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Aliases
[edit]An alias is one string defined to mean another. Another term for "alias" is "shortcut". In the script, the following aliases are used:
$
is the alias for jQuery (the jQuery library)
mw
is the alias for mediawiki (the mediawiki library)
These two aliases are set up like this:
( function ( mw, $ ) {}( mediaWiki, jQuery ) );
That also happens to be a "bodyguard function", which is explained in the section below...