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If completely unfamiliar with how MediaWiki works, this guide is for you. See table of contents to skip around to what you need. | |||
== Terminology == | |||
So that we share the same language, please commit the following terms to memory. | |||
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| '''Wiki''' || A website that has a system in place to allow collaborative editing rather than a central authority dictating content, such as a blog. | |||
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| [[wikipedia:Main Page|'''Wikipedia''']] || More properly known as the ''English'' Wikipedia, it is the online encyclopedia that everyone knows of.<ref> Keep in mind that there are "wikipedias" in other languages, such as [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Portada Spanish] and [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_principale Italian]. [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Complete_list_of_Wikimedia_projects Click me] for a full list.</ref> | |||
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| [https://wikimediafoundation.org/ '''Wikimedia'''] || A non-profit foundation that performs the adminstration and systems administrative upkeep of the various language editions of Wikipedia. | |||
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| [[mw:MediaWiki|'''MediaWiki''']] || A [[wikipedia:Free and open-source software|'''free and open source''']] software that is designed to provide a wiki-style of editing to a website. This software is what runs this very website. | |||
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== Footnotes == | |||
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[[Category:Meta]] | [[Category:Meta]] | ||