Meta:Glossary

See also: en:Wikipedia:Glossary. This page tries to add terms and acronyms that are found often in Meta (i.e. local jargon), but not necessarily found on other projects (such as English Wikipedia). Terms/acronyms with their own pages won't be explained here. Terms whose explanation can't be found in any other pages should be described here.

Exclusion list:

• Most Associations have their own acronyms that won't be listed here for the sake of brevity.

A

• AC - see Affiliations Committee (essay)
• ACP - see Avoid copyright paranoia (essay)
• AACP - see Avoid accusing others of copyright paranoia
• ADI - see Meta:Administrators' discussion index (see also SDI, IDI, SBI)
• AAR - see Admin activity review
• AF - see AbuseFilter
• AFE - see Abuse filter editors
• AFH - see Abuse filter helpers
• AFF - see Wikimedia movement affiliates
• AFT - see Research:Article feedback tool
• ANIP - see Access to nonpublic information policy
• APG - see Grants:APG (Annual Plan Grants)
• ASBS - see Affiliate-selected Board seats
• ASD - see Academic Standards Disease (essay)
• ASM - see IRC/Bots/AntiSpamMeta
• AVF - Anti-vandal Fighter, old name for Global sysops (GS)
• ArbCom - see Arbitration Committee

I

• IDI - see Meta:Interwiki link discussion index (see also ADI, SDI, SBI)

L

• LTA or Long-term abuse: a user who's been banned a lot of times and came back as different users.

R

• RfCU - see Meta:Requests for CheckUser information

S

• S - see Stewards
• SBI - see Meta:Spam blacklist index (see also ADI, IDI)
• SDI - see Meta:Stewards' discussion index (see also ADI, IDI)
• SR - see Steward requests
• SRCU - see Steward requests/CheckUser information
• SRG - see Steward requests/Global blocks & locks
• SRGP - see Steward requests/Global permissions
• SRB - see Steward requests/Bot status permissions
• SRP - see Steward requests/Permissions (other)
• SRU - see Steward requests/Username changes a.k.a. Unified login conflict resolution
• SRUC - idem
• SRM - see Steward requests/Miscellaneous requests
• SBL - see Talk:Spam blacklist / URL blacklisting requests

V

• VR - see Vandalism reports