Here we will record common terms and designations for reference, both with the name(s) Wikidot has assigned to it, and any names in adjacent projects.
Definitions here shouldn’t be exhaustive, if more details are needed it can link to a separate Confluence page that contains additional information.
Wikidot Term | Other Terms | Definition |
|---|---|---|
Page | Article | The main data unit in Wikidot, a page has a fixed ID, metadata attributes like a creator and tags, and exists at one particular URL at a time (see below). |
UNIX name | Slug | The “file” part of a page’s URL. Exists in “Wikidot normal form”, where it (mostly) matches the regular expression |
| Wikidot normalization | The algorithm to convert a string into corresponding Wikidot normal form / its “UNIX name”. See above. |
Source | Code, Wikitext | The text in Wikidot’s markup language that makes up the content of pages. |