Glossary¶
- amount
- Monetary value that will always be denominated in US cents.
- BID
- “Basic Identifier” for handling either a user or an entry. See Abstract Basic Bot’s explanation of BIDs.
- comment
- Same as any other social media platform. Any entry can have comments (including other comments).
- donation
- A monetary transfer from any user to a nonprofit.
- event
- An occasion planned by a nonprofit with an associated place, time, and list of user RSVPs.
- entry
- Umbrella term that can refer to a donation, transaction, news article, event, or post.
- ibot
- “Ibis bot”; although the documentation text refers to them as “ibots”, the code will use the normal term “bot” more interchangeably.
- like
- Same as any other social media platform. Token Ibis represents likes as a True/False relationship between any user and any entry.
- news
- Written content released by a nonprofit organization.
- nonprofit
- A type of user that can receive donations but not transactions and can make news articles and events but not posts.
- person
- A type of user that can receive transactions but not donations and can make posts but not news articles or events. A person can be a human or an ibot.
- post
- Written content released by a person.
- resource
- A shared service that multiple bots in a deployment can access.
- RSVP
- A promise by a user that they plan to attend an event.
- transaction
- A monetary transfer from any user to a person.
- user
- Umbrella term that can refer to either a nonprofit or a person (which includes both humans and ibots).