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The following is a glossary of terms.
Index
The following is an index to the policies of Encyclopedia SpongeBobia. These are broken into different categories:
- I. Rules - the rules of the wiki and how different aspects function.
- II. Editing guidelines - the Manual of Style for the wiki in regards to content formatting, templates, etc.
- III. Glossary - a guide to the meaning of certain terms.
List
- 1. Administrator - any user of the wiki with sysop privileges.
- 2. Article - a piece of writing included with others in a newspaper, magazine, or other publication.
- 3. Assistant - any user of the wiki with the assistant right.
- 4. Bureaucrat - any administrator of the wiki with bureaucratic privileges.
- 5. Chat - a form of communication between users of Fandom, including, but not limited to: ESB Chat, Skype, and Discord.
- 6. Chat moderator - a user that has the ability to kick and ban other users from the chat.
- 7. Compilation - a thing, especially a book, record, or broadcast program, that is put together by assembling previously separate items.
- 8. Demotion - a removal of a user from a user right, either through user rights review, resignation, or removal by a user of higher power.
- 9. Discord moderator - a user with the ability to manage channels in the Discord server.
- 10. Discussion moderator - a user with the ability to manage threads and the discussions.
- 11. Edit farm - editing the same article more than 5 times in a 1 hour timeframe, or adding to articles only to remove shortly after.
- 12. Edit war - a dispute in which two or more editors revert changes to an article between opposing revisions.
- 13. Editing role - a role that has to do with the editing aspect of the wiki, including rollbacks, administrators, and assistants.
- 14. Gallery - a collection of image/video files on an article.
- 15. Impersonator - a user who pretends to be someone who they are not.
- 16. List - a number of connected items or names written or printed consecutively, typically one below the other.
- 17. Main namespace - informational content of the wiki.
- 18. Namespace - group of pages with similar purposes.
- 19. Page header - the top of the page, which features the name of the page.
- 20. Page title - the title of the article that appears in the page header and the URL.
- 21. Partial revert - reversing only part of a prior edit, while retaining other parts of it.
- 22. Resign - the voluntary act of giving up a promoted position.
- 23. Retire - the voluntary act of giving up a promoted position and ceasing activity on the wiki.
- 24. Revert - reversing a prior edit, which typically results in the article being restored to a version that existed sometime previously.
- 25. Rollback - any user that has the user right to quickly remove several edits on a user that are continuous on a single article.
- 26. Sandbox - a page for testing.
- 27. Social role - a role that has to do with the social aspect of the wiki, including chat moderators and discussion moderators.
- 28. Transcript - an article composed of a written version of an episode, short, special, movie, ride, or video game cutscenes.
- 29. User - any member of the wiki's community.
Extra definitions
To be merged with the above
- A. The definitions in this section apply to this entire policy page.
- B. Definitions
- 1. Administration - includes only administrators and bureaucrats.
- 2. Ban - a permanent removal of a user's ability to contribute to the wiki.
- 3. Block - a temporary suspension of a user's ability to contribute to the wiki.
- 4. Chat ban - a temporary or infinite removal of the user right to access the chatroom.
- 5. Chat flooding - posting many messages in a row.
- 6. Chat invasion - inviting a large group to chat, normally to troll and/or spam.
- 7. Consensus – when 70% or more of the participants of a discussion are in favor of the proposal after seven (7) days or more of discussion.
- 8. Doorspamming - coming in and out of chat repeatedly.
- 9. Drama - an exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances.
- 10. Fanon - any SpongeBob SquarePants in-universe or merchandise-related content not officially released by Viacom via a press conference or the Nickelodeon TV channel, and information that can be derived from that.
- 11. Necroposting - replying to a forum thread, message, or blog post that has not been replied to in at least three (3) months.
- 12. Proposal - a typed plan or suggestion put forward for others to discuss and vote on.
- 13. Sockmaster - a user who creates sockpuppets.
- 14. Sockpuppet - an alternate account used for deceiving purposes or to evade admin scrutiny.
- 15. Sockpuppetry - the act of making multiple accounts for deceiving purposes or to evade admin scrutiny.
- 16. Spam - a form of purposeful advertising.
- 17. Speculation - any content that is theorized by users or fans, rather than taken from official content.
- 18. SpongeBob SquarePants fansite - any website that contains SpongeBob SquarePants-related information.
- 19. Suspension - the temporary removal of a promoted user's privileges.
- 20. Termination - the forced removal of a promoted user from a particular position.
- 21. Trolling - a deliberate, provocative, online posting that is intended to cause an angry response.
- 22. Vandalism - any change in content that is intended to be negative.
- C. User activity. These policies define user activity for leaders at ESB as listed at ESB:Crew for informational purposes only, so that users are aware of which leaders are more likely to respond at a certain period in time.
- 1. Active User - Any user who has made at least one hundred (100) contributions within one (1) month preceding the present date and/or is actively involved in any of the ESB official discussions as well as ESB Discord or discussions. By actively involved, meaning participating in conversations on a regular basis.
- 2. Semi-Active User - Any user who has made at least fifty (50) contributions within two (2) months preceding the present date but fewer than one hundred (100) contributions within one (1) month preceding the present date, and/or is occasionally involved in ESB official discussions as well as ESB Discord or discussions. By occasionally involved, meaning participating in conversations on a not-so-much regular basis.
- 3. Inactive User - Any user who has made fewer than fifty (50) contributions within two (2) months preceding the present date and is rarely involved in ESB official discussions as well as ESB Discord or discussions. By rarely involved, meaning participating in conversations every once in a while.