Wikipedia:WikiSpeak

WikiSpeak is based on George Orwell's fictional language Newspeak, described in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as being "the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year". Although having its roots in English, WikiSpeak has a greatly reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar, suiting the totalitarian regime whose aim is to make any alternative thinking ("thoughtcrime") or speech impossible by removing any words or constructs describing the ideas of freedom or rebellion. "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

In an attempt to halt the "destruction of words", I offer this dictionary of WikiSpeak. Please feel to contribute so long as it doesn't breach any of wikipedia's increasingly arcane and bizarre !rules.

• Assume Good Faith: "Just admit I am right and be on your way."

• Attack site (also spelled BADSITE). Any website that's ever said anything rude about you.

• Automated tools

1. When used by an admin, an valuable time-saving device to automate repetitive tasks which would otherwise be extremely tedious.
2. When used by a non-admin, an abusive mechanism to artificially boost your edit count. Note that without the luxury of being able to delete the warning pages you accidentally create, it is impossible for a non-admin to hide the fact that you're doing an inept job.

• Charity. An organisation run by a small clique of friends, who despite being "unpaid" earn huge amounts from speaking engagements based solely on their position.

• Civility: The state two editors achieve when they are in agreement with one another.

• Conflict of Interest. "You understand the topic, so are banned from talking about it."

• consensus. One of the three states that can be reached at the end of a discussion after all parties have become thoroughly fed up with it; the alternatives are "no consensus" or "for pity's sake, I wish I'd never got involved in this". Consensus is calculated by counting the votes on either side of the debate, remembering that each vote cast by an editor you are on good terms should be counted at least twice.

• Election. Everyone votes on candidates, and then Jimbo chooses the winner(s) regardless of number of votes won.

• Encyclopedic
  • English: Comprehensive, complete, thorough, exhaustive. Example "Dekkappai's knowledge of Japanese erotic cinema is truly encyclopedic. You can't name an actress, film, or director in the area he doesn't know. Malleus Fatuarum, on the other hand, knows nothing about the subject. His knowledge of the subject is most assuredly not encyclopedic."
  • WikiSpeak: Limited, censored, excluded. Particularly with reference to subjects of which the writer disapproves. Example "'Japanese erotic cinema?' Huh? Porn, you mean! NOT ENCYCLOPEDIC! Delete!!!"

• Fair use. Picture you think is cool. See also unfair use.

• Founder. Jimmy Wales and anyone who says otherwise is not WP:AGF.

• Highly active user. User under the age of 14.

• Humor. Obscure in-joke nobody except you thinks is remotely funny.

• Ignore All Rules. Ignore all rules, except rules I agree with, which it's a blockable offense to ignore.

• Indefblock. Said something rude about an admin or one of his friends.

• In popular culture. In The Simpsons.

• Jimmy Wales. User who averages less than 100 mainspace edits a year, has made fewer contributions in seven years than a reasonably experienced user can make in a week and has not held any position for more than a year, but nonetheless knows better than you what the current issues affecting Wikipedia are.

• Moral support¹ - "I think you are an idiot"

• Moral support² - Ten other people already think you're an idiot and I want to be the one person here who doesn't get flamed

• respect. Often used as in "with respect", or "with all due respect", euphamisms for "I think you're talking bollox". Most frequently seen in the postings of editors with aspirations to become an administrator, or those who do not have the courage to say "I think you're talking bollox."

• personal attack is a wide ranging term applied liberally in the event that someone has pointed out a fault in either your logic, presentation, article quality, or other action on Wikipedia without saying "with respect." If an editor has decided not to start their post to your talkpage with "With all due respect", and indeed says "I think you're talking bollox", then you can return fire with "Please refrain from personal attacks." Appears on screen often as WP:NPA. Closely related to using "allcap blue civil".

• allcap blue civil. (appears on screen as such: CIVIL). Used in a similar way, often at the same time as, allcap blue NPA.

• Reliable source. Any source, no matter how insignificant, that agrees with you. See also unreliable source.

• Trolling
  • English: To search (for), to draw out, to entice; by extension, to disrupt the operation of an online community.
  • WikiSpeak: To disagree with someone with a higher edit count than you

• Unfair use.

1. Image uploaded by someone you don't like.
2. Image you think is porn.

• Unreliable source.
  1. Any source that disagrees with you, no matter what it is.
  2. Any source that it would involve more than 30 seconds effort to verify. Example: "I don't own a copy of The Moving Metropolis and it isn't in my school library. Therefore it is not a reliable source for articles about public transportation." (Note: this conversation really happened) (Also known as Print source)

• voting. Voting is evil. It interferes with the process of achieving consensus, as it does not allow the proper weighting to be given to the votes cast by those editors with whom you are on good terms.

• ! (exclamation mark) Means "Not". Used in front of whatever it is you are actually doing, for example !voting, means you are saying that you are not voting while you vote. Used preemptively to ward off having to later use allcap blue NPA and allcap blue civil when someone doesn't start their response "with respect".

• Wikilawyer. An editor that strictly enforces all Wikipedia policies, including guidelines and essays, which to a Wikilawyer, are just mislabelled policies. One exception is IAR, which is ironically ignored not enforced. The worst possible thing you can do is call a Wikilawyer a Wikilawyer. Recommend instead using !Wikilawyer.

• Wiki-drama (alt. Teh DRAMAZ, Teh DRAHMA). Noun. The label you give to a discussion that you're losing by being out-consensussed.

• Preventative. In terms of blocking, synonym for Punitive.

• Cool Down Blocks. 97.4% of all blocks are issued as cool down blocks. Please note, it is strictly against Wikipedia policy to call them this. You will indeed swiftly fail an RfA if you, at anytime, misuse the acronym WP:CDB.

• Good faith block. The other 2.6% of blocks are "good faith blocks". When you discover one of these, be sure to quickly do these two steps: a: add "endorse" on the talkpage of the editor that is blocked in good faith, thereby getting some of the credit for the block, and then immediately b: go to WP:AN to share your firm grasp and capability with blocking policy, emphasizing that you tried to do the block yourself but were "beat to it". Use lots of ALLCAPs, and add random diffs to things as evidence of the appropriateness of the block. (Don't worry about where the diffs go, no one really clicks on the diffs)

• Diff. Something you add to an argument to prove your point in a discussion, thereby winning over other editors and boosting the vote count in your favor. It doesn't matter what you add, no one reads them. More diffs = more credibility.

• Vandal a wikipedian editor with less than 100 edits, and an opinion. Excellent candidate for a cool down block. Should help them realize that everything they've done was silly and wrong, and will most likely make them into a valuable and constructive editor in no time.
• Vandalism Knowingly and willingly adding nonsense to, or removing content or images from Wikipedia. Unless done by a bot.

• Rollback. A unnecessary tool that duplicates what other automated tools already do. The major difference is that you need an admin to "give" you rollback. Because of this caveat, rollback is definitely a trophy; a line on the resumé, that virtually guarantees you a successful RfA in your near future.

• Huggle Rollback that has washed down the crack-cocaine with a redbull. And, bonus! - you don't need an admin to get it, just a user account.

• Friendly. An automated tool for reverting vandalism and templating n00bs. Called Friendly to avoid personally attacking, and to spite new users. Synonym: !Twinkle.

• n00b Anyone with less edits than you, thereby making them clearly incorrect.

• Notability The status any subject attains once it has been mentioned on The Simpsons or Family Guy.

• NPOV Neutral Point of View. i.e., the point of view the last editor who last edited any particular Wikipedia article. Also, the point of view of any editor that has access to the block button.

• POINT When in black "you have made a statement I totally agree with"; When in blue "you have made a statement I disagee with, and therefore wish to disparage you and indicate your opinion is worthless, by linking to an essay I have barely read and certainly do not understand."

• Per nom. A way of saying one of three things: 1 - I have strong feelings about this, but I don't want the grief that will follow by typing any more than these three letters, or 2 - I don't have strong feelings about this, but the nom is a friend of mine, and is never wrong, or 3 - I don't have strong feelings about this, but during my failed RfA, I was told I needed more edits in Wikipedia space, specifically AfDs.