Category:Policies

Policies on this wiki apply to either WikTide Meta itself (Local policies) or across the wiki farm (global policies). These pages define the structure, rules and practices of the wiki farm. Documentation may exist to supplement them, but these pages take precedence if any conflict exists.

At this time, many policies are temporary or provisional: they are written by the platform's founding personnel to start the farm, but they are subject to change and will be reviewed and ratified through community input in the near future. A temporary policy only exists to offer some guidance where none exists, and will likely be rewritten so it can become provisional: created to set the standard until it can be considered permanent and only be modified with strong justification and after a community discussion. More about how these work is discussed on the respective category pages. This system will disappear as provisional pages are completed, reviewed, and identified as permanent.

In all cases, policies should not be drafted lightly: they should begin in the founding author's userspace until they can be reviewed by representatives and formalized as a provisional policy. When implemented, further changes should be discussed on respective talk pages. Only minor edits to clarify wording or correct errors should be made if they are not protected. More major changes may be done at will to provisional policies to get them off the ground. This will also change as the wiki farm becomes more established.

Local wikis are free to develop policy as they wish so long as the policy does not contradict global policies (particularly Content Policy). If no policies exist and platform staff must intervene, global practice will be used as a baseline.

This is a top level category. Few pages (if any) should link here directly.