ona. | |
ni li nasin tawa ni: lipu MediaWiki la lipu li toki e sona ilo. |
The glossary is sorted alphabetically by the English term.
A
- sijelo | toki Inli: account
- A user account; a stored record of information about a user of a wiki, identified by a username.
- jan lawa | toki Inli: administrator
- A user that has more permissions than a regular user. Most often, this includes the permissions to block and unblock users, to edit protected pages, and to delete, undelete, protect, and unprotect pages. Also known in English as "admin" or "sysop".
- jan pi nimi ala | toki Inli: anonymous
- A user who didn't log in. Such a user is identified by an IP address in history, recent changes, logs, etc.
- (toki) tan | toki Inli: attribution
- The process of giving credit.
B
- namako | toki Inli: beta
- toki lili pi ijo namako
- ijo namako | toki Inli: beta feature
- A new function that is enabled on a wiki site for testing by users.
- weka e ken (pali); weka pi ken (pali) | toki Inli: block
- Verb: Disable a user's ability to edit. Noun: An instance of blocking. Administrators of wiki sites block users if they publish spam or nonsense or disrupt the wiki in other ways.
- sijelo ilo | toki Inli: bot
- ilo pi jan ala li ante mute e lipu.
- ilo lukin (lipu) | toki Inli: browser
- Short for "web browser". A computer application that lets people read websites. Common web browsers are Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Samsung Internet, Opera, and Tor Browser.
C
- sona ilo | toki Inli: cache
- A family of computer technologies that store data in a location that allows faster access. It usually improves performance, but sometimes it may cause outdated information to be shown to users. "Cleaning" or "purging" the cache forces new data to be shown, but may also cause a temporary performance slowdown.
- (pali/pana/...) ala | toki Inli: cancel
- Verb: Stop an operation without saving the work that was done until now. This most often appears on buttons.
- toki sitelen | toki Inli: caption
- toki lili ni li pana sona e sitelen lukin.
- ilo CAPTCHA | toki Inli: CAPTCHA
- A test that checks whether a user is a human or a bot, for example, by requiring the user to type deformed characters when creating an account or adding an external link. This is a technical term, and it doesn't have to be translated.
- suli sitelen li suli ala | toki Inli: case-insensitive
- The opposite of case-sensitive: Not distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters; treating "Cat" and "cat" as functionally the same string.
- suli sitelen li suli | toki Inli: case-sensitive
- Distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters; treating "Cat" and "cat" as different strings.
- kulupu (lipu/ijo) | toki Inli: category
- A group of related wiki pages. For example, the articles "Dog", "Mouse", and "Horse" can all belong to the category "Animals". This word is also used as the namespace prefix for category pages.
- lipu kulupu | toki Inli: category page
- A wiki page in the Category namespace. A part of its content is generated automatically by creating a list of pages that are tagged as belonging to this category. It can also have more text that explains the category. A category page can itself belong to other categories, in which case it's called a subcategory of these categories.
- toki kulupu | toki Inli: category talk
- Short for "category talk page". Used as the namespace prefix for category talk pages.
- lipu pi toki kulupu | toki Inli: category talk page
- A talk page associated with a category page.
- ante | toki Inli: change
- When talking about wiki pages, same as edit.
- sitelen (nimi) | toki Inli: character
- A letter (a, b, c, ا, ب, ت, э, ю, я, क, च, ट, ⼈, ⼉, ⼊), a digit (1, 2, 3), a punctuation mark (., !, ?), an operator (+, -), etc.
- ilo lukin | toki Inli: client
- A computer program that retrieves information from a server.
- lipu Commons | toki Inli: Commons
- Short for "Wikimedia Commons". Not to be confused with Creative Commons.
- lipu; ijo; insa | toki Inli: content
- Everything that is shown on wiki pages and that users can edit: text, images, templates, etc.
- kipisi (lipu); jo (lipu) | toki Inli: contents
- Short for "table of contents".
- lipu (sona) | toki Inli: content page
- A wiki page in the main namespace of a wiki.
- pali | toki Inli: contribution
- Any action that a user does to change the content of a wiki: editing, rollbacking, translating, uploading files, etc. Different from donation.
- nanpa sona alasa | toki Inli: cookie
- A small piece of information sent by a server to the browser and then returned by the browser each time it accesses that server. It is mostly used to identify the users and store information about them. Users usually don't deal with them directly, but they are mentioned in the interface because they may have privacy implications.
- kulupu Creative Commons | toki Inli: Creative Commons
- An international network of organizations that write standardized licenses for free sharing of cultural works (text, images, video, etc.) and help people use these licenses. Most content on Wikimedia wikis is published under Creative Commons licenses.
- nimi tan | toki Inli: credit
- An explicit acknowledgment of a source of text or media using the name of an author or an organization, a link to a website from which the information was copied, etc.
- toki ilo CSS | toki Inli: CSS
- A language for designing web pages. Short for "Cascading Style Sheets". This is a technical term, and it doesn't have to be translated.
D
- weka (e lipu); weka (lipu) | toki Inli: delete
- Verb: Remove a page from a wiki, done by an administrator. A deleted page can usually be restored.
- ilo suli | toki Inli: desktop
- Related to using a wiki in a browser on a desktop or a laptop computer, with a large screen and a physical keyboard. Different from mobile.
- jan pi pali ilo | toki Inli: developer
- A programmer who develops the code that runs a wiki: MediaWiki, templates, modules, gadgets, bots, tools, etc.
- ante | toki Inli: diff
- Short for the English word "difference". Refers to a comparison between two versions of a wiki page.
- toki | toki Inli: discussion
- Largely the same thing as talk, but this other word can be used in contexts that are more social and less technical.
- (pana) mani | toki Inli: donation
- A gift of money or something else to the person or the organization that manages a wiki site. Different from contribution.
- jo (e lipu) | toki Inli: download
- Verb: Copy a file from a website to a local device. The opposite of upload.
E
- ante | toki Inli: edit
- Verb: Change the content of a wiki page. Noun: Any action of editing a wiki page.
- jan sitelen/ante/pali | toki Inli: editor (user)
- A user who edits a wiki page.
- nasin sitelen/ante/pali | toki Inli: editor (program)
- A feature of MediaWiki or another program that allows editing wiki pages. For example: Visual editor, 2010 wikitext editor, 2017 wikitext editor, Android app editor, etc.
- toki ante | toki Inli: edit summary
- A brief description of the changes the user has made in an edit.
- li poki e lipu (la ona li ken tawa ma ante) | toki Inli: export
- Verb: Download the content of one or more wiki pages as a file that can be imported to another wiki.
- linja tawa lipu suli ante | toki Inli: external link
- A link to a page on another website.
F
- sitelen; ijo | toki Inli: file
- A piece of information stored on a computer storage device and identified by a name. In MediaWiki, files are usually images (JPG, PNG, SVG), audio clips (OGG), videos (WEBM), and documents (PDF, DjVu). This word is also used as the namespace prefix for file pages: If the filename is "Taj Mahal.jpg", the file page name is "File:Taj Mahal.jpg".
- nimi sitelen; nimi ijo | toki Inli: filename
- The name of a file. Begins with a description of the file's content and ends with an extension (suffix) that identifies the file type. For example, ".jpg" is an extension for photograph files, and "Taj Mahal.jpg" is a good name for a file that includes a photograph of the Taj Mahal.
- lipu sitelen; lipu ijo | toki Inli: file page
- A wiki page that displays a file and information about it: on which wiki pages this file is used, who uploaded it, the file's license, and so on.
- toki sitelen; toki ijo | toki Inli: file talk
- A talk page associated with a file page. If the filename is "Taj Mahal.jpg", the file talk page's title is "File talk:Taj Mahal.jpg".
- ken; tawa jan ale | toki Inli: free
- This doesn't mean "costing zero dollars". This refers to the freedom that the users have to read, copy, modify, and distribute the content of a wiki. It's a synonym of "liberated", "unconstrained", etc. See also Definition of Free Cultural Works.
- lawa kepeken ken | toki Inli: free license
- A license that allows free use text or media. Note that the word for "free" here must be the same as in the term free.
- fuzzy | toki Inli: fuzzy
- See outdated.
G
- ilo JavaScript kulupu | toki Inli: gadget
- Gadgets are pieces of JavaScript code that editors can write on a wiki site to enhance the site's functionality. The gadgets' code is stored on wiki pages. This word is also used as the namespace prefix for gadget pages.
- lipu pi ilo JavaScript kulupu | toki Inli: gadget page
- A wiki page in the Gadget namespace. It stores the source code for a gadget.
- toki pi ilo JavaScript kulupu | toki Inli: gadget talk
- Short for "gadget talk page". This word is also used as the namespace prefix for gadget talk pages.
- lipu toki pi ilo JavaScript kulupu | toki Inli: gadget talk page
- A talk page associated with a gadget page.
- gender | toki Inli: gender
- When this word appears as
{{GENDER:
, it must not be translated. MediaWiki supports writing messages differently for users who defined that they should be described as "he", or "she", or didn't explicitly define it. See the page Gender. - lipu suli kulupu; kulupu pi lipu suli | toki Inli: global
- Pertaining to all the wikis in a wiki family. For example, a usual block on the Spanish Wikipedia disallows the user to edit pages only on the Spanish Wikipedia, but a global block disallows editing all the wikis: Wikipedia in all languages, Wikivoyage in all languages, etc.
H
- sona pali | toki Inli: help
- Technical documentation for using the wiki. This word is also used as the namespace prefix for help pages.
- lipu pi sona pali | toki Inli: help page
- A wiki page in the Help namespace.
- toki pi sona pali | toki Inli: help talk
- Short for "help talk page". Used as the namespace prefix for help talk pages.
- lipu toki pi sona pali | toki Inli: help talk page
- A talk page associated with a help page.
- (lipu) pini | toki Inli: history
- Short for "page history" or "version history". A list of versions of a wiki page, showing the time, the user, the edit summary, and other information about each revision.
- lipu open | toki Inli: home
- Short for "home page".
- lipu open | toki Inli: home page
- Same as main page, especially on the mobile site.
I
- nimi nanpa | toki Inli: id
- Short for "identifier". A number or a string that refers to something: a users, a page, a version, etc.
- li kama (e lipu tan poki tan ma lipu ante) | toki Inli: import
- Verb: Add pages to a wiki from a file that was exported from another wiki, or directly from another wiki in the wiki family.
- linja tawa toki ante | toki Inli: interlanguage link
- A link to a page about the same topic in a wiki in another language.
- linja lon lipu suli ni | toki Inli: internal link
- A link to another page on the same wiki.
- linja tawa lipu suli ante | toki Inli: interwiki link
- A link to a page on another wiki using specific syntax.
- ike | toki Inli: invalid
- Technically unacceptable. For example, a page title is invalid if it includes the character
{
, which is forbidden in titles. - kepeken (e kipisi Lua) | toki Inli: invoke
- Verb: Call a module, run it, and insert the result of the call into a wiki page. A similar operation with templates is called transclusion.
- nanpa/nimi IP | toki Inli: IP address
- A number that identifies a computer in a network. In MediaWiki, IP addresses are used to attribute edits and other actions to anonymous users.
- ijo (pi lipu Wikitata) | toki Inli: item
- On Wikidata, an entity that represents a thing in the world. It is identified by the letter Q followed by a unique number, and it may have labels in any language. Wikidata items have many uses, but their simplest and most common use is to connect Wikipedia articles in different languages in a way that allows the display of interlanguage links. See the Wikidata Glossary.
J
- toki ilo JavaScript | toki Inli: JavaScript
- A programming language. In MediaWiki, it's used for gadgets and parts of MediaWiki itself.
- toki ilo JSON | toki Inli: JSON
- A data file format. This is a technical term, and it doesn't have to be translated.
L
- nimi (pi lipu Wikitata) | toki Inli: label
- A name of a Wikidata item in a human language. See the Wikidata Glossary.
- sona sitelen | toki Inli: legend
- A list of symbols, colors, or abbreviations that are used in a chart, table, etc.
- linja (tawa) | toki Inli: link
- A piece of text or an image that the user can click to go to another web page.
- lawa kepeken | toki Inli: license
- A legal document that specifies the terms of use for a text, an image, or a video, especially with regard to copyright law.
- pini (pali) | toki Inli: log
- An automatically generated list of actions of a certain type, showing when and by which user they were performed, as well as other details, according to the type of action. Examples of logged actions are account creation, page deletion, and user blocking.
- lon sijelo | toki Inli: log in
- Verb: Identify oneself to the wiki site as the owner of an account. A user who has logged in is not anonymous, and that user's edits and actions are attributed to the username in the page history and in the logs.
- weka tan sijelo | toki Inli: log out
- Verb: Disconnect from the account and become anonymous.
M
- lipu sona | toki Inli: main
- When discussing namespaces: The namespace of a wiki, in which the content pages of a wiki are stored. Opposed to other namespaces, such as Talk, User, Category, Template, etc. Titles of pages in the main namespace don't have a prefix.
- lipu open | toki Inli: main page
- A wiki page that is the first page shown to the visitors of a wiki site. May be called "home page" or "front page" in other publications.
- sitelen | toki Inli: media
- This doesn't mean "journalism" or "mass communication". This is short for "multimedia". It is also used as a virtual namespace prefix for linking to files.
- nasin MesijaWiki | toki Inli: MediaWiki
- A software package for running wiki sites. Originally developed for Wikipedia, and also used on many other websites, most of which are not related to Wikipedia. This word is also used as the namespace prefix for pages for local customization of user interface messages.
- toki pi nasin MesijaWiki | toki Inli: MediaWiki talk
- Short for "MediaWiki talk page". Used as the namespace prefix for MediaWiki talk pages.
- lipu toki pi nasin MesijaWiki | toki Inli: MediaWiki talk page
- A talk page associated with a page in the MediaWiki namespace.
- toki (pi ilo lipu) | toki Inli: message
- A string that appears in the user interface of a MediaWiki website. Messages can be translated on translatewiki. When needed, they can be customized locally in the MediaWiki namespace, and this will override the translation written on translatewiki.
- nasin MIME | toki Inli: MIME
- A technology for identifying file types on the Internet, for example "application/pdf", "image/png", etc. This is a technical term, and it doesn't have to be translated.
- ilo lili | toki Inli: mobile
- Related to using a wiki on a mobile device, such as a phone or a tablet, with a small screen and no physical keyboard. Different from desktop.
- toki Lua la kipisi | toki Inli: module
- A piece of code that can be invoked from wiki pages and adds some text to these pages. Modules are similar to templates, but templates are written in wikitext and modules are written in the Lua programming language. This word is also used as the namespace prefix for module pages.
- toki Lua la lipu kipisi | toki Inli: module page
- A wiki page in the Module namespace. It stores the source code for a module and the module's usage documentation.
- toki Lua la toki kipisi | toki Inli: module talk
- Short for "module talk page". This word is also used as the namespace prefix for module talk pages.
- toki Lua la lipu pi toki kipisi | toki Inli: module talk page
- A talk page associated with a module page.
- ante e nimi (lipu/sitelen) | toki Inli: move
- Verb: Rename a page or a file. Noun: An action of renaming a page or a file.
- sitelen | toki Inli: multimedia
- This is a general name for various media files stored in a media repository. For example: image file, audio file, video file, etc. Often shortened to "media".
N
- poki nimi | toki Inli: namespace
- Every page on a wiki belongs to a namespace. The main content pages of a wiki are said to belong to the main namespace, and their titles have no prefix. Because of this, "main" is often written in parentheses "(main)". Pages in other namespaces have a prefix, such as "Talk:", "User:", "Special:", etc.
O
- majuna | toki Inli: outdated
- In translatewiki, an outdated translated message must be carefully reviewed and, in most cases, fixed by the translator. This condition is also known as "fuzzy". It appears with a yellow "outdated" mark in the translation interface. A message can become outdated for three reasons: 1. The source message was updated after it was translated; 2. It has technical mistakes, for example invalid link syntax; 3. Another translatewiki editor noticed a mistake in it and manually marked it as outdated.
P
- lipu | toki Inli: page
- Any page on a MediaWiki site. Can be an editable wiki page or a special page.
- wile | toki Inli: parameter (templates)
- In templates, modules, and parser functions: values that are sent to the template or the modules to tell it with which data to work.
- wile | toki Inli: parameter (translatewiki)
- When translating MediaWiki messages: pieces of messages that look like
$1
,$2
,$3
, and are replaced by something, such as numbers, usernames, or page titles. In translatable pages, the dollar sign can also be followed by words, e.g.$page
. In some other projects, parameters can look differently, e.g.%d
or%(page)
. - ilo pi pali lipu | toki Inli: parser
- A component of MediaWiki that reads wikitext and converts it to formatted text that is shown to readers.
- kipisi pi nasin MesijaWiki | toki Inli: parser function
- A short wikitext function that can compute a value or make a simple decision based on data. Usually used in the wikitext of templates.
- nimi open | toki Inli: password
- A secret string that the user writes to identify while logging in.
- ken | toki Inli: permission
- Same as right.
- lili suno | toki Inli: pixel
- A dot on a computer screen. Used for measuring size and resolution of images.
- plural | toki Inli: plural
- When this word appears as
{{PLURAL:
, it must not be translated. MediaWiki supports writing messages according to different numbers. See the page Plural. - wile | toki Inli: preferences
- Every user's personal choices about how a wiki site works: how to show the preview, whether links should be underlined, which entries the watchlist shows and hides, etc.
- open nimi | toki Inli: prefix
- The first characters of a string. In MediaWiki, prefixes are most often used for namespace names (Category: in "Category:Cities in Japan") and interlanguage links (fr: in fr:Pain au chocolat).
- lipu ken | toki Inli: preview
- Showing how the page will look before publishing it.
- ma; pali | toki Inli: project
- In MediaWiki, this is used to describe a wiki and the community of people editing it. For example, the French Wikipedia, the Russian Wikisource, Wikidata, Commons, and translatewiki are projects.
- poki nimi pali | toki Inli: project namespace
- "Project" is one of the namespaces on all wikis. Pages in this namespace are used for several purposes, for example project policies, discussions among projects participants, lists of suggested tasks to work on, and so on. When pages in this namespace are displayed, this word is replaced with the project name. For example, in the English Wikipedia, the page "Project:About" is the same as "Wikipedia:About". Both titles can be used as links, but "Wikipedia:About" is displayed to readers.
- toki pali | toki Inli: project talk
- A project talk page is a talk page associated with a page in the project namespace. For example, if the project page title is "Wikipedia:About", the project talk page title is "Wikipedia talk:About".
- awen | toki Inli: protect
- Verb: Allow only some users to edit a page, done by an administrator.
- awen | toki Inli: protection
- The act of protecting a page.
- ilo linja | toki Inli: proxy
- An intermediary computer that allows people to connect to the Internet through it.
- pana; pali | toki Inli: publish
- Verb: Save a wiki page after creating or editing it and make it readable by everyone.
Q
- wile sona | toki Inli: query
- A request for information that is sent by a user to a server. For example, a search string or a request for a list of pages that begin with certain letters. The software sending the query is also known as a "client".
R
- sitelen taso | toki Inli: raw
- Adjective: In the most basic representation. For example, the raw watchlist is a list of pages on the watchlist in plain text.
- pali sin (pi tenpo poka) | toki Inli: recent changes
- A special page at Special:RecentChanges, which shows all the recent edits that were made in a wiki.
- tawa; pali e lipu tawa; lipu tawa | toki Inli: redirect
- Verb: Automatically transfer the user from one page to another; Create a redirect page. Noun: Short for "redirect page".
- lipu tawa | toki Inli: redirect page
- A page that immediately takes the user to another specified page when the user tries to access it.
- ante | toki Inli: remix
- Verb: Copy content from somewhere (for example, a website), and modify it.
- suli (sitelen) | toki Inli: resolution
- The quality of an image, measured in pixel count.
- sin | toki Inli: restore
- Verb: Bring a page that was deleted back into the wiki.
- li kama (e sona) | toki Inli: retrieve
- Verb: Fetch information from a server.
- weka | toki Inli: revert
- Verb: Change the page in a way that restores its content to an earlier revision.
- ante; lipu tenpo | toki Inli: revision
- Usually the same as version.
- ken | toki Inli: right
- A permission to perform an action, such as editing, deleting, or protecting a page, to view certain special pages or logs, to block users, etc.
- weka wawa | toki Inli: rollback
- Verb: Revert a page in one click. This action is usually available only to some users, for example administrators.
S
- awen; pana | toki Inli: save
- Verb: Store information persistently, but not necessarily make it public. Saving something in a way that is readable to others is called publishing, and these words should be different. For example, a user's preferences are saved, but not published.
- alasa | toki Inli: search
- Verb: Look for information, usually by writing one or more words in the wiki's internal search engine. Noun: the action of searching, and its results (what was found).
- kipisi | toki Inli: section
- A part of a wiki page that begins with a heading, and may include one or more paragraphs, and possibly sub-sections.
- awen lili | toki Inli: semi-protected
- Protected less strictly than the usual protection. Most often, fully protected pages can be edited only by administrators, and semi-protected pages can be edited by users who created their account a specific number of days ago or made a specific number of edits, but the actual configuration may be different on different wikis.
- poki sona | toki Inli: server
- A computer that is connected to a network and that stores information that can be retrieved by users. The software users use to connect to a server is called a "client".
- SITENAME | toki Inli: SITENAME
- When this word appears as
{{SITENAME}}
, it must not be translated. This is automatically replaced with the name of the website. For example, on Wikipedia, "About {{SITENAME}}" is shown as "About Wikipedia". - tan sona | toki Inli: source (content)
- When discussing the content of wikis: The source of information on a wiki page or of a file. For example, a book or another website.
- toki ilo | toki Inli: source (wikitext)
- In MediaWiki user interface: The representation of a wiki page in wikitext, especially as opposed to the page as it shown to readers, or for visual editing.
- ilo | toki Inli: special
- Adjective: Used as the namespace prefix for special pages.
- lipu ilo | toki Inli: special page
- A page on a wiki that cannot be edited by users. Special pages provide various services, such as display of information about the wiki, Recent Changes, Watchlist, Statistics, and special administration and editing interfaces such as blocking, managing user rights, translation, etc. They are called "Special" because they are different from usual wiki pages. It's translated as "service (page)" in some languages.
- nimi; nanpa; sitelen | toki Inli: string
- A sequence of characters of any length. It is usually a word or a sentence, but in some cases it may be one character long or even empty (zero length).
- strong | toki Inli: strong
- When it appears as
<strong>
or</strong>
, it must not be translated. This is HTML code that makes the text bold. - kulupu insa | toki Inli: subcategory
- A category within another category. For example, "Cities in Paraguay" is a subcategory of "Cities in South America".
- toki ante; toki toki | toki Inli: summary
- Short for "edit summary".
T
- lipu jo | toki Inli: table of contents
- An automatically-generated list of section headings on a page. Usually appears near the top of the page.
- toki | toki Inli: talk
- Short for "talk page". This word is also used as the namespace prefix for talk pages associated with content pages (wiki pages in the main namespace).
- lipu toki | toki Inli: talk page
- A wiki page used for discussions between editors.
- kipisi; ilo | toki Inli: template
- A piece of text or code that can be embedded ("transcluded") in other pages. Common examples of templates are infoboxes, formatted citations, maintenance notices at the top of an article, etc. Templates are similar to modules, but templates are written in wikitext and modules are written in the Lua programming language. This word is also used as the namespace prefix for template pages.
- lipu kipisi | toki Inli: template page
- A wiki page in the Template namespace. It stores the source code for a template and the template's usage documentation.
- toki kipisi | toki Inli: template talk
- Short for "template talk page". This word is also used as the namespace prefix for template talk pages.
- lipu pi toki kipisi | toki Inli: template talk page
- A talk page associated with a template page.
- sitelen lili | toki Inli: thumbnail
- A small image, used as a compact representation of a larger image. Usually shown with a frame with a caption under it. Clicking the thumbnail shows the full-size image.
- nimi (lipu) | toki Inli: title
- The name of a page.
- kepeken (lipu) | toki Inli: transclusion
- Inclusion or embedding of one wiki page into another. Most often, this is done with templates. A similar operation with modules is called invocation.
U
- weka | toki Inli: undo
- While reviewing page version: To revert a page, but possibly make some more changes and write a manual edit summary. Different from rollback, which is done in one click and restores everything. While editing a page: To erase the last change done to the content, reverting it to an older state. This action is available in web browsers and in many text editing applications.
- weka e awen | toki Inli: unprotect
- Verb: The opposite of protect: Remove the protection from a page and make it editable by all users.
- lukin ala e ante | toki Inli: unwatch
- Verb: The opposite of watch: Unwatching a page means removing it from the user's watchlist.
- pana (e sitelen) | toki Inli: upload
- Verb: Copy a file from a local device to a website. The opposite of download.
- nimi URL | toki Inli: URL
- A technical term for a web address, such as
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruba
. Short for "Uniform Resource Locator". - jan | toki Inli: user
- Somebody who uses a wiki, usually reading the information on it, or editing (changing) it. This may refer to a human, and also to a computer program, usually a bot. The user may be anonymous or identified using an account. This word is also used as the namespace prefix for user pages.
- nimi (jan) | toki Inli: username
- The name of a user account. It may be the real name of a person or a nickname.
- lipu jan | toki Inli: user page
- A wiki page in the User namespace. If the username is "Alice", the user page's title is "User:Alice". Every user with an account has a user page, and can write things there, for example information about themselves or what they do on the wiki.
- toki jan | toki Inli: user talk
- Short for "user talk page". Used as the namespace prefix for user talk pages.
- lipu pi toki jan | toki Inli: user talk page
- A talk page associated with a user page. If the username is "Alice", the user talk page's title is "User talk:Alice". The user talk page is used for sending messages to a user. These messages are not private, and can be read by everyone who can read the wiki.
V
- lipu tenpo | toki Inli: version
- The state of a wiki page's content after an edit. A wiki page that has just been created has one version. Every edit creates another version. A version has an author (user) and a time.
- lukin | toki Inli: view
- Look at something, such as a page, a file, a table, etc. Often contrasted with edit: for example, regular users can only view protected pages, but administrators can edit them.
- ante tan lukin | toki Inli: visual editing
- Editing while seeing the page similarly to how it's rendered to users: with images, headings, etc., and without seeing wiki syntax. This is similar to using a word processor, like Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice, and also known by the jargon term "WYSIWYG" ("what you see is what you get"). Compare with wikitext editing.
W
- sona e ante [lon lipu]; lukin [lon lipu lukin, lon ilo ante] | toki Inli: watch
- Verb: Add a page it to the user's watchlist.
- lipu lukin | toki Inli: watchlist
- A special page that shows recent changes in a list of pages that the user selected.
- ma kulupu; lipu kulupu | toki Inli: wiki
- A website that anyone can edit. A wiki contains many wiki pages. This is different from other websites, on which readers can read the content, but only a small group of people can edit it, or social networks on which users can write things about themselves and comment on other people's posts, but cannot change what other people write. When translating the word wiki by itself or as part of another name, its spelling can be changed, but it should still sound similarly to "wiki".
- lipu pi ma kulupu; lipu kulupu | toki Inli: wiki page
- One web page on a wiki site.
- nasin pi toki ilo (MesijaWiki/<nasin ante>) | toki Inli: wiki syntax
- The syntax of wikitext.
- toki ilo (MesijaWiki/<nasin ante>) | toki Inli: wikitext
- The source code of wiki pages, and the language for formatting them. The language includes things like
[[]]
for links,#
for numbered lists, etc. Often contrasted with visual editing. - lipu Wikilipu | toki Inli: Wikibooks
- The open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit. A wiki website on which people write long-form textbooks under a free license. Managed by the Wikimedia Foundation. There are editions of Wikibooks in many languages. The "wiki" part should not be changed much, but the word "books" can be translated to your language.
- lipu Wikitata | toki Inli: Wikidata
- The free knowledge base that anyone can edit. A wiki website on which people curate structured machine-readable data for the use of other wikis under a free license. Managed by the Wikimedia Foundation. There is one Wikidata site, and it can include information in any language. The "wiki" part should not be changed much, but the word "data" can be translated to your language.
- lipu Wikinusu | toki Inli: Wikinews
- The free news source you can write. A wiki website on which people write news articles under a free license. Managed by the Wikimedia Foundation. There are editions of Wikinews in many languages. The "wiki" part should not be changed much, but the word "news" can be translated to your language.
- kulupu Wikimesija | toki Inli: Wikimedia
- The movement that operates Wikipedia and several other free knowledge wiki websites. Not to be confused with MediaWiki.
- lipu Wikimesija pi ijo kulupu | toki Inli: Wikimedia Commons
- A collection of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute. Media files that are stored on Wikimedia Commons can be used in any other Wikimedia wiki. Managed by the Wikimedia Foundation. This name is often shortened to "Commons" in English. The English word "commons" means "a public open area", and it can be translated. Into some languages, this name is translated as "wiki repository", "wiki sharing", etc. Not to be confused with Creative Commons.
- lipu Wikipesija | toki Inli: Wikipedia
- The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. A wiki website on which people write an encyclopedia under a free license. Managed by the Wikimedia Foundation. There are editions of Wikipedia in many languages. The spelling of this name can be adapted to your language, but it should still be recognizable as "Wikipedia".
- lipu Wikikoto | toki Inli: Wikiquote
- The free quote compendium that anyone can edit. A wiki website on which people maintain wiki pages with lists of quotes by famous people, from famous books or films, or about various topics. Managed by the Wikimedia Foundation. There are editions of Wikiquote in many languages. The "wiki" part should not be changed much, but the word "quote" can be translated to your language.
- lipu Wikisoso | toki Inli: Wikisource
- The free library that anyone can improve. A wiki website on which people maintain wiki pages with books and documents that were published elsewhere, which can be copied under a free license, and which can be useful for reading or as source material for Wikipedia and other wikis. Managed by the Wikimedia Foundation. There are editions of Wikisource in many languages. The "wiki" part should not be changed much, but the word "source" can be adapted to your language. For example, it was translated as "wikilibrary" into Russian.
- lipu Wikiwajasa | toki Inli: Wikivoyage
- The free worldwide travel guide that you can edit. A wiki website on which people write a travel guide under a free license. Managed by the Wikimedia Foundation. There are editions of Wikivoyage in many languages. The "wiki" part should not be changed much, but the word "voyage" can be translated to your language.
- lipu Wikinimi | toki Inli: Wiktionary
- The free dictionary. A wiki website on which people write a dictionary with word definitions and translations under a free license. Managed by the Wikimedia Foundation. There are editions of Wiktionary in many languages. The name is based on the words "wiki" and "dictionary"; the "wiki" part should not be changed much, but the word "(dic)tionary" can be adapted to your language.