Editing Project:Observatory Users Manual (section)

===Glossary (definitions of Observatory website language and wiki/MediaWiki terms)===
 
====Area====
A page that groups Articles connected by one topic (e.g., Environment).
 
====Area editor====
Manages, edits, and/or writes for the Area. Creates and approves Drafts of Articles filed by other Authors that fall under their Area.
 
====Article template Google Doc====
A Google doc template that can be used to start a new Observatory Article. It is shared between you and your editor.
 
====Author====
A contributor to the Observatory. The Published Author page ''is'' publicly visible.
 
====Administrator====
An administrator of the site who can help you with actions that require advanced permissions.
 
====Article====
An Article is an individual post of analysis, op-ed, resources, lists, explanatory introductions to topics, full details of events with a long shelf life, etc. An Article page can host both Full Articles and Quick Read summaries in the same location and can have subsections within it, just like a Wikipedia article.
 
==== Editorial domain ====
The Editorial domain is the Observatory site (and any page on it) with <code>ed.</code> preceding <code>observatory.wiki</code>: https://ed.observatory.wiki. It is where you and your editors can work on adding or editing Articles. Changes here are not reflected to the public (Users without log-ins) on the Public domain (<code>observatory.wiki</code> without <code>ed.</code>) until an administrator “Pushes” the Saved changes to the Public domain.
 
====Full Article====
This is the full-length Article.
 
====Guide====
A compilation of Articles designed as a course to take readers on a journey through one topic or issue (with a more narrow focus than an Area).
 
====Links====
There are three types of links:
#'''External links.''' Use these for non-Observatory links. They point to the external URL and use a single bracket syntax with a space between the URL and the link text: <nowiki>[https://www.nonObservatoryLink.com]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Plain_Sailing_Cook_Book/Recipes#83 page 83]</nowiki>.
#'''Internal links/wikilinks.''' They point to the current wiki (Observatory) pages and use a double square bracket syntax and optional pipe between the page name and the link text (if they differ): <nowiki>[[Article Title]]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[[Article_Title]]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[[Author Name to Go to Their Page]]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[[Recipe:Classics:The Plain Sailing Cook Book/540. Artichokes—French|Artichokes—French]]</nowiki>. Always use internal links for any link that begins with observatory.wiki—don’t use external links (''bad'': <nowiki>[https://www.observatory.wiki/Page_Title]</nowiki>; ''good'': <nowiki>[[Page_Title]]</nowiki> ).
#'''Interwiki links.''' These go to any page on Wikipedia or MediaWiki project sites. Interwiki links use the wikilinks syntax (double square brackets, a pipe), but with a prefix (see https://ed.observatory.wiki/Special:Interwiki for options). We recommend using “Visual editing” mode and inputting the URL of the Wikipedia project site page; alternatively, you may use “Source editing” mode to link like this: <nowiki>[[wikipedia:The_Manhasset|The Manhasset]]</nowiki>; since our developer defined the English Wikisource prefix (en.wikisource), we can also link like this <nowiki>[[wikisource:The Plain Sailing Cook Book/Recipes#83|page 83]]</nowiki> or like this <nowiki>[[:en.wikisource:The Plain Sailing Cook Book/Recipes#83|page 83]]</nowiki>.
 
If you try to Save a page containing a link with the incorrect <code>&#91;&#91;/</code> link syntax pattern, you will see a pop-up error message and will be unable to Save the page until you fix the link. (The pop-up error message about <code>&#91;&#91;/</code> will say: “The following text is what triggered our spam filter: &#91;&#91;/”—but the error is not related to spam. Just find the incorrect link and correct it so you can Save successfully.)
 
====Main or (Main) or Mainspace====
Everything not in a specified namespace is in the Mainspace. ''(See: [[Project:Observatory Users Manual#Namespace|Namespace]].)''
 
====Namespace====
A “namespace” indicates a contained part of the site. It is indicated by a “prefix,” or the part of the URL following observatory.wiki, such as observatory.wiki/<span style="color:#e83e8c;">Classics:</span> or observatory.wiki/<span style="color:#e83e8c;">Projects:</span> to avoid naming conflicts. Most Articles, Authors, Sources, and other pages you will work with (if you are not working on Classics content) will not have any special container and just start the Headline or Author name right after observatory.wiki.
 
==== Public Domain ====
The Public domain is the Observatory site (and any page on it) ''without'' <code>ed.</code> preceding <code>observatory.wiki</code>: https://observatory.wiki. This is how the public (Users without log-ins) views the site and how you should share links with the public for promotion of your Article pages or Author page. You cannot make edits to pages or access your User dashboard and certain Editorial features from here—to troubleshoot a page or feature you think you should be able to access, try adding <code>ed.</code> before <code>observatory.wiki</code> and click “enter” in the URL bar of your browser. If you are sharing a page with the public, make sure to remove <code>ed.</code> from the URL first.
 
====Quick Read====
A “Quick Read” version of an Article is a brief summary of a full-length Article.
 
====Role====
A Role describes an Author’s profession (e.g., Journalist, Researcher, Activist, Historian, Economist, Professor Emeritus)—essentially, it’s how you might describe yourself at a cocktail party. It is publicly visible on the Author page.
 
====Source====
Partner organizations that can be associated with Articles and Authors. They can have their own public page.
 
====Tag====
Tags are labels or descriptors of Articles that help readers to find your Article by related terms. Each Article gets one Area, but it can have multiple Tags. For example, an Article titled “Hummingbirds Are in Rapid Decline” might have the following Tags: Animals, Birds, Ecosystems, Endangered, Extinction, and Science.
 
====User====
The personal profile of an Author (''not'' publicly visible).
 
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