Terms+Defined

=Terms Defined=


 * StyleGuide**: a guide to the writing customs and the culture of the wiki.

The **"Guard":** the person who watches the wiki pages and ensures that spam or bad edits are not entered, undermining the hard work of the wikiauthors.

A **wiki farm** is a set of wiki installations on a same server which are in some way linked.

"**MediaWiki** is a free software package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by other wikis including Mediawiki.org. It is designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day.


 * Wikimedia** is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc which is a non-profit charitable organization with headquarters in San Francisco, California.


 * Open link**: Accidental open links are a problem in wikis resulting from a wiki writer not checking to see if a page exists before creating a page with the same content, but under a different Wikiword.


 * Refactoring** is the process of editing existing wiki pages to create new ones; basically rewriting and restructuring.

A **WikiBadge** is a wiki search feature described as a page, which you can add as a link to other pages, usually at the bottom of the page to mark them in some way.


 * Tracking** allows all wiki updates to be monitored and when students are involved it allows student participation to be assessed.

The **signature tool** which is available on some wikis is used when a wiki is in edit and if the signature tool icon is clicked a wikiusername is added to the editing text area.


 * Editing** refers to the process by which a page is altered. Unless certain restrictions are in effect, all pages are editable, by everyone.