Glossary

toc Glossary of Wiki Terms

** Account **
a username and password that let you participate in the site as a whole — and a prerequisite for membership in any individual wiki

** Account name **
see username

** Actions menu **
the section of the side bar that includes the New Page, Recent Changes, Manage Wiki and Search options, plus the Make a New Wiki and Site Administration links in a Private Label site

** Anchor **
an element that you place in a page that makes it possible to link directly to that part of the page

** Badges **
a small graphic that you can put on other Web sites to advertise your wiki

** Content Area **
the part of your wiki page that is controlled by the Edit button

** Dashboard **
This provides a snapshot of all the wiki's you belong to.

** Editor Toolbar **
The graphic list of your options when you're editing a page with the visual editor

** Guest **
Anyone who is not logged in

** K–12 Wiki **
A free, ad-free wiki available to educators, exclusively for use in primary and secondary education

** Locked **
Only editable by an organizer of the current wiki

** Logo **
The graphic at the top left of the page; wikis begin with the default bonsai graphic, but that can be replaced with any graphic you choose

** Member **
Anyone who has been granted permission to join to a particular wiki (must already be an active user)

** Membership **
The permission to participate in an individual wiki

** My Wikis **
A list of all the wikis of which you are a member

** Navigation Bar **

 * (nav bar) ** The section of the side bar that provides the navigation for your wiki

** Organizer **
The person (or people) who handles the administrative functions of a wiki

** Page **
What you can see in a single browser window (plus scrolling up, down, or sideways) without following any links

** Page Name **
The title you set for a single page in a wiki

** Permissions **
The settings that determine who can see and edit your wiki

** Private **
Only visible and editable to logged-in members of the wiki

** Private Label Site **
A collection of wikis that share common rules of oversight and draw from a common user database

** Protected **
Visible to anyone, but only editable to logged-in members of the wiki

** Public **
Visible and editable to anyone

** Recycle Bin **
A tool that lets wiki organizers restore pages that were deleted from the wiki

** Sidebar **
The section of your theme that houses the Actions menu and the nav bar

The person (or people) who manages the global settings and functions of a Private Label site
 * Site Administrator **

A label you can attach to a page or file to make it easier to track and manage
 * Tag **

** Templates **
A special kind of wiki page that you can use a foundation to create new pages with the same content

** Theme **
everything on the page outside the content area — that is, everything that stays the same when you’ve edited a page, and as you move from page to page within your wiki

** User **
Anyone who has an active account on Wikispaces or, in the case of Wikispaces Private Label, on the Private Label site

** User Creator **
A tool that makes it easy to create user accounts in bulk (available to site admins on a Private Label site and organizers of K–12 wikis)

** Username **
Your unique account identifier on Wikispaces.com or your Private Label site; a username must be unique, 3–32 characters long, and contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, periods, and underscores

** Visitor **
Anyone who comes to a wiki, regardless of user status

** Widget **
A piece of media (like a video, a calendar, or dozens of other media types) that can be embedded into a wiki page

** Wiki **
A group of individual pages united by a single look and feel, sharing the same files and members, and built around a single common purpose (e.g., all the pages being used by one classroom)

** Wiki Name **
The name that appears in the header of your wiki (unless your wiki uses a custom logo)