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Mabinogi World Wiki:Editor Glossary
- For the game contents glossary, see Glossary.
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This page groups the technical terms and definitions relative to the wiki as a whole.
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Boolean: a binary variable, having two possible values called “true” and “false.”.
Brace: Code within dual braces {{}} will always call a template. Triple braces {{{}}} will call a property or variable.
Bracket: Code within dual brackets [[]] will link to a page, or a file.
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Call: Slang for Transclusion. 'Calling' a page onto another; Transcluding the contents of a page onto another.
Category: A category is a special entity type provided by MediaWiki to aid in the classification of subjects (pages, subobjects) and it can be used to form hierarchical dependencies between categories. A page's categories are always found at its bottom, and some categories may be hidden by default to non-logged in users.
Concept: SMW100 query that is stored on a dedicated page. They can be viewed as "dynamic categories", i.e. as collections of pages that are not created manually, but that are computed by SMW100 from the description given by a query.
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Data Template:A type of template that holds the information about an item, or similar object in nature, that will be called and formatted on a different page. Equipment pages, for instance, use data templates.
DeadEiry: Old project of MWW100 that aimed to format the data separately from a page, so it could be dynamically rendered depending on that page's needs. Named after the Eiry Spirit weapon, before she was made available again following the Spirit Ascension update. Notably, Data templates are from the DeadEiry project. As MWW100 encountered a limit on how many times a page could be transcluded, the project was abandoned. SMW100 offers a better system to query, search, and transclude data; the lingering DeadEiry content should eventually be moved towards semantics in one way or another.
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Embedding: See Transclusion.
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Form: A front-end document in which an editor can fill in information, which will be formatted automatically by templates.
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Internal Data: The content present in the Mabinogi game files, but is inaccessible through normal means.
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Media Wiki: The software used by the Mabinogi Wiki, and many other wikias. See here for their web page. It can also be found at the bottom of every Mabinogi Wiki page.
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Namespace: A namespace differentiates between the purpose of the pages at a high level. Pages in certain namespaces can also have special properties or behave differently when they interact with other pages. For instance, Mabinogi World Wiki:, Template:, and User: namespaces.
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Page Prefix: See Namespace.
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Parsing: Analyzing a string or text into logical syntactic components, typically in order to test conformability to a logical grammar. For instance, parsing The apple is in the bag will allow the code to know that The apple is the subject and the bag is the predicate.
Property: An attribute of something. For instance, Red is a color property of an Apple, and would show as Property:Color.
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Query: Also known as Semantic Search, refers to SMW100's easy-to-use query language which enables users to access the wiki's knowledge. The syntax of this query language is similar to the syntax of annotations in Semantic MediaWiki. This query language can be used on the Special Page "Ask", in concepts and inline queries.
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Red Link: A "link to an article that does not exist". Because it shows as a red-colored link, it is simply referred to as a red link.
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Sandbox: A testing grounds for a page, template, or other things.
Semantic Media Wiki: The Semantic Mediawiki Project, also known as SMW.. Their website can also be found at the bottom of every Mabinogi Wiki page. See their glossary for a list of terms relevant to the framework.
Semantics: It allows for filtering, sorting, and sharing data hosted on a page in a friendlier format for editors.
Semantic Search: See Query.
Semantification/Semantificating: The act of converting pages to use semantics.
Subobject: A SMW100 construct that refers to an object that has its own property-value pairs just like any other wiki page, but in reality does not have a page in the wiki. Thus it is a sub-entity to its parent subject page. It is used in semantics.
Sub-Page:A page created hierarchically under a main page. For instance, Melwyn/Special Responses is a sub-page of Melwyn.
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Template: Templates are standard wiki pages whose content is designed to be transcluded (embedded) inside other pages. Templates follow a convention that the name is prefixed with " Template: ", assigning it to that namespace; besides this, you can create them like any other wiki page. Some templates can use other templates.
Transclusion / Transcluding : Making a page call the content of another page (embedding), in order to avoid typing down the same contents twice. This also allows for less pages to edit should there be changes.
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Userspace: A logged-in user's page, and all sub-pages under it. It is the user's own space to do as they will with it, within the Mabinogi World Wiki's Policy guidelines. Common usages are for sandboxes.