This page tries to track ongoing documentation work in the MDN Glossary. Feel free to contribute! Planning and actual work in progress is tracked on the the community trello board.
Summary
| Pages | No tags | Needs* tags | Missing tags | Editorial reviews | Technical reviews | Outdated pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 365 | 0 (0%) | 12 (4%) | 5 (2%) | 5 (2%) | 31 (9%) | 226 (62%) |
See also localization status of this section.
Needs* tags
Found 12 pages. Learn more about how to deal with meta-tags.
Missing tags
At least missing one of the following: Navigation, WebMechanics, Search, Credibility, Security, Composing, Remixing, Design, Accessibility, CodingScripting, Infrastructure, Sharing, Collaborating, Community, Privacy, OpenPractices, Disambiguation
Found 5 pages. Learn more about how to tag pages.
Editorial reviews
Found 5 pages. Learn more about how to do an editorial review.
Technical reviews
Found 31 pages. Learn more about how to do a technical review.
Outdated pages
Found 226 pages. These pages haven't been updated in over a year. Outdated pages can have problems with both content and format. Look at these pages and consider: Is this page talking about the Web of today? Does it look consistent with newer pages in this topic area? If not, make any needed changes.
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590 days old - 502
590 days old - ARIA
435 days old - ATAG
435 days old - Abstraction
527 days old - Accessibility
435 days old - Adobe Flash
585 days old - Algorithm
380 days old - Apple Safari
430 days old - Argument
523 days old - Arpanet
523 days old - Asynchronous
538 days old - Attribute
572 days old - BiDi
435 days old - Blink
594 days old - Block
552 days old - Boot2Gecko
572 days old - Browser
519 days old - CIA
477 days old - CMS
477 days old - CRUD
470 days old - CSP
479 days old - CSRF
451 days old - CalDAV
513 days old - Canvas
513 days old - CardDAV
513 days old - Certificate authority
511 days old - Certified
477 days old - Character
513 days old - Chrome
374 days old - Cipher
513 days old - Cipher suite
511 days old - Ciphertext
513 days old - Class
447 days old - Closure
477 days old - Codec
477 days old - Compile
477 days old - Compile time
477 days old - Constant
477 days old - Constructor
421 days old - Control flow
477 days old - Copyleft
477 days old - Crawler
477 days old - Cryptanalysis
470 days old - Cryptographic hash function
510 days old - Cryptography
470 days old - DHTML
512 days old - DNS
512 days old - DOM
414 days old - DTD
554 days old - Decryption
556 days old - Denial of Service
594 days old - Digest
512 days old - Digital certificate
380 days old - Distributed Denial of Service
512 days old - DoS attack
512 days old - Doctype
512 days old - Domain
512 days old - Domain name
512 days old - Dynamic typing
512 days old - ECMA
512 days old - Element
380 days old - Encapsulation
594 days old - Encryption
556 days old - Engine
413 days old - Exception
449 days old - FTP
512 days old - FTU
429 days old - Firefox OS
512 days old - Forbidden response header name
367 days old - GIJ
429 days old - GPL
543 days old - Gaia
594 days old - Gecko
512 days old - Global attribute
596 days old - Global object
387 days old - Global variable
387 days old - Gonk
596 days old - Google Chrome
393 days old - Guard
584 days old - HTML5
596 days old - HTTP
512 days old - Host
512 days old - Hyperlink
512 days old - I18N
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512 days old - ICANN
512 days old - ICE
375 days old - IDE
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512 days old - IRC
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512 days old - Identifier
512 days old - Immutable
512 days old - Index
405 days old - Inheritance
545 days old - Instance
512 days old - Internet
547 days old - JPEG
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512 days old - Jank
598 days old - JavaScript
512 days old - Key
380 days old - Keyword
512 days old - LGPL
512 days old - Ligature
435 days old - Local scope
387 days old - Local variable
387 days old - Locale
512 days old - Localization
512 days old - MathML
512 days old - Microsoft Edge
538 days old - Microsoft Internet Explorer
435 days old - Mixin
547 days old - Mobile First
435 days old - Mozilla Firefox
512 days old - Mutable
470 days old - NAT
527 days old - NNTP
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449 days old - Namespace
470 days old - Netscape Navigator
470 days old - Node
490 days old - Number
451 days old - OOP
470 days old - OTA
463 days old - OWASP
527 days old - Object
470 days old - OpenGL
397 days old - OpenSSL
470 days old - Opera Browser
463 days old - Operand
463 days old - P2P
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421 days old - POP3
467 days old - Parameter
600 days old - Placeholder names
511 days old - Plaintext
509 days old - Polymorphism
467 days old - Presto
580 days old - Primitive
434 days old - Privileged
463 days old - Progressive Enhancement
435 days old - Property
527 days old - Property (CSS)
527 days old - Protocol
463 days old - RDF
463 days old - REST
490 days old - RIL
463 days old - RSS
463 days old - RTF
463 days old - Random Number Generator
463 days old - Raptor
429 days old - Recursion
463 days old - Reflow
549 days old - Regular expression
463 days old - Rendering engine
463 days old - Repo
463 days old - Responsive web design
435 days old - Robots.txt
397 days old - Ruby
504 days old - SCM
458 days old - SDP
458 days old - SGML
458 days old - SIMD
368 days old - SISD
368 days old - SLD
397 days old - SMTP
458 days old - SOAP
458 days old - SQL
382 days old - SQL Injection
444 days old - STUN
458 days old - SVG
458 days old - SVN
451 days old - Scope
458 days old - Second-level Domain
490 days old - Server
458 days old - Session Hijacking
458 days old - Shim
510 days old - Signature
449 days old - Signature (functions)
451 days old - Signature (security)
451 days old - Smoke Test
458 days old - Stacking context
435 days old - State machine
458 days old - Statement
404 days old - Static typing
458 days old - String
458 days old - Syntax
451 days old - TCP
451 days old - TLD
451 days old - TLS
451 days old - TURN
451 days old - Tag
451 days old - Telnet
429 days old - Three js
451 days old - Trident
616 days old - Type Conversion
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451 days old - URL
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490 days old - Validator
451 days old - Variable
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463 days old - W3C
512 days old - WAI
435 days old - WCAG
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429 days old - WebSockets
463 days old - XForm
549 days old - XSLT
512 days old - ltr
548 days old - mime
429 days old - rtl
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Localizations
Please help us to localize this documentation into different languages. Read more about how to translate.
| Language | Pages | Translated | Translations up to date |
|---|---|---|---|
| af | 361 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| bn-BD | 361 | 6 (1%) | 0 (0%) |
| cs | 362 | 4 (1%) | 0 (0%) |
| de | 361 | 12 (3%) | 9 (75%) |
| es | 361 | 30 (8%) | 9 (30%) |
| fa | 361 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| fr | 362 | 305 (84%) | 228 (74%) |
| it | 361 | 6 (1%) | 1 (16%) |
| ja | 361 | 79 (21%) | 60 (75%) |
| ko | 361 | 15 (4%) | 11 (73%) |
| pl | 361 | 6 (1%) | 1 (16%) |
| pt-BR | 361 | 39 (10%) | 27 (69%) |
| pt-PT | 361 | 12 (3%) | 6 (50%) |
| ro | 361 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| ru | 364 | 33 (9%) | 14 (42%) |
| zh-CN | 361 | 25 (6%) | 19 (76%) |
| zh-TW | 361 | 19 (5%) | 12 (63%) |
Current priorities
Technical Review
There are a lot of articles flagged for technical review. You can check if they are technically correct and correct them and/or remove the flag as appropriate.
Editorial Review
Articles need to be correctly formatted and spell-checked. Here is an example of a well-formatted entry.
Cut longer articles
If an article is too long, it needs to be reduced as per guidelines here. If you think a long article is particularly well written and deserves to be preserved, discuss it with us, on the dev-mdc mailing list. It can be moved to the appropriate area of MDN if it's deserving of it's own place on the site.
General check of completeness
There are a lot of articles. We should check to see if they need content and tag them appropriately. Coordination for this work is done on our Trello board.
Use the Glossary macro
Articles in the Glossary Area, the Learning Area and MDN in general should use the Glossary macro (where appropriate). You can learn more about the glossary macro here.
How to improve the content
Tagging standard
- Each page should be tagged with at least one tag from the web literacy map.
- If pages are related to a given technology, they should be tagged with that technology name.
- If pages need any type of work, a "Need*" tag should be added.
Link the glossary
While browsing and editing MDN, you can easly link any term to the glossary by using the Glossary macro.
It takes up to three possible parameters:
- The term to link to (note that terms are case insensitive)
- An alternate text to display (an expression identical to the term, a plural version, etc.)
- A flag indicating if the link must be displayed as a regular link (
1) or as a soft link (0, the default)
| Macro | Result |
|---|---|
| {{Glossary("Browser")}} | Browser |
| {{Glossary("Browser", "Web browser")}} | Web browser |
| {{Glossary("Browser", "Web browser", 1)}} | Web browser |
Writing a term definition
A term definition page must have three clear sections:
- A summary that shortly defines the term (one to two sentences at most)
- An in-depth definition that provides all the necessary details to understand what the term covers
- A "Learn more" section that provides various links to dig deeper in the area covered by this term
The content of a term definition must be written assuming the reader has no specific knowledge about the term and its usage. Use simple and straightforward English. Try to avoid as many technicalities as possible (it's not always possible but try to simplify).
Please remember that while gathering information from other sites is a good thing, it isn't good practice to copy and paste passages (or even entire articles) from them (otherwise we could just link to them).
For more detailed information check out the "how to write a new entry in the glossary" article.
Learning area meeting
The Learning Area weekly meeting takes place in the #mdn channel on irc.mozilla.org at 10 AM PDT (17:00 UTC, 19:00 CET). See the meeting time in your time zone. It's open to anyone that would like to participate, so please feel free to join in!
Join the Glossary community
- IRC: #mdn (learn more)
- Meetings: Every 2 weeks on Wednesday in IRC