Most are used in edit summaries, but occasionally in talk page conversation, user pages and even in articles.
bigot – generally, the same sense as in bigotry, but with emphasis to double standards and fanaticism
to botch, botcher – to inflict a damage, usually minor damage to several pages using poorly configured or unsupervised automated tools, or even by repeating some silly pattern by hands
cleansing – deletion of a content perceived as redundant or harmful, a harder version of the cleanup below
cleanup – various changes which do not add a new sense, ranging from WP:MOS-related fixes to removal of unneeded things
cockup – see wikt: cock-up
CONCEPTDAB – see WP:CONCEPTDAB
contamination – an off-topical content in an article, which is usually subject to content split or otherwise moving away; see also WP: disambiguation
crap – something exceptionally poor, see wikt: crap
danger, dangerous – something inherently error-prone, which can lead to confusion for Wikipedia readers and editors (even for careful editors), or may otherwise inflict a damage
deapostrophization – replacing typewriter apostrophes with other characters, see ' (disambiguation)
degradation, to degrade – for the context of articles see WP: Shoot it early; for images see JPEG
dehyphenation – replacing hyphen-minuses, which serve as approximations to dashes and minus signs
dequotization – replacing spurious quotation marks with correct characters, see " (disambiguation) and ' (disambiguation)
experienced [user] – a user who has a considerable experience in ( Wikimedia’s) technical arrangement, wiki structure and social affairs, not only articles’ writer or so; but not necessarily advanced user
fine interwiki – several proposals, mostly theoretical, see m: Fine interwiki
fROPPED – just deleted, usually something not useful at all
gibberish – not exactly the same that this word means in English: some sequence of words which is either not a text or has an extremely vague sense
hell (including such expressions as from hell and what the hell) – a sacral word
here refers to the current article (in those edit summaries or wiki comments the word appears), or, in the case of talk spaces, to the corresponding non-talk page
implicit merger – see m: Implicit merger
interwiki cleanup – see Help: Interlanguage links
JPEG (especially as JPEG diagram or JPEG drawing) – a swear word
lame – something substandard, and made not only contrary to manuals, but in a generally clueless way
Generally, a severe case of a WP:DICTIONARY article.
to push, pushing – to do something without care, not only WP: POV pushing
red move – see WP:Redirect #SUPPRESS
responsive, responsively – generally, the same as in Responsibility, but with emphasis to possible demotion in the case of grave failure
star, stars – a reference to WP: featured content, usually sarcastic
typography – actually, an object of quasi-religious cult, see uncommon characters below
unreg – an unregistered user
waste, waste-maker – normally used where, in Russian, the word « брак» is appropriate. A "waste-maker" is a partial case of a "botcher". The difference is that "botcher" may ruin something already established, but a "waste-maker" only produce his/her waste, which may be fairly harmful, though.
– thin space and hair space, mysterious lesser- spacing spaces
… – ellipsis, a punctuation mark
· – interpunct, sometimes used for stuffing very short pages (encoded in 3 bytes)
– – en dash, not particularly common character in edit summaries and talk pages
’ – alternative apostrophe, especially useful in italic text because of unpredictable rendering of U+0027 ' APOSTROPHE
« » – guillemets, rarely used in English Wikipedia, but occasionally written in WP:IRC environment
? – delete character, has no meaning nor visual rendering (considered taboo in some traditions)
Most are used in edit summaries, but occasionally in talk page conversation, user pages and even in articles.
bigot – generally, the same sense as in bigotry, but with emphasis to double standards and fanaticism
to botch, botcher – to inflict a damage, usually minor damage to several pages using poorly configured or unsupervised automated tools, or even by repeating some silly pattern by hands
cleansing – deletion of a content perceived as redundant or harmful, a harder version of the cleanup below
cleanup – various changes which do not add a new sense, ranging from WP:MOS-related fixes to removal of unneeded things
cockup – see wikt: cock-up
CONCEPTDAB – see WP:CONCEPTDAB
contamination – an off-topical content in an article, which is usually subject to content split or otherwise moving away; see also WP: disambiguation
crap – something exceptionally poor, see wikt: crap
danger, dangerous – something inherently error-prone, which can lead to confusion for Wikipedia readers and editors (even for careful editors), or may otherwise inflict a damage
deapostrophization – replacing typewriter apostrophes with other characters, see ' (disambiguation)
degradation, to degrade – for the context of articles see WP: Shoot it early; for images see JPEG
dehyphenation – replacing hyphen-minuses, which serve as approximations to dashes and minus signs
dequotization – replacing spurious quotation marks with correct characters, see " (disambiguation) and ' (disambiguation)
experienced [user] – a user who has a considerable experience in ( Wikimedia’s) technical arrangement, wiki structure and social affairs, not only articles’ writer or so; but not necessarily advanced user
fine interwiki – several proposals, mostly theoretical, see m: Fine interwiki
fROPPED – just deleted, usually something not useful at all
gibberish – not exactly the same that this word means in English: some sequence of words which is either not a text or has an extremely vague sense
hell (including such expressions as from hell and what the hell) – a sacral word
here refers to the current article (in those edit summaries or wiki comments the word appears), or, in the case of talk spaces, to the corresponding non-talk page
implicit merger – see m: Implicit merger
interwiki cleanup – see Help: Interlanguage links
JPEG (especially as JPEG diagram or JPEG drawing) – a swear word
lame – something substandard, and made not only contrary to manuals, but in a generally clueless way
Generally, a severe case of a WP:DICTIONARY article.
to push, pushing – to do something without care, not only WP: POV pushing
red move – see WP:Redirect #SUPPRESS
responsive, responsively – generally, the same as in Responsibility, but with emphasis to possible demotion in the case of grave failure
star, stars – a reference to WP: featured content, usually sarcastic
typography – actually, an object of quasi-religious cult, see uncommon characters below
unreg – an unregistered user
waste, waste-maker – normally used where, in Russian, the word « брак» is appropriate. A "waste-maker" is a partial case of a "botcher". The difference is that "botcher" may ruin something already established, but a "waste-maker" only produce his/her waste, which may be fairly harmful, though.
– thin space and hair space, mysterious lesser- spacing spaces
… – ellipsis, a punctuation mark
· – interpunct, sometimes used for stuffing very short pages (encoded in 3 bytes)
– – en dash, not particularly common character in edit summaries and talk pages
’ – alternative apostrophe, especially useful in italic text because of unpredictable rendering of U+0027 ' APOSTROPHE
« » – guillemets, rarely used in English Wikipedia, but occasionally written in WP:IRC environment
? – delete character, has no meaning nor visual rendering (considered taboo in some traditions)