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This is a directory of abbreviations used on Wikipedia for various pages, processes, policies, and proposals. For the guideline on the use of abbreviations in articles, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations.
0–9[edit]
- 3D (WP:3D) – No 3D illustrations
 - 3RR (WP:3RR) – Three-revert rule
 - 5P (WP:5P) – Five pillars of Wikipedia. If there is a number after the P, e.g. 5P1, then it refers to that pillar.
 - 5C (WP:5C) – The "five C's" of copyediting.
 
A[edit]
- A (WP:A) – Attribution
 - AA (WP:AA) – Article alerts
 - AB (WP:AB) – Autobiography
 - ABC (WP:ABC) – Wikipedia abbreviations
 - AC (WP:AC) – Arbitration Committee
 - AD (WP:AD) – Accuracy dispute
 - AE (WP:AE) – Administrators' noticeboard/Arbitration enforcement
 - AFC (WP:AFC) – Articles for creation
 - AfD (WP:AfD) – Articles for deletion
 - AGF (WP:AGF) – Assume good faith
 - AI (WP:AI) – Artificial intelligence
 - AIV (WP:AIV) – Administrator intervention against vandalism
 - AN (WP:AN) – Administrators' noticeboard
 - ANI, AN/I (WP:ANI) – Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
 - ANRFC, AN/RFC – Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure
 - AO (WP:AO) – As of
 - AP (WP:AP) – Arbitration policy
 - AP2 (WP:AP2) – American politics 2, post-1932 American politics. Topic area subject to discretionary sanctions.
 - ARBCOM (WP:ARBCOM) – Arbitration Committee
 - AS (WP:AS) – Article size
 - ATP – Article talk page
 - ATT (WP:ATT) – Attribution
 
B[edit]
- B (WP:B) – Bots
 - BA (WP:BA) – List of bad article ideas
 - BAD (WP:BAD) – Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
 - BB (WP:BB) – Be bold
 - BEANS (WP:BEANS) – Don't stuff beans up your nose
 - BF (WP:BF) – Assume good faith#Dealing with bad faith
 - BK (WP:BK) – Notability (books)
 - BITE (WP:BITE) – Don't bite the newcomers
 - BJAODN (WP:BJAODN) – Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
 - BLP (WP:BLP) – Biographies of living persons
 - BM (WP:BM) – Blank maps
 - BN (WP:BN) – Bureaucrats' noticeboard
 - BNA (WP:BNA) – British Newspaper Archive
 - BOLD (WP:BOLD) – Be bold
 - BOTREQ (WP:BOTREQ) – Bot requests
 - BP (WP:BP) – Blocking policy
 - BRD (WP:BRD) – BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
 - BRFA (WP:BRFA) – Bots/Requests for approval
 - BS (WP:BS) – Barnstars
 - BTW (WP:BTW) – Build the web
 - BURO (WP:BURO) – Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy
 
C[edit]
- C (WP:C) – Copyrights
 - CAT (WP:CAT) – Categories
 - CB (WP:CB) – Complete bollocks
 - CBALL (WP:CBALL) – Wikipedia is not a crystal ball
 - CC (WP:CC) – Course coordinator, instructor, online and campus volunteer
 - CCC (WP:CCC) – Consensus can change
 - CCI (WP:CCI) – Contributor copyright investigations
 - CD (WP:CD) – Centralized discussion
 - CDT (WP:CDT) – Current date and time
 - CE (WP:CE) – Copyediting
 - CfD (WP:CfD) – Category for deletion
 - CfM (WP:CfM) – Category for merging
 - CfR (WP:CfR) – Category for renaming
 - CHK (WP:CHK) – CheckUser
 - CI (WP:CI) – Category intersection
 - CIR (WP:CIR) – Competence is required
 - CIV (WP:CIV) – Civility
 - CIVIL (WP:CIVIL) – Civility
 - CK (WP:CK) – Common knowledge
 - CLS (WP:CLS) – Categories, lists, and navboxes
 - Cmt. – Comment; often used in edit summaries for comments at RfCs, etc.
 - COI (WP:COI) – Conflict of interest
 - CON (WP:CON) – Consensus
 - COPYVIO (WP:COPYVIO) – Copyright violations
 - CP (WP:CP) – Copyright problems
 - CR (WP:CR) – Cleanup resources
 - CRAT (WP:CRAT) – Bureaucrats
 - CS (WP:CS) – Citing sources
 - CSD (WP:CSD) – Criteria for speedy deletion
 - CU (WP:CU) – CheckUser (use WP:CHK or WP:CHECK instead; previously used for Cleanup; sometimes used for Changing username)
 - CV (WP:CV) – Copyright problems
 - CW (WP:CW) – Citing Wikipedia
 
D[edit]
- D (WP:D) – Disambiguation
 - DAB (WP:DAB), DISAMBIG – Disambiguation
 - DABLINK – Disambiguated link (i.e., fixed a link to a disambiguation page to point to a specific article)
 - DD (WP:DD) – Database download
 - DE (WP:DE) – Disruptive editing
 - DEL (WP:DEL) – Deletion policy
 - DELREV (WP:DELREV) – Deletion review
 - DF (WP:DF) – Department of Fun
 - DG (WP:DG) – Username policy#Using multiple accounts
 - DGAF (WP:DGAF) – Don't-give-a-fuckism
 - DI (WP:DI) – Criteria for speedy deletion#Files
 - DP (WP:DP) – Deletion policy
 - DR (WP:DR) – Resolving disputes
 - DRN (WP:DRN) – Dispute resolution noticeboard
 - DRV (WP:DRV) – Deletion review
 - DT (WP:DT) – Dispute templates
 - DYK (WP:DYK) – Did you know
 
E[edit]
- EA (WP:EA) – Editor assistance
 - EC (WP:EC) – Edit count
 - EC (WP:EDC) – Edit conflict
 - ED (WP:ED) – Experimental deletion
 - EF (WP:EF) – Edit filter
 - EG (WP:EG) – Editing policy
 - EI (WP:EI) – Editing the interface
 - EL (WP:EL) – External links
 - EM (WP:EM) – Editors matter
 - EN (WP:EN) – Naming conventions (use English)
 - EP (WP:EP) – Editing policy
 - EQ (WP:EQ) – Etiquette
 - ER (WP:ER) – Editor review
 - ES (WP:ES) – Edit summary
 - ET (WP:ET) – Editor tags
 - EW (WP:EW) – Edit war
 - EX (WP:EX) – Expert editors
 - EXP (WP:EXP) – Requests for expansion
 
F[edit]
- FA (WP:FA) – Featured articles
 - FAC (WP:FAC) – Featured article candidates
 - FAR (WP:FAR) – Featured article review
 - FB (WP:FB) – Facebook
 - FEED (WP:FEED) – Article feedback
 - FfD (WP:FfD) – Files for discussion
 - FI (WP:FI) – Featured pictures
 - FL (WP:FL) – Featured lists
 - FN (WP:FN) – Footnotes
 - FORUM (WP:FORUM) – Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
 - FP (WP:FP) – Featured pictures
 - FPO (WP:FPO) – Featured portals
 - FS (WP:FS) – Featured sounds
 - FT (WP:FT) – Featured topics
 - FUTURE (WP:FUTURE) – Wikipedia is not a crystal ball
 
G[edit]
- GA (WP:GA) – Good articles
 - GAME (WP:GAME) – Don't game the system
 - GAMEGUIDE (WP:GAMEGUIDE) – NOT:Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 - GAN (WP:GAN) – Good article nominations
 - GAR (WP:GAR) – Wikipedia:Good article reassessment
 - GB (WP:GB) – GlobalBlocking
 - GD (WP:GD) – Guide to deletion
 - GDPR (not specific to Wikipedia) – General Data Protection Regulation – EU regulation on the processing of personal data
 - GF (WP:GF) – Assume good faith
 - GFDL (WP:GFDL) – GNU Free Documentation License
 - GL (WP:GL) – Graphics Lab
 - GOCE (WP:GOCE) – Guild of Copy Editors
 - GOCER (WP:GOCER) – Guild of Copy Editors request
 - GNG (WP:GNG) – General notability guideline
 - GT (WP:GT) – Good topics
 - GUS (WP:GUS) – German userbox solution
 - GW (WP:GW) – Gnome Week
 
H[edit]
- HA (WP:HA) – Harassment
 - HAT (WP:HAT) – Hatnote
 - HAU (WP:HAU) – Highly Active Users
 - HD (WP:HD) – Help desk
 - HG (WP:HG) – Huggle
 - HMB (WP:HMB) – Huge message boxes
 - HOAX (WP:HOAX) – Don't create hoaxes
 - HS (WP:HS) – High Schools
 - HW (WP:HW) – Do your own homework
 
I[edit]
- IAR (WP:IAR) – Ignore all rules
 - IC (WP:IC) – Inline citation
 - IFD (WP:IFD) – Images for deletion (Now called "Files for discussion" (FfD))
 - IL (WP:IL) – Interlanguage links
 - IGNORE (WP:IGNORE) – Ignore all rules
 - IINFO (WP:IINFO) – Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
 - IM (WP:IM) – WikiProject Images and Media
 - IP (WP:IP) – Anonymous users (IP users)
 - IPBE (WP:IPBE) – IP block exemption
 - IRC (WP:IRC) – Internet Relay Chat
 - IS (WP:IS) – Independent sources
 - IT (WP:IT) – Image copyrighttags
 - ITN (WP:ITN) – In the news
 - IU (WP:IU) – Inappropriate usernames
 - IW (WP:IW) – InterWikimedia links
 
J[edit]
K[edit]
- KC (WP:KC) – Kindness Campaign
 - KS (WP:KS) – Keyboard shortcuts
 
L[edit]
- L (WP:L) – Lists
 - LA (WP:LA) – List of administrators
 - LC (WP:LC) – Listcruft
 - LD (WP:LD) – Legal disclaimer
 - LEGAL (WP:LEGAL) – No legal threats
 - LF (WP:LF) – Laissez-faire
 - LGL (WP:LGL) – List of guidelines
 - LI (WP:LI) – Link intersection
 - LOP (WP:LOP) – List of policies
 - LQ (WP:LQ) – Logical quotation
 - LS (WP:LS) – Lead section
 - LTA (WP:LTA) – Long-term abuse
 - LW (WP:LW) – Legal warnings
 
M[edit]
- M (WP:M) – Mediation
 - MC (WP:MC) – Mediation Committee
 - ME (WP:ME) – Minor edit
 - MEDRS (WP:MEDRS) – Reliable sources for medical articles
 - MF (WP:MF) – Mirrors and forks
 - MfD (WP:MfD) – Miscellany for deletion
 - MH (WP:MH) – Media help
 - MI (WP:MI) – Multilingual coordination
 - ML (WP:ML) – Mailing lists
 - MoS or MOS (WP:MOS) – Manual of Style
 - MP (WP:MP) – Mediation Committee/Policy (formerly Million pool)
 - MS (WP:MS) – Music samples
 - MT (WP:MT) – Template messages
 - MU (WP:MU) – Meetup
 - MV (WP:MV) – Moving a page
 - MW (WP:MW) – Missing Wikipedians
 
N[edit]
- N (WP:N) – Notability
 - NC (WP:NC) – Naming conventions
 - NFCC (WP:NFCC) – Non-free content criteria
 - NLT (WP:NLT) – No legal threats
 - NOCITE (WP:NOCITE) – No citation given
 - NOPRICES (WP:NOPRICES) – Wikipedia is not a directory
 - NOR (WP:NOR) – No original research
 - NOT (WP:NOT) – What Wikipedia is not
 - NOT PAPER (WP:NOT PAPER) – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 - NOT PAPERS (WP:NOT PAPERS) – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 - NOT#CHAT (WP:NOT#CHAT) – Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
 - NOT#DEM (WP:NOT#DEM) – Wikipedia is not a democracy
 - NOT#FAQ (WP:NOT#FAQ) – Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
 - NOT#HOST (WP:NOT#HOST) – Wikipedia is not your web host
 - NOT#JOURNALISM (WP:NOT#JOURNALISM) – Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
 - NOT#LYRICS (WP:NOT#LYRICS) – Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
 - NOT#NEWS (WP:NOT#NEWS) – Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
 - NOT#OR (WP:NOT#OR) – Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
 - NOT#STATS (WP:NOT#STATS) – Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
 - NOT#USER (WP:NOT#USER) – Wikipedia is not your web host
 - NOT#WEBHOST (WP:NOT#WEBHOST) – Wikipedia is not your web host
 - NOTADVERTISING (WP:NOTADVERTISING) – Wikipedia is not a soapbox
 - NOTADVOCATE (WP:NOTADVOCATE) – Wikipedia is not a soapbox
 - NOTANARCHY (WP:NOTANARCHY) – Wikipedia is not an anarchy
 - NOTBATTLEGROUND (WP:NOTBATTLEGROUND) – Wikipedia is not a battleground
 - NOTBLOG (WP:NOTBLOG) – Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social networking, or memorial site
 - NOTBUREAUCRACY (WP:NOTBUREAUCRACY) – Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy
 - NOTCASE (WP:NOTCASE) – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 - NOTCATALOG (WP:NOTCATALOG) – Wikipedia is not a directory
 - NOTCENSORED (WP:NOTCENSORED) – Wikipedia is not censored
 - NOTCRYSTAL (WP:NOTCRYSTAL) – Wikipedia is not a crystal ball
 - NOTDEMOCRACY (WP:NOTDEMOCRACY) – Wikipedia is not a democracy
 - NOTDICDEF (WP:NOTDICDEF) – Wikipedia is not a dictionary
 - NOTDIR (WP:NOTDIR) – Wikipedia is not a directory
 - NOTDIRECTORY (WP:NOTDIRECTORY) – Wikipedia is not a directory
 - NOTFORUM (WP:NOTFORUM) – Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
 - NOTGUIDE (WP:NOTGUIDE) – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 - NOTHOWTO (WP:NOTHOWTO) – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 - NOTLAW (WP:NOTLAW) – Wikipedia is not governed by statute
 - NOTLINK (WP:NOTLINK) – Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files
 - NOTMANUAL (WP:NOTMANUAL) – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 - NOTMEMORIAL (WP:NOTMEMORIAL) – Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social networking, or memorial site
 - NOTMIRROR (WP:NOTMIRROR) – Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files
 - NOTMYSPACE (WP:NOTMYSPACE) – Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social networking, or memorial site
 - NOTNOW (WP:NOTNOW – Now is not the right time to run for adminship
 - NOTOPINION (WP:NOTOPINION) – Wikipedia is not a soapbox
 - NOTPAPER (WP:NOTPAPER) – Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia
 - NOTREPOSITORY (WP:NOTREPOSITORY) – Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files
 - NOTSOAPBOX (WP:NOTSOAPBOX) – Wikipedia is not a soapbox
 - NOTSTATUTE (WP:NOTSTATUTE) – Wikipedia is not governed by statute
 - NOTSTUPID (WP:NOTSTUPID) – And finally...
 - NOTTEXTBOOK (WP:NOTTEXTBOOK) – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 - NOTTRAVEL (WP:NOTTRAVEL) – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 - NOTWEBHOST (WP:NOTWEBHOST) – Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social networking, or memorial site
 - NOW (WP:NOW) – The deadline is now
 - NPA (WP:NPA) – No personal attacks
 - NPOV (WP:NPOV) – Neutral point of view
 - NPS (WP:NPS) – Don't include copies of primary sources
 
O[edit]
- OA (WP:OA) – Office actions
 - OC (WP:OC) – Overcategorization
 - OI (WP:OI) – Original images
 - OL (WP:OL) – Overlinking
 - OP – Original post, or original poster. The first comment starting a discussion, or the author of that comment.
 - Opp. – Oppose/opposing (used in edit summaries pertaining to RfCs and the like)
 - OM (WP:OM) – Ombudsman
 - OR (WP:OR) – Original research
 - OS (WP:OS) – Oversight
 - OTRS (WP:OTRS) – Open-source Ticket Request System
 - OV (WP:OV) – Oversight
 - OWN (WP:OWN) – Ownership of articles
 
P[edit]
- PA (WP:PA) – No personal attacks
 - PAG, PAGs (WP:PAG) – Policies and guidelines
 - PAPER (WP:PAPER) – Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia
 - PC (WP:PC) – Pending changes
 - PD (WP:PD) – Public domain
 - PERTINENCE (WP:PERTINENCE) – Pertinence and encyclopedic nature of images
 - PF (WP:PF) – Parser functions
 - PG (WP:PG, WP:PAG) – Policies and guidelines
 - PI (WP:PI) – Process is important
 - PL (WP:PL) – Proseline
 - PM (WP:PM) – Proposed mergers
 - PN (WP:PN) – Patent nonsense
 - PLOT (WP:PLOT) – Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
 - POINT (WP:POINT) – Don't disrupt Wikipedia to make a point
 - POL (WP:POL) – Policies and guidelines
 - POV (WP:POV) – Describing points of view
 - PP (WP:PP) – Protection policy
 - PR (WP:PR) – Peer review
 - PROD (WP:PROD) – Proposed deletion
 - PS (WP:PS) – either Policy shopping or Primary sources
 - PT (WP:PT) – Protected titles
 - PU (WP:PU) – Protected Userpage
 
Q[edit]
- Q (WP:Q) – Questions
 - QA (WP:QA) – Quality articles
 - QD (WP:QD) – Quick directory
 - QP (WP:QP) – Quickpolls
 - QS (WP:QS) – Verifiability#Questionable sources
 
R[edit]
- R (WP:R) – Redirect; in edit summaries at talk pages and noticeboards it may mean "reply".
 - RA (WP:RA) – Requested articles
 - RANT (WP:RANT) – Wikipedia is not a soapbox
 - RB (WP:RB) – Reward board
 - RC (WP:RC) – Recent changes
 - RD (WP:RD) – Reference desk
 - RE – used on Talk pages for a reply to another post
 - RF (WP:RF) – Readers First
 - RFA (WP:RFA) – Requests for adminship
 - RFAR (WP:RFAR) – Requests for arbitration
 - RFB (WP:RFB) – Requests for bureaucratship
 - RFC (WP:RFC) – Requests for comment
 - RFCU – Now-defunct process for examination of user behavior; merged into WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (WP:ANI)
 - RFD (WP:RFD) – Redirects for discussion
 - RFE (WP:RFE) – Requests for expansion
 - RFI (WP:RFI) – Requests for investigation
 - RFX (WP:RFX) – Requests for expansion
 - RM (WP:RM) – Requested moves
 - RN (WP:RN) – Regional notice boards
 - RP (WP:RP) – Requested pictures
 - RQ (WP:RQ) – Requests
 - RS (WP:RS) – Reliable sources
 - RT (WP:RT) – Requested templates
 - RV (WP:RV) – Reverting
 - RVV – Reverting vandalism
 - RW (WP:RW) – RedWarn (previously Researching Wikipedia)
 - RY (WP:RY) – Recent years
 
S[edit]
- SA – various meanings, depending on context: "See also" section, WP:Selected anniversaries, WP:Service awards, WP:Spoken articles, WP:Stress alerts, WP:Student assignments, WP:WikiProject Saudi Arabia, WP:WikiProject South Africa, WP:WikiProject South America, WP:WikiProject South Australia
 - SB (WP:SB) – Sandbox
 - SC (WP:SC) – Shortcut
 - SD (WP:SD) – Criteria for speedy deletion
 - SI (WP:SI) – Sockpuppet investigations
 - SIG (WP:SIG) – Sign on talk pages
 - SILLY (WP:SILLY) – Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
 - SIZE (WP:SIZE) – Article size
 - SK (WP:SK) – Speedy keep
 - SL (WP:SL) – Spotlight
 - SN (WP:SN) – Survey notification
 - SO (WP:SO) – Standard offer
 - SOAP (WP:SOAP) – Wikipedia is not a soapbox
 - SOCK (WP:SOCK) Sock-puppetry
 - SP (WP:SP) – Subpages
 - SPA (WP:SPA) – Single-purpose account
 - SPI (WP:SPI) – Sockpuppet investigations
 - SR (WP:SR) – Simplified ruleset
 - SS (WP:SS) – Summary style
 - SSF (WP:SSF) – Specialized-style fallacy
 - STUPID (WP:STUPID) – List of really stupid article ideas
 - STYLE (WP:STYLE) – Manual of Style
 - Supp. – Support/supporting (used in edit summaries pertaining to RfCs and the like)
 - SUL – Single user login (Unified login)
 - SUS (WP:SUS) – Simple userbox solution
 - SV (WP:SV) – Stable versions
 
T[edit]
- T (WP:T) – Tutorial
 - TALK (WP:TALK) – Talk page guidelines
 - TD (WP:TD) – Templates for deletion
 - TE (WP:TE) – Tendentious editing
 - TFA (WP:TFA) – Today's featured article
 - TFAR (WP:TFAR) – Today's featured article/requests
 - TfD (WP:TfD) – Templates for discussion
 - TG (WP:TG) – Template guidelines
 - TH (WP:TH) – Teahouse
 - TL (WP:TL) – Transwiki log
 - TM (WP:TM) – Template messages
 - TMP (WP:TMP) – Templates
 - TODAY (WP:TODAY) – Current date and time
 - TP (WP:TP) – Talk page
 - TPG (WP:TPG) – Talk page guidelines
 - TR (WP:TR) – Requested templates
 - TS (WP:TS) – Template standardisation
 - TW (WP:TW) – Twinkle
 - TWWPK (WP:TWWPK) – That's why we preview, kids
 
U[edit]
- UA (WP:UA) – Unusual articles
 - UAA (WP:UAA) – Usernames for Administrator Attention
 - UCR (WP:UCR) – Unexplained content removal
 - UD (WP:UD) – Usage of diacritics
 - UF (WP:UF) – WikiProject Microformats
 - UG (WP:UG) – User access levels
 - UI (WP:UI) – Untagged images
 - UM (WP:UM) – Userbox migration
 - UN (WP:UN) – Username policy
 - UP (WP:UP) – User page
 - UR (WP:UR) – Unusual requests
 - USER (WP:USER) – User page
 - UTP (WP:UTP) – User talk page
 - UV (WP:UV) - Ultraviolet
 
V[edit]
- V (WP:V) – Verifiability
 - VA (WP:VA) – Vital articles
 - VD (WP:VD) – Vandalism
 - VI (WP:VI) – Vested interest
 - VIP (WP:VIP) – Vandalism in progress
 - VL (WP:VL) – Victim Lists
 - VOA (WP:VOA) - Vandalism-only account
 - VP (WP:VP) – Village pump
 - VRT (WP:VRT) – Volunteer Response Team
 - VS (WP:VS) – Visiting Scholars
 - VT (WP:VT) – Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions#Vandal target
 - VU (WP:VU) – Indef blocked userpages
 
W[edit]
- W (WP:W) – Watchlist help
 - WAWH (WP:WAWH) - Wikipedia:We're all Wikipedians here
 - WB (WP:WB) – Wikibreak
 - WC (WP:WC) – Welcoming committee
 - WF (WP:WF) – Wikifun
 - WG (WP:WG) – Walled garden
 - WIN (WP:WIN) – What Wikipedia is not
 - WL (WP:WL) – Wikilawyering
 - WM (WP:WM) – Maintenance
 - WMF (WP:WMF) – Wikimedia Foundation
 - WOTTA (WP:WOTTA) – WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
 - WP – either Wikipedia, Wikipedia namespace, or WikiProject
 - WQ (WP:WQ) – Etiquette
 - WQA (WP:WQA) – Wikiquette alerts
 - WR (WP:WR) – WikiReader
 - WW (WP:WW) – Wheel war
 
X[edit]
- XD (WP:XD) – Experimental deletion
 - XfD (WP:XfD) – Deletion discussions
 - XRV (WP:XRV) – Administrative action review
 
Y[edit]
- YRS (WP:YRS) – WikiProject Years
 - YT (WP:YT) – YouTube
 
Z[edit]
- Z (WP:Z) – WikiProject Zoo
 
Two-letter tables[edit]
Wikipedia namespace[edit]
Template namespace[edit]
See also[edit]
- Wikipedia:Glossary – the main (not just abbreviations) index of Wikipedia-internal jargon
 - Wikipedia:Edit summary legend – supplemental glossary of formulaic edit summaries
 - Wikipedia:Guide to deletion § Shorthands – jargon specific to page-deletion discussions
 - Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!