BattleTechWiki talk:Glossaries

Deletion

This looks like a beta of the Dictionary and Glossary of Clan Terms pages. Seems better to add any missing terms to those pages. Madness Divine (talk) 16:48, 15 August 2022 (EDT)

This page is for Extension:Lingowhich has been installed on Sarna. It is a glossary extension, and lets you define a list of terms and/or abbreviations and their definitions on this page, which then displays these definitions whenever an term/abbreviation is hovered over in an article. Though at the moment there seems to be an issue with it's config. --Deadfire (talk) 19:21, 15 August 2022 (EDT)

If this has some kind of important function for the wiki, would it be better to fold the Dictionary and Glossary of Clan Terms pages into this instead? I don't really like the idea of having all three as they are pretty close in purpose.--Dmon (talk) 19:25, 15 August 2022 (EDT)

Yes that would make things a lot easier with those pages, However this page itself needs a very big cleanup as well to make the things it is defining much more "to the point". Additionally abbreviations would need to be added and defined.--Deadfire (talk) 19:33, 15 August 2022 (EDT)

Terminology instructions

By default Lingo will mark up any page with the terms and definitions defined on the Terminology page of your wiki (or the respective page in the language of your wiki). Just create that page and insert some entries using the following syntax:

;FTP:File Transfer Protocol
;AAAAA:American Association Against Acronym Abuse
;ACK:Acknowledge
;AFAIK:As Far As I Know
;AWGTHTGTATA:Are We Going To Have To Go Through All This Again
;HTTP:HyperText Transfer Protocol

You can use any characters in a term (including punctuation, spaces, all UTF-8 characters, but excluding the colon (<tvar name=1>:</tvar>) of course), you are not limited to only letters.

To give some structure to the Terminology page you are also allowed to have Terms and Definitions on separate lines.Any lines not starting with a semicolon (<tvar name=1>;</tvar>) or a colon (<tvar name=2>:</tvar>) are ignored, so go ahead and insert empty lines, headlines, explanatory text.

Using this format you may assign one definition to multiple terms, e.g. to cover grammatical variants (see the U.S.A. example below) and multiple definitions to one term, e.g. to cover different meanings (see the ACK example). You may even combine this, i.e. have multiple definitions for a set of multiple terms. Finally you may also use transclusion, e.g. to have different glossaries for different topics and pull them all together on the Terminology page.

;FTP
:File Transfer Protocol

;AAAAA
:American Association Against Acronym Abuse

;ACK
:Acknowledge
:Acklington railway station

;U.S.A.
;USA
:United States of America

Pull in more terminology from elsewhere:
{{:MoreTerminology}}

--Deadfire (talk) 21:45, 15 August 2022 (EDT)