Vigilante

(Watcher)

Any editor who has selected to follow an article or page on Wikipedia. Every time a modification is made, however small, they will receive a notification. In general, a page’s watchers include those editors who have invested considerable time in its creation or in its improvement, or those people who are interested in controlling changes.

Bloqueo

(Blocking)

The action of preventing a user from continuing to edit. This can apply to one article in particular, or the encyclopedia as a whole. It may be temporary or permanent.

Guerra de edición

(Edit war)

When an editor systematically and without due respect to the policies and conventions of Wikipedia overwrites and/or undoes an edit by another user and vice-versa. There may or may not have been previous discussion on the talk page, and it must be referred to the Administrator’s Board for resolution.

Tablón de bibliotecarios (Administrator’s Board)

A zone designed to host petitions to the administrators of the encyclopedia.

Café

(Village pump)

A space for general discussion and the open exchange of ideas, information, consultation, technical advice, polls, proposals for improving the community, etc. It is organized according to topics of interest.

Políticas y convenciones

(Policies and guidelines)

The rules concerning participation on Wikipedia that are agreed upon by community consensus. Their basis is the “Five Pillars” which encompass themes such as the “neutral point of view”, what breaking the rules might imply, civility, deletion policies, etc.

Edición

(Editing)

The action of modifying any content on Wikipedia.

Deshacer

(Undo)

Undoing the edits of another user (going back one step). This action is very easy, since wikis have an “undo” button against edits in the revision history of each article. It is very useful in the case of undesirable user behaviors and a dangerous weapon in edit wars.

Artículo

(Article)

The principal environment where all the content and definitions for every entry are present.

Página de discusión del artículo (Talk page)

An environment associated with a particular article where editors seek consensus about the content, they wish to be included in the principle area of said article. It is a space where debates take place with the objective of improving the content of an article.

Artículo semi protegido

(Semi-protected article)

An article that can be edited only by autoconfirmed users, since it contains themes that provoke conflict and recurring vandalism. This protection can be requested by any user and is implemented by an administrator. If the conflicts are significant, an article can be protected completely such that it can only be edited by administrators.

Página de usuario

(User page)

A page where editors can present themselves to the community in terms of their interests, specialisms and editing preferences. It is not considered appropriate to give personal information.

Página de discusión de usuario

(User talk page)

A space associated with a user page where editors can leave messages for the user in question.