Protocols

Org Member Responsibilities

  • Voting is done by anyone eligible
  • Org members to welcome new members on their branded social media
  • Respectful and Professional conduct on branded wiki social media and on wiki

Events

  • Cross-Wiki participation
  • Holiday Events with special roles as prizes
  • Proposals for org events

Voting Guidelines

Voting Eligibility will be determined on the following basis:

  • Votes will be held for a period of a week. Please do take time to consider proposals, we can always reschedule for non urgent proposals.
  • Wiki members need to be verified by their org member’s representative. Once verified, users will be given the ‘wiki verified’ role.
  • To avoid a flood of new voters or sockpuppets, only existing verified users are eligible to vote.
  • All verified wiki editors can vote on a once per verified wiki basis, you may vote for each wiki that you are verified for. Editors must have been verified prior to an org proposal submitted date or membership/affiliate application filed date.
  • Wiki Owners & Founders are eligible to vote
  • Wiki-Farm/Wiki-Family Platform Owners are eligible to vote
  • Each wiki of a Wiki-Farm/Wiki-Family will have a representative to verify their editors
  • Verified Wiki-Farm/Wiki-Family editors are limited to voting only from their active wiki(s)
  • Wiki-Farm/Wiki-Family platform staff may cast a vote for their home wiki(s) only if actively editing.
  • Wiki-Farm/Wiki-Family platform staff whom do not regularly edit are ineligible to vote
  • Wiki-Farm/Wiki-Family wikis meant for official purposes [central hub, staff usage, official functions] are ineligible for wiki verification.
  • Wiki-Farm/Wiki-Family representatives should not verify inactive users.
  • All votes will be weighted using the Penrose method on a per org member personnel count.
  • If you are verified with multiple org members, your vote will count for each verified wiki you vote for.
  • The proportional weight is subject to the mathematical floor function. Lowest weight will be 1.
  • Tiebreaker votes will be cast by IWF staff member Evalprime or Honorary Staff members Rabite, Vipzer.

PRECEDENT

In using the term “personnel”, we refer to community members from an org member.

  • Expulsion votes will be by secret ballot without personnel from the nominated org member present.
  • An unanimous majority of founding member’s personnel must vote in favor to expel another founding member.
  • It is preferred for an unanimous decision by all founding members, however a majority decision avoids absent or abstaining.
  • If any founding member’s personnel opposes the expulsion, the entire attempted expulsion vote will fail. Votes can be changed if further discussion convinces.
  • A majority of regular org member’s personnel voting in favor is irrelevant if any founding member’s personnel opposes.
  • We expect all voters to independently research the situation.
  • Founding member staff or their personnel whom commit conduct unbecoming behavior and damage expected role model behavior will be subject to a 3 stage process.
  • Immediate loss of access to the founding-members channel as It is a special privilege and honor. The relevant Wiki Representative will be informed of situation to handle in-house. Accused user will be muted for a set time.
  • If Wiki Representative refuses to deal with disruptive user > the user will be subject to server removal.
  • Wiki Representative will be informed of org membership suspension. Further irresponsible behavior will trigger expulsion process.
  • An external attack on any IWF staff member, Advisory Council member, or Org member is considered an attack on the IWF alliance. IWF will defend our community accordingly.
  • An internal attack on any IWF staff member, Advisory Council member, or Org member will be handled in-house.
  • Depending on severity, a heated argument that triggers a full blown public fight will result in membership suspension or expulsion process.
  • Regular org member staff or personnel whom commit conduct unbecoming behavior will be subject to the following process:
  • The relevant Wiki Representative will be informed of situation to handle in-house. Accused user will be muted for a set time.
  • If Wiki Representative refuses to deal with disruptive user > the user will be subject to server removal.
  • Wiki Representative will be informed of org membership suspension. Further irresponsible behavior will trigger expulsion process.