Accountability

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Definition of accountability.
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A

Academic wikis
Third-party wikis meant to be used in an academic context with a greater emphasis on features like access control, content approval, and research analysis. See also: Academic hub
Admin
Short for Administrator. A user with extra technical privileges for "custodial" work on MediaWiki wikis – specifically, deleting and protecting pages, and blocking abusive users.
Anon
Abbreviation for "anonymous user". As a user does not necessarily lose their anonymity by registering or logging in, this term should be avoided. See IP user.
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 Rarely, the term may refer to the an historical archive page, for outdated historical material related to MediaWiki.
API
Short for application programming interface. A set of definitions for subroutines and communication protocols that simplify software maintenance and implementation.

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B/c
B/c, or backwards compatibility, is the ability of new code to not cause problems with the functioning of old code.
Ban
Banning is the extreme, last resort action by which someone is prevented from editing a wiki for a certain length of time, limited or unlimited. Banned users are not necessarily blocked, however, it is one mechanism to enforce a ban. See also: Block.
Beta rollout
Enhancements to the Vector skin and page editing made in 2010 as part of a usability initiative.
Block
Action by an administrator, removing from a certain IP address or username the ability to edit a wiki. Usually done against addresses that have engaged in vandalism or against users who have been banned. See also: Ban.
Blue link, bluelink
A wikilink to an article that already exists shows up blue (or purple if it has been recently visited by that reader/editor). See also Sea of blue, and red link.
Blurb
A short (one sentence) summary of a recent news item for ITN.
Bureaucrat
A MediaWiki administrator who has been entrusted with promoting users to Administrator status. See also Crat, and Project:Bureaucrats.


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