Backronyms

At wiki.gg we enjoy practicing BAD development (BAckronym-Driven development), and pretty much every tool we've built is named with a backronym.

This page should contain most backronyms for your education and enjoyment.

ACTION FIGURES

[forthcoming] Automated Counting & Tracking In Ordinal Numbers - For Instance, Global User Revisions, Edits, & Submissions - global edit counts (please note, this backronyms twice, once to ACTION FIGURES and a second time to AF, we are that cool)

ARTIFICER

Artificial Robot That Is For Implementing Custom Essential Responsibilities (our onboarding server Discord bot)

BARD

[forthcoming] BARD Appearance ReDesigner (a GUI theme editor) (this is also a recursive acronym)

CLIPPY'S

[forthcoming] Cute Little Informative Pages Per Your Specification (user shortcuts extension, first mentioned in TULIPS/2024-12-19)

DRUID

Data Representation Ultra Infobox Design

GLAD

Glitches Located And Debugged (when a SAD is over)

GNU

GNU is Not a UI (Vector skin modification that adds global wiki.gg elements)

GOLEM

[internal] GG Online Laboratory for Experimental Modifications, a private test environment

GPS

[onboarding wikis only] Guided Publication Setup

GUPPIES

[forthcoming] Global User Profiles with Personalized Individualization for Expanded Socialization

IMP

IMProved Main Page (like MINI, this is a finite recursive acronym)

LAUNCHPAD

Lite Activation Utility for Necessary Changes to Hosted Platform Announcement Delivery (note, in the event of a platform announcement that isn't necessary, N would stand for Noncritical) (this is the SATELLITE deploy & undeploy tool)

LIBRARIAN

LIBRe Alex's Relational Interpage ANnotations (working)

MAGE

[forthcoming] Mediawiki Automated Gui Editor (an AWB alternative)

MINI class

Mini Impromptu News and/or Information class (note, this is explicitly not a recursive acronym, the first word is just "Mini") (alternatively, you can choose to recurse a finite number of times)

MWCLERIC

MediaWiki Client Library for Editing and Revision in Code

NAVIGATOR

NAVIGATOR Aid to Visualizing In-Game Attractions: Terrain, Origins, & Routes (new name for DataMaps)

ORCHID

[internal use only] Organized Recurring Coordination of Helpful Intrateam Discussions (wiki team meetings)

PLUS

Prestige-Level User Style (voluntary Discord subscription to support wiki.gg)

[forthcoming] RAINBOW

Reach An Integrated Network (Bluesky), On-Wiki

RANGER

Responsively Arranged Navboxes Guiding Easy Reading

SAD

Servers Are Down

SATELLITE

Surveys As Tools to Enhance Little & Large Interactions Targeting Everyone (feedback surveys)

SORCERER

Super Original Really Cool Example Roleplaying Emulator by River

TITAN

Taskforce Increasing Trustworthiness And Neatness

TULIPS

Thursday Updates & Logs Improving Platform Software