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−	== IMSMA ==
−	Information Management System for Mine Action
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−	== Navigation Window ==
−	The IMSMA Navigation window is the main window from which all of IMSMA’s features are accessed. The window contains a menu toolbar, a status bar, and three panes: the country structure pane, map pane, and items pane.
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−	== View Window ==
−	A View Window displays when you open an object from the IMSMA Navigation window. The view shows all current view data, including field reports, of that object. You can customise elements of a view to reflect the data that is collected in your field reports.
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−	==A==
−	;[[Wikipedia:Action Replay|Action Replay]]: A device that allows players to cheat in games by accessing the game's code.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Administrators|Administrators (Admins)]]: Another name for [[#S|Sysops]]. Also used as an umbrella term for all the promoted ranks (Sysops, Patrollers and Bureaucrats).
−	;AI (Artificial Intelligence): Usually refers to opponents programmed by the game.
−	;Anons (Anonymous users): Users who edit the wiki without creating an account. Their contributions are attributed to their IP address itself, rather than a unique username.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Autoconfirmed users|Autoconfirmed users]]: Users who have had an account on the MarioWiki for at least four days and have made at least five edits to the database.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Autopatrolled users|Autopatrolled users]]: Users whose edits are automatically verified by the software. Their edits are not flagged and do not require being manually patrolled by the Administrators.
−	;Avatar: A design that users use to represent themselves online. On [[#F|forums]], avatars are simply the picture or icon that users display on their profile.
−	==A==	+	==A==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;[[Wikipedia:Action Replay|Action Replay]]: A device that allows players to cheat in games by accessing the game's code.	+	;APMBC: [http://www.apminebanconvention.org/ Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention]
−	;[[MarioWiki:Administrators|Administrators (Admins)]]: Another name for [[#S|Sysops]]. Also used as an umbrella term for all the promoted ranks (Sysops, Patrollers and Bureaucrats).	+	;ArcGIS: It is a software suite developed by ESRI Inc. IMSMA incorporates the ArcGIS Engine to display the geographical data in the map pane
−	;AI (Artificial Intelligence): Usually refers to opponents programmed by the game.	+	;[[Auxiliary Data]]: Auxiliary data provide supplementary or additional information to the main items/objects in IMSMA. Auxiliary data is of the following types in IMSMA: Country structure, Organisation, Place, Ordnance classification, Cause classification, Needs classification and Assistance classification.
−	;Anons (Anonymous users): Users who edit the wiki without creating an account. Their contributions are attributed to their IP address itself, rather than a unique username.	+	;AXO: Abandoned Explosive Ordnance, explosive ordnance that has not been used during an armed conflict, that has been left behind or dumped by a party to an armed conflict, and which is no longer under control of the party that left it behind or dumped it. Abandoned explosive ordnance may or may not have been primed, fuzed, armed or otherwise prepared for use. (CCW protocol V)
−	;[[MarioWiki:Autoconfirmed users|Autoconfirmed users]]: Users who have had an account on the MarioWiki for at least four days and have made at least five edits to the database.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Autopatrolled users|Autopatrolled users]]: Users whose edits are automatically verified by the software. Their edits are not flagged and do not require being manually patrolled by the Administrators.
−	;Avatar: A design that users use to represent themselves online. On [[#F|forums]], avatars are simply the picture or icon that users display on their profile.
−	==B==	+	==B==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;[[MarioWiki:BJAODN|Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense]] (BJAODN): An archive created as a way of storing vandalism and poor writing that users consider to be humorous.	+	;[[Point Types | Benchmark]]: is a fixed point of reference used to locate a marked and recorded hazard or hazardous '''area'''. It should normally be located a short distance outside the hazardous area. It should be safe to walk from the Reference / Landmark to the Benchmark.
−	;[[Beta elements|Beta]]: A pre-release form of a video game. Beta versions of games are partially playable, but often do not utilize the final enemy placement, textures, or interface.
−	;Beta Elements: Concepts that appeared in early versions or pitchs of a video game, but were removed in the final version of the game.
−	;BGM: Abbreviation for background music
−	;Binary: A system of numerical notation to the base 2, in which each place of a number, expressed as 0 or 1, corresponds to a power of 2. The decimal number 58 appears as 111010 in binary notation, since 58 = 1 × 32 + 1 × 16 + 1 × 8 + 0 × 4 + 1 × 2 + 0 × 1.
−	;Bit : The unit of information; the amount of information obtained by asking a yes-or-no question; a computational quantity that can take on one of two values, such as false and true or 0 and 1; the smallest unit of storage - sufficient to hold one bit.
−	;[[Wikipedia:Bitmap|Bitmap]] (BMP): A picture created on a visual display unit where each pixel corresponds to one or more bits in memory, the number of bits per pixel determining the number of available colors.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Blocking Policy|Block]]: A restriction imposed upon a [[#S|sockpuppet]] or severely misbehaving user by an Administrator that prevents them from editing the database.
−	;Board: A page on a [[#F|forum]] that groups together different [[#T|threads]] that fit in the same category. For example, the [[#W|Wiki Collaborations]] board is where users can discuss projects related to the wiki. Boards may be sub-divided into more specific "child boards".
−	;Body paragraphs: The main text of an article, as opposed to lists of [[#T|Trivia]] points, compilations of stats and biographies, etc.
−	;Bug: An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, especially one that causes it to malfunction. E.g. "There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backward." The identification and removal of bugs in a program is called "debugging".
−	;[[MarioWiki:Bureaucrats|Bureaucrats]]: [[#A|Administrators]] that have Rename User rights, as well as their usual administrative rights.
−	;Byte: Adjacent bits, usually eight, processed by a computer as a unit. Larger units are called kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terrabytes, etc.
−	==C==	+	==C==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;Cache: A small fast memory holding recently accessed data, designed to speed up subsequent access to the same data. Most often applied to processor-memory access but also used for a local copy of data accessible over a network etc.	+	;C-IED: Counter-Improvised Explosive Device is an activity done by a nation’s security forces (i.e. '''not''' humanitarian demining organisations). It includes all elements of defeating IEDs and the people funding, making and laying them, so not only neutralising the devices ([[Glossary#I |IEDD]]) but tracking where components came from, who made the IED, who planted it etc.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Coverage#Cameos|Cameo]]: A brief appearance of a character, species or item in a medium (a game, movie, comic, etc.) other than the one it originated in. The cameo is of no lasting importance to the subject or the medium in which it appears.	+	;CCM: [http://www.clusterconvention.org/ Convention on Cluster Munitions]
−	;[[MarioWiki:Canonicity|Canon]]: A system of classification that separates official media products from unofficial media products and official but disowned works, therefore determining which characters, locations, events, etc. "actually" exist in a series' fictional universe.	+	;CCW: [https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/INTRO/500?OpenDocument Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons]
−	;[[MarioWiki:Conjecture|Conjecture]]: An unofficial name for something.	+	;CDF: [[Custom Defined Fields]] are fields that allows you to create fields for country specific needs.
−	;Cookie: A piece of data downloaded to a computer by a website, containing details of the preferences of that computer's user, which identifies the user when revisiting that website.	+	;Centroid: The geometric center of a feature. For line, polygon, or three-dimensional features, it is the center of mass (or center of gravity) and may fall inside the feature or outside the feature.
−	;CPU (central processing unit): Refers to a computerized [[player]] or opponent in a game. Also known as AI (artificial intelligence).	+	;CHA: Confirmed Hazardous Area, refers to an area where the presence of mine/ERW contamination has been confirmed on the basis of direct evidence of the presence of mines/ERW.
−	;[[Help:CSS|CSS]] (Cascading Style Sheets): An extension to HTML to allow styles, e.g. colour, font, size to be specified for certain elements of a hypertext document. Style information can be included in-line in the HTML file or in a separate CSS file (which can then be easily shared by multiple HTML files). Multiple levels of CSS can be used to allow selective overriding of styles.	+	;CRPD: [http://www.un.org/disabilities/ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities]
−	==D==	+	==D==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;Dynamic Page List (DPL):A MediaWiki extension that allows a user to generate a list of articles that meet certain specified criteria. DPL is no longer used on the Super Mario Wiki.	+	;[[Data Categories | Data Category]]: The Data Inventory Manager allows you to organise item attributes into meaningful groupings, or data categories.
−	;DYK: Short for "Did You Know?"	+	;[[Using Data Entry Forms|Data Entry Form]]: Data entry forms are used to collect mine action data such as accidents and victims, land, activities, locations, education activities, and quality management information and display them in a standardised format. They used to be called Field Reports.
		+	;[[Data Entry Form Templates]]: They are forms that can are used for adding data IMSMA. Templates are created by IMSMA administrators.
		+	;[[Data Inventory Manager]]: Using Data Inventory Manager, information managers can create new data elements or modify existing elements to map to their programme’s information needs.
		+	;Derived field: a field that is calculated from another object
−	==E==	+	==E==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;Easter Egg: A message hidden in the object code of a program as a joke, intended to be found by persons disassembling or browsing the code.	+	;EOD: Explosive Ordnance Disposal, the detection, identification, evaluation, render safe, recovery and disposal of explosive ordnance.
−	;Edit Conflict: When two or more users attempt to edit the same page or page section at the same time. After one user saves his/her changes, the rest get edit conflicts. Their changes are not saved; instead, the new version of the page is provided for them to re-edit. A textbox with the version of the page they were going to submit is also presented to them, and the difference between the two is shown.	+	;ERW: Explosive Remnants of War, includes landmines, Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) and Abandoned Explosive Ordnance (AXO).
−	;Edit War: Two or more users persistently reverting each other's edits. Edit Warring is a [[MarioWiki:Warning Policy#Level Two Offenses|warnable offense]].	+	;[[Point Types | Evidence point]]: is used for Cluster munitions and other UXO. It is used for recording where ordnance are found i.e. a strong claim with high confidence
−	==F==	+	==F==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;[[MarioWiki:Featured Article|Featured Article]] (FA): An article that represents the best that the Super Mario Wiki has to offer.
−	;Filler Character: A conjectural term used for characters that were created to fill a void. For example, [[Waluigi]] is the opposite to [[Luigi]] as [[Wario]] is to [[Mario]].
−	;Forum: A website where users can discuss just about anything. The MarioWiki has a forum called the [[#S|Super Mario Boards]].
−	;[[Fourth Wall]]: "Breaking the fourth wall" is when a video game character happens to notice that he or she is in a video game, or when he or she refers directly to the player.
−	==G==	+	==G==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;[[Wikipedia:Graphics Interchange Format|GIF]] (Graphics Interchange Format): A standard compressed file format used for pictures. This format allows graphic movements through a sequence of images.	+	;GICHD: [http://www.gichd.org/ Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining]
−	;[[Glitch]]: A programming error in a video game that results in unintended behaviour, ranging from characters falling through solid objects or otherwise defying proper gameplay, to game freezes and the corruption or loss of saved data.	+	;GIS: Geographic Information System
−	;GMT (Greenwich Mean Time): The time zone corresponding to the Prime Meridian, which passes through the Greenwich district of London in the United Kingdom. It it equivalent to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from which all other time zones are offset. [[#P|Proposals]] follow GMT time.	+	;GMAP: Gender and Mine Action Programme
		+	;GPS: Global positioning system
−	==H==	+	==H==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;Hexadecimal (Hex): A numbering system that uses 16 as the radix, employing the numerals 0 through 9 and representing digits greater than 9 with the letters A through F.
−	;HTML (Hypertext Markup Language): A set of standards used to tag elements of a hypertext document (such as this wiki). It is regularly used for displaying pages and formatting in the World Wide Web.
−	;HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol): The standard protocol for transferring hypertext documents on the World Wide Web. Compare HTML.
−	==I==	+	==I==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;IP (Internet Protocol) address: A code used to label packets of data sent across the internet, identifying both the sending and the receiving computers. Admins can check users and find matching IP addresses, in order to track down [[#S|Sockpuppets]].	+	;IED: Improvised Explosive Device is a device placed or fabricated in an improvised manner incorporating destructive, lethal, noxious, pyrotechnic or incendiary chemicals and designed to destroy, incapacitate, harass or distract.
		+	;IEDD: Improvised Explosive Device Disposal means neutralising the device which is '''not''' the same as '''[[Glossary#C | C-IED]]'''.
		+	;IDP: Internally Displaced Person
		+	;IM: Information Management
		+	;IMSMA: Information Management System for Mine Action
		+	;IMSMA Legacy: refers to IMSMA version 1 - 3
		+	;IMSMA NG: IMSMA New Generation, refers to IMSMA version 4 - 6 and should be written {{IMSMANG}}
		+	;IMAS: [http://www.mineactionstandards.org/ International Mine Action Standards]
		+	;Items:  There are three different type of items in IMSMA:
		+	# [[Location Summary Window | Location]],
		+	# [[Task Tab | Task]]
		+	# [[Land Summary Window | Land]], [[Activity Summary Window | Activity]], [[Accident Summary Window | Accident]], [[Victim Summary Window | Victim]], [[Assistance Summary Window | Assistance]], [[Education Summary Window | Education]] and [[QM Summary Window | QM]].
		+	:They can be viewed in the [[Items Pane]] of the [[IMSMA Navigation Window]].
−	==J==	+	==J==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;[[Wikipedia:JPEG|JPEG]] or JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group): A standard file format for compressing pictures by disposing of redundant pixels.
−	==K==	+	==K==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	==L==	+	==L==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;Life: In platformer games, there are a certain amount of lives that the player has. He or she can lose them by being hit by enemies too much or gain them by finding extra lives. If the player loses all of his or her lives, a [[Game Over]] ensues.	+	;[[Point Types | Landmark]]: is a fixed point of reference some distance outside the hazardous '''area''. It should be an easily recognised feature (such as a cross-roads or a bridge) which can be used to assist in navigating to one or more benchmarks.
−	;Log: A record of the activity of some system, often stored in a particular file. Public logs for the Super Mario Wiki can be seen [[Special:Log|here]].
−	==M==	+	==M==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;Marioverse: An informal term used by fans to describe the entirety of the ''Mario'' series, often from an in-universe perspective.	+	;maXML: [[XML Documentation | Mine Action Extensible Markup Language]]
−	;Merge: When the information from two or more articles are combined into a single page. This happens when it is decided that the two subjects are similar enough to be considered the same thing, or when one of the merged subjects was determined to be undeserving of its own article.	+	;MBT: Mine Ban Treaty, another acronym for APMBC [http://www.apminebanconvention.org/ Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention]
−	;[[Help:Editing#Minor edits|Minor edit]]: An edit that doesn't really change the content of a page, but rather, fixes small details or mistakes, and other such maintenance work.	+	;MGRS: Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO for locating points on the earth. The MGRS is derived from the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system and the universal polar stereographic (UPS) grid system, but uses a different labelling convention. The MGRS is used for the entire earth. An example of an MGRS coordinate, or grid reference, would be 4QFJ12345678, which consists of three parts:
−	;Move: When an article is moved to a new name. This can happen when subjects are renamed over the course of the ''Mario'' series itself, or when a more appropriate and/or useful name is discovered, revealed or suggested.	+	: '''4Q''' (grid zone designator, GZD)
		+	: '''FJ''' (the 100,000-meter square identifier)
		+	: '''12345678''' (numerical location; easting is 1234 and northing is 5678, in this case specifying a location with 10 m resolution).
		+	;MINT: (Mine action INTelligence) which was a business intelligence tool developed by GICHD
		+	;MIQ: Mine action Information management Qualification, old term for the different levels of '''[[Portal:Training | IMSMA training]]'''
−	==N==	+	==N==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;Newbie (also known as Noob or n00b): A newcomer or novice, especially an inexperienced user of the Internet or of computers in general.	+	;[[IMSMA Navigation Window | Navigation Window]]:The IMSMA Navigation window is the main window from which all of IMSMA’s features are accessed. The window contains a menu toolbar, a status bar, and three panes: the country structure pane, map pane, and items pane.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance|NIWA]] (Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance): A network of independent wikis striving to chronicle the many diverse video game universes created by Nintendo.	+	;NMAS: National Mine Action Standards but could also refer to National Mine Action Strategy.
−	;NPC: Abbreviation for "non-playable character". Refers to any character in a video game that cannot be used by the [[player]]. Some examples are [[Bowser]] and [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] in ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''	+	;Notification area: a notification area (also system tray or status area) is the portion of the user interface that displays icons for system and program features that have no presence on the desktop as well as the time and the volume icon. It contains mainly icons that show status information, though some programs, use it for minimized windows. By default, this is located in the bottom-right of the primary monitor (or bottom-left on languages of Windows that use right-to-left reading order), or at the bottom of the taskbar if docked vertically.
−	;NSFW: Abbreviation for "Not Safe for Work". It usually refers to something with swearing, gore, sexual references, drugs, nudity, etc.	+	;Novetta Solutions: The consulant company that was first contracted for IMSMA software development
		+	;NTS: Non-Technical Survey, refers to the collection and analysis of data, without the use of technical interventions, about the presence, type, distribution and surrounding environment of mine/ERW contamination, in order to define better where mine/ERW contamination is present, and where it is not, and to support land release prioritisation and decision-making processes through the provision of evidence.
−	==O==	+	==O==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	==P==	+	==P==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;[[MarioWiki:Patrollers|Patrollers]]: Users who are given blocking, rollbacking, patrolling, and CheckUser rights.	+	;P-code : A P-code, short for Place code, is referring to:
−	;Per: Used before a username/a group of users (i.e. "Per X", or "Per all") to indicate that the person agrees with that/those user(s). Used in voting for Featured Articles, Proposals, etc. Etymologically, "''per''" is Latin for "through", so literally, the voter is expressing their opinion through the other user(s).	+	* a unique identifier of parts of the Country Structure defined by a governmental organization;
−	;[[MarioWiki:PipeProject|PipeProjects]]: Projects to improve the wiki or certain aspects of it; users can add their usernames to the Pipe Project if they believe they can help. PipeProjects are no longer used on the Super Mario Wiki. Instead, we have the [[#W|Wiki Collaborations]] forum board.	+	* a kind of addressing system used mostly by emergency response teams. It provides unique identifiers to thousands of locations and administrative units in a humanitarian operation. The p-codes are represented by combinations of letters and/or numbers to identify a specific location or feature on a map or within a database. These codes provide a systematic means of linking data to an unambiguous location. Any information that is tagged with P-codes can be combined and analyzed with any other p-coded data. The p-codes for a country can be found in the Common Operational Datasets, which are standard geographic references for the humanitarian community provided by UN OCHA.
−	;Plagiarism: The copying of another person's work without giving any credit to the original author. This also includes altering the text (such as making the switch from active to passive (Ex: "Mario stomped on the Goomba" to "The Goomba was stomped by Mario.").	+	==Q==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;[[Wikipedia:Portable Network Graphics|PNG]] (Portable Network Graphics): An extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images.	+	;QA: Quality Assurance (QA) part of QM focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled. [ISO 9000:2000]
−	;Port: A game that was originally released on previous consoles or handhelds that is transferred to a different console or handheld with little to no changes regarding gameplay.	+	:Note: The purpose of QA in humanitarian demining is to confirm that management practices and operational procedures for demining are appropriate, are being applied, and will achieve the stated requirement in a safe, effective and efficient manner. Internal QA will be conducted by demining organisations themselves, but external inspections by an external monitoring body should also be conducted.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Proposals|Proposal]]: The formal suggestion of an idea that is major enough to require the input of various users, who then vote to determine if the suggested changes will or will not be enacted.
−	==Q==	+	;QC: Quality Control (QC) part of QM focused on fulfilling quality requirements. [ISO 9000:2000]
		+	:Note: QC relates to the inspection of a finished product. In the case of humanitarian demining, the 'product' is safe cleared land.
−	==R==	+	;QM: Quality Management(QM) coordinated activities to direct and control an organisation with regard to quality. [ISO 9000:2000]
−	;Recovery: The act of regaining one's health, usually through restorative items, such as [[Coin]]s or [[Mushroom]]s. Alternate methods include visiting [[Toad House]]s or [[Inn]]s. In ''[[Super Smash Bros. (series)|Super Smash Bros.]]'' games, the term refers either to reducing one's damage percentage or returning to the stage after being attacked or falling.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Redirects|Redirect]]: A page that is created with the purpose of leading users that search for the page to another page with a similar name.
−	;RAM (Random Access Memory): The main memory of a computer, in which data can be stored or retrieved from all locations at the same (usually very high) speed.
−	;ROM (Read Only Memory): Computer memory in which program instructions, operating procedures, or other data are permanently stored, generally on electronic chips during manufacture, and that ordinarily cannot be changed by the user.
−	;RPG: Short for Role Playing Game. Some examples are ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'' and ''[[Paper Mario]]''.
−	==S==	+	==R==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;Self-Destruct (or SD): The act of knocking oneself out in a ''[[Super Smash Bros. (series)|Super Smash Bros.]]'' game or defeating a teammate. A common example is missing a [[jump]] from one [[platform]] to the next and falling into the [[Pit (obstacle)|bottomless pit]].	+	;[[Point Types | Reference point]]: is a fixed point of reference some distance outside the hazardous '''area'''. It should be an easily recognised feature (such as a cross-roads or a bridge) which can be used to assist in navigating to one or more benchmarks.
−	;Server: A program that provides some service to other (client) programs. The connection between client and server is normally by means of message passing, often over a network, and uses some protocol to encode the client's requests and the server's responses.
−	;SFX: Abbreviation for sound effects
−	;Sidescroller: A linear type of level that is shown from a perspective where the directions forward and backward are represented as left and right.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Signature|Signature]] (sig): A user's name or a design that includes the name, which users put below or after their comments on talk pages to show that they were the one who wrote said comment. On [[#F|forums]], signatures are the text or words that appear beneath every one of a user's posts.
−	;[[The 'Shroom:Main Page|The 'Shroom]]: The Super Mario Wiki monthly newspaper.
−	;Sockpuppet or Sock Puppet: An extra online identity created by a member of a discussion forum, etc., to agree with opinions submitted under his or her usual online name, or to evade a block or ban imposed upon the original user.
−	;SPAM: Short for ''Stupid Pointless and Annoying Message''. It is a form of [[#V|vandalism]].
−	;Spin-off: A game that has other gameplay types rather than the usual gameplay type it has (eg: ''[[Mario Tennis (series)|Mario Tennis]]'', ''[[Mario Kart (series)|Mario Kart]]'').
−	;Split: When some information is taken out of one article and used to create another article on a subject that is now considered to be separate from the first, or otherwise deserving of its own unique article.
−	;Stub: An article that lacks sufficient information. A list of stub articles can be seen [[:Category:Stubs|here]].
−	;[[forum:|Super Mario Boards]]: A [[#F|forum]] where users can discuss just about anything, although much of the content is focused on the [[#M|Marioverse]]. There are also [[#boards|boards]] to discuss wiki-related matters, such as the [[#W|Wiki Collaborations]] board.
−	;[[Wikipedia:Scalable Vector Graphics|SVG]] (Scalable Vector Graphics): A file type which, unlike raster formats (PNG, JPEG, GIF), is comprised of vectors (shapes), rather than pixels. This means that the image retains the same quality for any size, even when displayed many times greater than the original size.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Administrators|Sysops]] (system operators): Users who are given deletion, blocking, rollback, CheckUser, protection, and patrolling rights. Also known as [[#A|Administrators]].
−	==T==	+	==S==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;[[Help:Template|Template]]: An electronic file with a predesigned, customized format and structure, as for a fax, letter, or expense report, ready to be filled in. Templates must be added with <nowiki>{{Template Name}}</nowiki>.	+	;SADD: Sex- and Age-Disaggregated Data
−	;Thread: A topic on a [[#F|forum]].	+	;SHA: Suspected Hazardous Area. refers to an area where there is reasonable suspicion of mine/ERW contamination on the basis of indirect evidence of the presence of mines/ERW.
−	;TOC: Short for Table of Contents.	+	;SOPs: Standard Operating Procedures, instructions which define the preferred or currently established method of conducting an operational task or activity. Their purpose is to promote recognisable and measurable degrees of discipline, uniformity, consistency and commonality within an organisation, with the aim of improving operational effectiveness and safety. SOPs should reflect local requirements and circumstances.
−	;[[Wikipedia:Troll (Internet)|Troll]]: In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.	+	;Subobject: Subobjects are subcategories within certain IMSMA items (land, activity, accident, victim, education, organisation, task). Subobjects are normally displayed in table format.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Proposals#Talk Page Proposals|Talk Page Proposal]] (TPP): Like a [[#P|proposal]], but since its outcome should affect only one or two articles (typically involving [[#S|spitting]] or [[#M|merging]]), it is held on one of those articles' talk pages, rather than the main proposal page.	+	;[[Summary Window]]: A Summary Window displays when you open an object from the Items Pane of the IMSMA Navigation window. The Summary Window shows the most important available fields that have been selected to be included from the Data Entry Form.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Trivia|Trivia]]: Miscellaneous points of information that are ideally incorporated into the [[B|body paragraphs]] of articles, yet which are often given their own section on an article.
−	==U==	+	==T==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;[[Unlockable]]: A character, gameplay mode, item, or other element of a video game that can be accessed only after completing a certain task in the game.	+	;TS: Technical Survey, refers to the collection and analysis of data, using appropriate technical interventions, about the presence, type, distribution and surrounding environment of mine/ERW contamination, in order to define better where mine/ERW contamination is present, and where it is not, and to support land release prioritisation and decision making processes through the provision of evidence.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Userbox]]: Boxes that users are free to create and use to describe their likes, dislikes, favorites, and other pieces of information about themselves.
−	;Userbox Tower: A user's unique tower of userboxes. Starts with the {{tem|Userboxtop}} template and ends with the {{tem|Userboxbottom}} template, with userboxes in between.
−	;[[MarioWiki:Userspace|Userspace]]: Anything that belongs to a user such as their signature, certain sub-pages, talk pages, and the user page itself.
−	==V==	+	==U==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;[[MarioWiki:Vandalism|Vandalism]]: Any addition, deletion, or altering of content intended for the sole purpose of disrupting the peace of the wiki.	+	;UAV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (piloted by remote control) used for taking aerial photos of an area.
−	;[[List of Cancelled Games and Vaporware|Vaporware]]: A term for games that did start development but were never actually published.	+	;UN: United Nations
		+	;[[Point Types | Usage point]]: is used for Cluster munitions and other UXO. Usage point has three main types: verified target point, intended target point and firing point (both land and air)
		+	;UXO: Unexploded Ordnance, explosive ordnance that has been primed, fuzed, armed or otherwise prepared for use or used. It may have been fired, dropped, launched or projected yet remains unexploded either through malfunction or design or for any other reason.
−	==W==	+	==V==__NOEDITSECTION__
−	;[[wikipedia:wiki|Wiki]]: Software that allows users to create, edit, and link web pages easily. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites.
−	;[[forumboard:57|Wiki Collaborations]]: A [[#F|forum]] board where wiki editors can collaborate on projects and discuss wiki matters.
−	;World Wide Web (www) : The complete set of electronic documents stored on computers that are connected over the Internet and are made available by the protocol known as HTTP. The World Wide Web makes up a large part of the Internet.
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		+	;xml: Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. The Mine Action sector has defined a schema, [[XML Documentation | maXML]], for data sharing.
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A

APMBC

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention

ArcGIS

It is a software suite developed by ESRI Inc. IMSMA incorporates the ArcGIS Engine to display the geographical data in the map pane

Auxiliary Data

Auxiliary data provide supplementary or additional information to the main items/objects in IMSMA. Auxiliary data is of the following types in IMSMA: Country structure, Organisation, Place, Ordnance classification, Cause classification, Needs classification and Assistance classification.

AXO

Abandoned Explosive Ordnance, explosive ordnance that has not been used during an armed conflict, that has been left behind or dumped by a party to an armed conflict, and which is no longer under control of the party that left it behind or dumped it. Abandoned explosive ordnance may or may not have been primed, fuzed, armed or otherwise prepared for use. (CCW protocol V)

B

Benchmark

is a fixed point of reference used to locate a marked and recorded hazard or hazardous area. It should normally be located a short distance outside the hazardous area. It should be safe to walk from the Reference / Landmark to the Benchmark.

C

C-IED

Counter-Improvised Explosive Device is an activity done by a nation’s security forces (i.e. not humanitarian demining organisations). It includes all elements of defeating IEDs and the people funding, making and laying them, so not only neutralising the devices (IEDD) but tracking where components came from, who made the IED, who planted it etc.

CCM

Convention on Cluster Munitions

CCW

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

CDF

Custom Defined Fields are fields that allows you to create fields for country specific needs.

Centroid

The geometric center of a feature. For line, polygon, or three-dimensional features, it is the center of mass (or center of gravity) and may fall inside the feature or outside the feature.

CHA

Confirmed Hazardous Area, refers to an area where the presence of mine/ERW contamination has been confirmed on the basis of direct evidence of the presence of mines/ERW.

CRPD

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

D

Data Category

The Data Inventory Manager allows you to organise item attributes into meaningful groupings, or data categories.

Data Entry Form

Data entry forms are used to collect mine action data such as accidents and victims, land, activities, locations, education activities, and quality management information and display them in a standardised format. They used to be called Field Reports.

Data Entry Form Templates

They are forms that can are used for adding data IMSMA. Templates are created by IMSMA administrators.

Data Inventory Manager

Using Data Inventory Manager, information managers can create new data elements or modify existing elements to map to their programme’s information needs.

Derived field

a field that is calculated from another object

E

EOD

Explosive Ordnance Disposal, the detection, identification, evaluation, render safe, recovery and disposal of explosive ordnance.

ERW

Explosive Remnants of War, includes landmines, Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) and Abandoned Explosive Ordnance (AXO).

Evidence point

is used for Cluster munitions and other UXO. It is used for recording where ordnance are found i.e. a strong claim with high confidence

F

G

GICHD

Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining

GIS

Geographic Information System

GMAP

Gender and Mine Action Programme

GPS

Global positioning system

H

I

IED

Improvised Explosive Device is a device placed or fabricated in an improvised manner incorporating destructive, lethal, noxious, pyrotechnic or incendiary chemicals and designed to destroy, incapacitate, harass or distract.

IEDD

Improvised Explosive Device Disposal means neutralising the device which is not the same as C-IED.

IDP

Internally Displaced Person

IM

Information Management

IMSMA

Information Management System for Mine Action

IMSMA Legacy

refers to IMSMA version 1 - 3

IMSMA NG

IMSMA New Generation, refers to IMSMA version 4 - 6 and should be written IMSMA^NG

IMAS

International Mine Action Standards

Items

There are three different type of items in IMSMA:

1. Location,
2. Task
3. Land, Activity, Accident, Victim, Assistance, Education and QM.

They can be viewed in the Items Pane of the IMSMA Navigation Window.

J

K

L

Landmark

is a fixed point of reference some distance outside the hazardous 'area. It should be an easily recognised feature (such as a cross-roads or a bridge) which can be used to assist in navigating to one or more benchmarks.

M

maXML

Mine Action Extensible Markup Language

MBT

Mine Ban Treaty, another acronym for APMBC Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention

MGRS

Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO for locating points on the earth. The MGRS is derived from the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system and the universal polar stereographic (UPS) grid system, but uses a different labelling convention. The MGRS is used for the entire earth. An example of an MGRS coordinate, or grid reference, would be 4QFJ12345678, which consists of three parts:

4Q (grid zone designator, GZD)

FJ (the 100,000-meter square identifier)

12345678 (numerical location; easting is 1234 and northing is 5678, in this case specifying a location with 10 m resolution).

MINT

(Mine action INTelligence) which was a business intelligence tool developed by GICHD

MIQ

Mine action Information management Qualification, old term for the different levels of IMSMA training

N

Navigation Window

The IMSMA Navigation window is the main window from which all of IMSMA’s features are accessed. The window contains a menu toolbar, a status bar, and three panes: the country structure pane, map pane, and items pane.

NMAS

National Mine Action Standards but could also refer to National Mine Action Strategy.

Notification area

a notification area (also system tray or status area) is the portion of the user interface that displays icons for system and program features that have no presence on the desktop as well as the time and the volume icon. It contains mainly icons that show status information, though some programs, use it for minimized windows. By default, this is located in the bottom-right of the primary monitor (or bottom-left on languages of Windows that use right-to-left reading order), or at the bottom of the taskbar if docked vertically.

Novetta Solutions

The consulant company that was first contracted for IMSMA software development

NTS

Non-Technical Survey, refers to the collection and analysis of data, without the use of technical interventions, about the presence, type, distribution and surrounding environment of mine/ERW contamination, in order to define better where mine/ERW contamination is present, and where it is not, and to support land release prioritisation and decision-making processes through the provision of evidence.

O

P

P-code 

A P-code, short for Place code, is referring to:

• a unique identifier of parts of the Country Structure defined by a governmental organization;
• a kind of addressing system used mostly by emergency response teams. It provides unique identifiers to thousands of locations and administrative units in a humanitarian operation. The p-codes are represented by combinations of letters and/or numbers to identify a specific location or feature on a map or within a database. These codes provide a systematic means of linking data to an unambiguous location. Any information that is tagged with P-codes can be combined and analyzed with any other p-coded data. The p-codes for a country can be found in the Common Operational Datasets, which are standard geographic references for the humanitarian community provided by UN OCHA.

Q

QA

Quality Assurance (QA) part of QM focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled. [ISO 9000:2000]

Note: The purpose of QA in humanitarian demining is to confirm that management practices and operational procedures for demining are appropriate, are being applied, and will achieve the stated requirement in a safe, effective and efficient manner. Internal QA will be conducted by demining organisations themselves, but external inspections by an external monitoring body should also be conducted.

QC

Quality Control (QC) part of QM focused on fulfilling quality requirements. [ISO 9000:2000]

Note: QC relates to the inspection of a finished product. In the case of humanitarian demining, the 'product' is safe cleared land.

QM

Quality Management(QM) coordinated activities to direct and control an organisation with regard to quality. [ISO 9000:2000]

R

Reference point

is a fixed point of reference some distance outside the hazardous area. It should be an easily recognised feature (such as a cross-roads or a bridge) which can be used to assist in navigating to one or more benchmarks.

S

SADD

Sex- and Age-Disaggregated Data

SHA

Suspected Hazardous Area. refers to an area where there is reasonable suspicion of mine/ERW contamination on the basis of indirect evidence of the presence of mines/ERW.

SOPs

Standard Operating Procedures, instructions which define the preferred or currently established method of conducting an operational task or activity. Their purpose is to promote recognisable and measurable degrees of discipline, uniformity, consistency and commonality within an organisation, with the aim of improving operational effectiveness and safety. SOPs should reflect local requirements and circumstances.

Subobject

Subobjects are subcategories within certain IMSMA items (land, activity, accident, victim, education, organisation, task). Subobjects are normally displayed in table format.

Summary Window

A Summary Window displays when you open an object from the Items Pane of the IMSMA Navigation window. The Summary Window shows the most important available fields that have been selected to be included from the Data Entry Form.

T

TS

Technical Survey, refers to the collection and analysis of data, using appropriate technical interventions, about the presence, type, distribution and surrounding environment of mine/ERW contamination, in order to define better where mine/ERW contamination is present, and where it is not, and to support land release prioritisation and decision making processes through the provision of evidence.

U

UAV

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (piloted by remote control) used for taking aerial photos of an area.

UN

United Nations

Usage point

is used for Cluster munitions and other UXO. Usage point has three main types: verified target point, intended target point and firing point (both land and air)

UXO

Unexploded Ordnance, explosive ordnance that has been primed, fuzed, armed or otherwise prepared for use or used. It may have been fired, dropped, launched or projected yet remains unexploded either through malfunction or design or for any other reason.

V

W

X

xml

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. The Mine Action sector has defined a schema, maXML, for data sharing.

Y

Z

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