MarioWiki:Glossary: Difference between revisions

==A==

;[[Wikipedia:Action Replay|Action Replay]]: A device that allows players to cheat in games by accessing the game's code.  

;[[MarioWiki:Autoconfirmed users|Autoconfirmed users]]: Users who have had an account on the MarioWiki for at least four days and have made at least five edits to the database.

;[[MarioWiki:Autopatrolled users|Autopatrolled users]]: Former admins whose edits are automatically verified by the software. Their edits are not flagged and do not require being manually patrolled by the administrators.

==B==

;[[Pre-release and unused content|Beta]]: A pre-release form of a video game. Beta versions of games are partially playable, but often do not utilize the final enemy placement, textures, or interface. {{seealso|MarioWiki:Good Writing#Frequently misused terms}}

;BGM: Abbreviation for "background music".

;[[MarioWiki:Bots|Bot]]: Users are that run by automated scripts and/or programs to carry out mundane and repetitive tasks.  

;Bug: An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, especially one that causes it to malfunction. E.g. "There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backward." The identification and removal of bugs in a program is called "debugging".  

;Byte: Adjacent bits, usually eight, processed by a computer as a unit. Larger units are called kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terrabytes, etc.

==E==

==F==

;Forum: A website where users can discuss just about anything. The MarioWiki has a forum called the [[#S|Super Mario Boards]].  

;[[Fourth wall]]: "Breaking the fourth wall" is when a video game character happens to notice that he or she is in a video game, or when he or she refers directly to the player.

==N==

;[[MarioWiki:Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance|NIWA]] (Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance): A network of independent wikis striving to chronicle the many diverse video game universes created by Nintendo.

;NPC: Abbreviation for "non-playable character". Refers to any character in a video game that cannot be used by the player. Some examples are [[Bowser]] and [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] in ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''

==S==

;Saving: The recording of a player's progress in a video game. In ''Mario'' games, usually done either automatically or at a specified save point (such as a [[Save Block]] or the end of a [[Fortress]], [[Tower (New Super Mario Bros.)|Tower]], or [[Castle]]).

;Sequel: A work of fiction (book, game, etc.) that continues the story or otherwise builds upon a previously-released work. All installations within a series are considered sequels of the works that preceded them. Note that if a [[#P|prequel]] is written for an existing work, the original piece does not retroactively become a "sequel", like how an earlier work is not a "prequel" to any sequels released after it.

;Server: A program that provides some service to other (client) programs. The connection between client and server is normally by means of message passing, often over a network, and uses some protocol to encode the client's requests and the server's responses.

;[[MarioWiki:Signatures|Signature]] (sig): A user's name or a design that includes the name, which users put below or after their comments on talk pages to show that they were the one who wrote said comment. On [[#F|forums]], signatures are the text or words that appear beneath every one of a user's posts.

;[[The 'Shroom:Main Page|The 'Shroom]]: The Super Mario Wiki monthly newspaper.

;SPAM: Short for ''Stupid Pointless and Annoying Message''. It is a form of [[#V|vandalism]].

;Spin-off: A game that has other gameplay types rather than the usual gameplay type it has (eg: ''[[Mario Tennis (series)|Mario Tennis]]'', ''[[Mario Kart (series)|Mario Kart]]'').{{anchor|Spin-off}}

;TOC: Short for Table of Contents.

;[[Wikipedia:Troll (Internet)|Troll]]: In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.

;[[MarioWiki:Trivia|Trivia]]: Miscellaneous points of information that are ideally incorporated into the [[B|body paragraphs]] of articles, yet which are often given their own section on an article.

;Unlockable: A character, gameplay mode, item, or other element of a video game that can be accessed only after completing a certain task in the game.

;[[MarioWiki:Userbox|Userbox]]: Boxes that users are free to create and use to describe their likes, dislikes, favorites, and other pieces of information about themselves.

;[[MarioWiki:Userspace|Userspace]]: Anything that belongs to a user such as their signature, certain sub-pages, talk pages, and the user page itself.