User:One-Six/Policy Policy

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Policies are the set of written rules and conventions that applies to the entirety of Moegirlpedia, set by either consensus from the community (generally reflected by an official vote) or by bureaucratic action. Policies governs the action of all users of Moegirlpedia; violation of policies usually results in a formal warning or an edit block or banThe page "Moegirlpedia:Block Policy" does not exist in English Moegirlpedia yet. You may want to refer to this page on Chinese Moegirlpedia: 萌娘百科:方针#用户封禁政策. (zh:萌娘百科:方针#用户封禁政策). Due to historical and technical reasons, English Moegirlpedia has adopted and will continue to adopt many Chinese Moegirlpedia policies; however, local policies that is native to English Moegirlpedia is an option too – this exact policy happens to be a specimen of such local policies.

For the purpose of English Moegirlpedia, a policy is a set of written rules and conventions, written in the "Project" namespace, ratified through a formal process as defined by the Policy Policy, and enacted by an active administrator. Policies applies to all users at all places at all times in English Moegirlpedia, with very few exceptions (such as the bureaucratic action).

In addition, Policy Policy also defines "local" and "global" policies, provides the process for the ratification and repealment of local policies, and establishes the convention for adoption, adaptation, and replacement of global policies.

Local policies

1. a local policy is a policy generated, ratified, and enacted in locally (in this case, in English Moegirlpedia); they apply to the local wiki and its community only.

Global policies

Global policies are, presently, the backbone of the English Moegirlpedia policy structure. Since the spun-off of the English language project, most of the editors of English Moegirlpedia come from the Chinese language project (often known as the "main site") who tends to follow Chinese project policies and guidelines by habit and convention. In addition, with an unsevered usergroup structure, English Moegirlpedia has had and will continue to have in the foreseeable future the same moderation team as the Chinese project. Thus, to contiune with the current convention, allow for quick ports and localizations of Chinese policies, prepare the English branch for greater independence in the future, and prevent internal policy conflicts between sister projects, the idea of global policy is used to simultaneously allow for the up-to-date adoption of Chinese Moegirlpedia policies and the adaptation and localization of the said policies to fit the English moegirlpedia need without the need of additional work at the Chinese project side.

The main difference between a global policy and a local policy with external source is that global policies updates with changes from the source. Any parts of a global policy not modified shall stay synced to the original; whenever the original global policy is changed, the translated version changes with it. In contrast, a local policy with external source are a mere translation and adaptation of an external document; change of that external document will not reflect in the corresponding local policy unless the community deems the update necessary (through a standard local policy revision/amendment process).

1. A global policy is a policy originally ratified by the global project of Moegirlpedia and intended for adoption by other local projects of Moegirlpedia.
2. The global project is a hypothetical project of Moegirlpedia that has the power to draft and ratify policies and guidelines for, make usergroup change to, provide high-level moderation for, and hold ultimate power and responsibility over all sister projects of Moegirlpedia. The global community refers to the community made up by all users of the global project, and the global authority refers to the authorities of the global project.
3. Until the formation of such global project, the English Moegrilpedia project assumes the Chinese Moegirlpedia project to be such global project.
4. For the purpose of English Moegirlpedia, the local project refers to the English Moegirlpedia itself, the local community refers to the community made up by all users of English Moegirlpedia, and the local authority refers to the authorities of English Moegirlpedia.
5. In addition to the global project, the local community may, by formal proposal, adopt a document from sources other then the global project as a global policy.

Adoption, localization, and adaptation

1. Adoption is the enactment of the global policy for use in English Moegirlpedia. Adoptions does not have to involve localization – non-localized but adopted global policies are still enforacble in the local community. Adoptions may or may not involve adpatation to the original global policy; if an adoption involves no adaptation, it is refered to as a Identical Adoption.
2. Localization is the translation of the global policy. This translation should not in anyway modify or alter the meaning of the orignal global policy.
3. Adaptation is the modification of the global policy for use in English Moegirlpedia; it may be made as in-line changes or amendments, as long as the addition, removal, and modification of the original text is made obvious. An adapted global policy should still be constantly updated against the original version, but the adaptations will stay as is unless modified via the standard process for changing policies.

Strength

1. A global policy may define its global strength as one of the following:
   1. A guideline (Chinese: 指引性) global policy is not automatically enforceable in English Moegirlpedia. Whenever a guideline global policy is enacted, the local community should hold discussion regarding whether to adopt or adapt such policy; if such discussions produce no result nor consensus, the guideline policy will only be treated as an official guideline and have no binding strength. A guideline policy rejected locally will not even be treated as guidelines.
   2. A standard (Chinese: 普通) global policy is automatically adopted locally when they are enacted and not subject to local rejection; however, local communities may choose to adapt it to better suit local use without any global intervention. At least one global authority should be notified when a new adaptation is passed locally to give the global authorities a chance to review the adaptation.
   3. A strict (Chinese: 强制性) global policy is automatically adopted locally when they are enacted and not subject to local rejection, and no local adaptation can be made unless reviewed and approved by at least two global administrators.
2. Strict and standard global strenghts may be refered to as "mandatory".
3. A global policy may define its different sections to have different global strengths.
4. A global policy with undefined global strength is treated as having standard global strength.

Local replacement policy

If necessary, a global policy that is not strict can be replaced by a local policy. The local replacement policy (an LRP) should serve the same principal function as the global policy being replaced.

A local replacement policy should be placed at

• "name of corresponding global policy/LRP/year.month of ratification" (e.g. Project:Usergroup policy/LRP/2021.4) once ratified locally
• "name of corresponding global policy" (e.g. Project:Usergroup policy) once approved (with the "/LRP/yyyy.mm" page kept as a redirect)
• "name of corresponding global policy/LRP/year.month of ratification" once replaced by a newer version or deprecated

The original corresponding global policy should be moved to "name of corresponding global policy/global" (e.g. Project:User group policy/global) once replaced by an LRP.

Adoption, reapproval, and deprecation of LRP's

The adoption of an LRP to replace a global policy should follow one of the conventions outlined below:

1. Standard route.
   1. Local ratification. The LRP is drafted and ratified by either the local community or local authoritative action with the convention analogous to ratification of a local policy. The local ratification effort should inspect to make sure that the LRP indeed serve the same principle function as the global policy being replaced and do not conflict with other global policies.
   2. Submission for global approval. Once ratified, a discussion thread shall be submitted by a local authority to the global community, where global authorities are notified requesting their approval of the LRP. At least two global authority needs to independently inspect and approve the LRP within 30 days of the submission for approval, before which the previous adoption or adaptation of the corresponding global policy remains in effect.
      • If the local community deems an LRP for a strict global policy is necessary, at least two global administrator must independently inspect and approve the LRP before the replacement can be made.
      • For the purpose of English Moegirlpedia, an approval that originated from a global authority who drafted or co-sponsored the LRP in question does not count.
   3. Enactment. Once approved by the global authorities, the LRP goes into effect and replaces the corresponding global policy. If the approval period lapses before enough approval is gained, the previous adoption or adaptation of the corresponding global policy remains in effect, and the LRP is considered deprecated.
      • Request of approval for LRP should not be submitted within 90 days of the last request regarding the same corresponding global policy.
2. Global bureaucratic action.

The reapproval of an LRP, required when either the LRP or the corresponding global policy is changed, should follow the convention outlined below:

1. Initiation. The reapproval process is initiated when one of the following event occurs:
   1. Update to corresponding global policy. The LRP must be reapproved whenever the corresponding global policy is updated. If necessary, changes to the LRP may be made and ratified through either the local community or local authoritative action with the convention analogous to changing a local policy.
      • Global authorities are not responsible for notifying changes to the global policy.
   2. Update to LRP. The LRP must be reapproved whenever it is changed. Changes to the LRP may be made and ratified at any time through either the local community or local authoritative action with the convention analogous to changing a local policy.
2. Submission for global reapproval. A discussion thread shall be submitted by a local authority to the global community, where global authorities are notified requesting their approval of the LRP. At least two global authority needs to independently inspect and approve the LRP within 30 days of the submission for approval, before which the latest approved version of the LRP remains in effect.
3. Enactment. Once approved by the global authorities, the new version of the LRP goes into effect and replaces the last version. If the approval period lapses before enough approval is gained, the latest approved version of the LRP remains in effect, and the new version of the LRP is considered deprecated.
   • Request of approval for LRP should not be submitted within 90 days of the last request regarding the same corresponding global policy, unless the LRP requires reapproval due to update to corresponding global policy, in which case the cool down time is reduced to 15 days.

The Deprecation of an LRP should follow the convention outlined below:

1. Local deprecation. A locally initiated deprecation of a LRP is equivalent to a local update to the said LRP; follow the convention outlined above.
2. Out-of-date deprecation. If 60 days pass since an update to the corresponding global policy or 7 days pass since the second update to the corresponding global policy, yet the LRP is still not reapproved, the LRP goes into "limbo": any formal challenge to the LRP immediately initiates a 30-day "last-chance" period, during which the LRP remains in effect and one last attempt to get the LRP changed (if necessary) and reapproved can be made. If it cannot be approved before the "last-chance" period lapses, the LRP cease to be in effect and is considered deprecated.
3. Global deprecation. The global community may deprecate LRP through either
   1. changing the corresponding global policy so it has the "strict" global strength; or
   2. through global bureaucratic action.

New request for approval of LRP may be made 15 days after the deprecation of the most recent version of a LRP regarding the same corresponding global policy.

Deprecation of global policy

Whenever the original global policy is deprecated by the source community, the local community should hold discussion about the fate of the corresponding translated or adapted policy or the LRP, until the end of which the policy in question remains in force. The local community may choose to keep the policy, upon which the formal global policy will simply become a normal local policy; or, the local community can choose to deprecate the policy. If the discussion produce no result nor consensus, a formal global policy is deprecated, and a LRP stays in effect as a local policy.

Deprecation of an adaptation of a global policy is equivalent to a new adaptation that removes all previous adaptations; follow the corresponding convention outlined above. If the deprecation is enacted, the global policy reverts to its original translated but unmodified state.

Deprecation of an adopted guideline global policy is equivalent to the deprecation of a local policy; follow the corresponding convention outlined above.

Sources of global policies

Before a creation of a specialized global governing body, the Chinese Moegirlpedia is treated as such body, and all policies enacted there will become global policies.

The local community can also chose to adopt or adapt policies from other Moegirlpedia as global policies.

Policy precedence

If policies conflict on a certain matter, the following precedence order is used, from the most powerful to the least:

1. "strict" global policy (including adaptations)
2. LRP of a "standard" global policy
3. "standard" global policy (including adaptations)
4. LRP of a "guideline" global policy
5. local policy
6. adopted "guideline" global policy (including adaptations)