This is a small guide to bot-related terms of art on Wiki English.
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to create WP:BOTDICT#bot op, which will take you directly to the definition. Each listed variant (e.g. bot operator) has a corresponding anchor (e.g. #bot operator
).
sysop
group. bot
group, which raises some limits in the API and grants some additional rights, including the right to use the bot flag as in sense 2. action=login
with restricted user rights available. See mw:Manual:Bot passwords for details. If possible, OAuth should be used instead.|parameter=value
to | parameter = value
, or changing templates from single line to multiline, and vice versa) is generally not acceptable in a bot edit.prêt-à-porter
renders as prêt-à-porter
, but is very hard to quickly understand while reading the edit window.{{citejournal|issue=21|last=Smith|year=2008|title=Article of Things|journal=Journal of Things|volume=20|first=John|pages=156|doi=10.12345/654456}}
{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=John |year=2008 |title=Article of Things |journal=Journal of Things |volume=20 |issue=21 |pages=156 |doi=10.12345/654456}}
|parameter=value
whitespace structure creates an easily recognizable visual pattern while also improving line wrapping in the edit window.
and
render the same. However, while wikicode-highlighting scripts will correctly recognize "well-formed" elements like
, they will often not understand that
means the same thing.[[Category:Physicists|Sir Isaac Newton]]
is present twice on the same page, this is treated exactly as if it was present only once. However someone may decide to change the sortkey for the article to something like [[Category:Physicists|Newton, Isaac]]
and forget about the other sortkey present on the page, and cause a sortkey collision.This article uses material from the Wikipedia English article Dictionary, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
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