Commons:Commons lingo
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Commons has its own lingo and abbreviations. Some were borrowed from Wikipedia or elsewhere, but they were all carefully crafted to confuse and bully new users. Most were made up by Jimbo, sitting in his basement drinking too much coffee.[citation needed] True story bro.
You may also like the editor's index to Commons. For lingo specific to photography see Commons:Photography terms.
A[edit]
- AN: Administrators' noticeboard
- ANU: Administrators' noticeboard for User problems
- ANV: Administrators' noticeboard for Vandalism
- ANB: Administrators' noticeboard for blocks and protections
C[edit]
- Cat: category or categorize
- CC: Creative Commons
- CC0: Creative Commons Zero, a free license to release works into the public domain
- (CC) BY: Creative Commons Attribution, a free license that requires the author to be attributed
- (CC) BY-SA: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, a free license that requires the author to be attributed and derivative works to be released with the same license
- Copyvio: copyright violation
D[edit]
- DM: De Minimis
- DR: Deletion Request
- DW: Derivative Work
E[edit]
- Enwiki: English Wikipedia. "En" may be replaced with other language codes, like "frwiki" for French Wikipedia, "ruwiki" for Russian Wikipedia, etc.
- EXIF: Exchangeable image file format, a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones).
F[edit]
- FAL: Free Art License
- FoP, FOP: Freedom of Panorama
G[edit]
H[edit]
- Hires: high resolution
I[edit]
- IBAN: Interaction ban, it is unknown if an interaction ban was ever actually used on Commons but it is sometimes suggested as a solution to some user problems.
- Indefblock: Indefinitely Blocked
L[edit]
- Lowres: low resolution
- LR: License Review
- LTA: Long-Term Abuse
O[edit]
- OOS: Out Of project Scope
- OTRS: Open-source Ticket Request System
P[edit]
- PCP, PRP: Precautionary Principle
- PD: public domain
S[edit]
- SCOPE: project scope
- Sig: Signature
- Sock: sockpuppet
- Speedy: Speedy delete / deletion. Can be used as a noun or a verb. ("Can you deal with the speedies?", "I speedied the file.")
- SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics
T[edit]
- Talk: talk page
- TOO: Threshold of originality
- T&S: Trust and Safety
U[edit]
- UDR: UnDeletion Request
- UW: Upload Wizard
V[edit]
- VFC: VisualFileChange
- VP: Village Pump
- VPC: Village Pump Copyright section
- VPP: Village Pump Proposals section
- VPT: Village Pump Technical section
W[edit]
- Warring: edit warring, repeatedly undoing the changes from another user.
- Wheel warring: Reinstating a reverted action ("wheel warring"), administrators going to edit war.
- WMF: WikiMedia Foundation