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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.
| Bacronym | Stands for | Explanation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACTION FIGURES | Automated Counting & Tracking In Ordinal Numbers For Instance, Global User Revisions, Edits, & Submissions | Global edit counts | Forthcoming! 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 | BARD Appearance ReDesigner | A GUI theme editor | Forthcoming! This is also a recursive acronym! |
| DRUID | Data Representation Ultra Infobox Design | ||
| FIGHTER | Flexible Interface Gateway to Handle Text Edits and Requests | The backbone for MAGE | Forthcoming! |
| GLAD | Glitches Located And Debugged | When a SAD is over | :D |
| GNU | GNU is Not a UI | Vector skin modification that adds global wiki.gg elements | |
| GOLEM | GG Online Laboratory for Experimental Modifications | A private test environment | Internal use only |
| GPS | Guided Publication Setup | Onboarding wikis only | |
| GUPPIES | Global User Profiles with Personalized Individualization for Expanded Socialization | Forthcoming! | |
| IMP | IMProved Main Page | Like MINI, this is a finite recursive acronym | |
| LAUNCHPAD | Lite Activation Utility for Necessary Changes to Hosted Platform Announcement Delivery | SATELLITE's deploy & undeploy tool | In the event of a platform announcement that isn't necessary, N would stand for Noncritical |
| LIBRARIAN | LIBRe Alex's Relational Interpage ANnotations | Working | |
| MAGE | Mediawiki Automated Gui Editor | An AWB alternative | Forthcoming! |
| MINI class | Mini Impromptu News and/or Information class | 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 | Organized Recurring Coordination of Helpful Intrateam Discussions | Wiki team meetings | Internal use only |
| PLUS | Prestige-Level User Style | Voluntary Discord subscription to support wiki.gg | |
| RAINBOW | Reach An Integrated Network (Bluesky), On-Wiki | Forthcoming! | |
| 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 |