History: Glossary
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Whilst enjoying the company in IRC you may see some unfamiliar terms:
- tw.o
- http://tikiwiki.org (You are here 😊 - Community site)
- doc.tw.o or d.tw.o
- http://doc.tikiwiki.org - Documentation site
- devtwo
- http://dev.tikiwiki.org - Developer site
- info.tw.o
- http://info.tikiwiki.org - Public information site
- themes.tw.o
- http://themes.tikiwiki.org - Themes site
- polom
- a greeting, usually on IRC. It's a reference to what was saying tom bombadilom when walking in the forest "polom polom it's tom bombadilom" from a Tolkien book.
- irc
- Internet Relay Chat. This is our chatroom.
- modules
- right- and left-column boxes in Tiki (also can be displayed in a wiki page by use of a plugin). Not the same meaning as in other CMSs.
- plugins
- extensions of the wiki syntax. Not the same meaning as in other CMSs.
- Galaxia
- The Galaxia Workflow engine, integrated to Tiki
- DogFood or Dogfooding
- use TikiWiki's features to manage our processes and to solve our problems
- Moz or SUMO
- The SUport MOzilla site (powered by Tiki)
- BRANCH,CVS,SVN
- Terms used by developers in reference to the repository of files
- 1-9, 2-0, HEAD
- Different branches of Tiki versions.
- RFE
- Request for enhancement that you should submit to devtwo
- #tikiwiki
- the chatroom
- trunk
- Future version 4.0 (in SVN)
- WYSIWYCA
- What You See is What You Can Access (do not show options that you are not supposed to see). In other words, list and menu items aren't displayed for pages or features, etc, that the visitor doesn't have permission to see.
- WYSIWTSN
- What You See Is What (You Want) To See Now. Common pronunciation: "WizzyWatson" 😊 Unlike WYSIWYCA, WYSIWTSN is driven by user motivation. It's meant to allow for larger Tiki installations broken down into workspaces using Perspectives.
- WYSIWYG
- (Also w5g for the typing averse) What You See Is What You Get - In TikiWiki 2, the FCKeditor is integrated and shows text layout and styling, etc. in the edit window.