WikiIndex:Consensus: Difference between revisions

'''Consensus''' is arrived at on WikiIndex through discussion. There is a hierarchy on the site for technical and legal reasons but decision-making is encouraged through community input. In practice, this can be difficult to achieve when the community is small or many members are inactive.

WikiIndex is owned by [[MarkDilley]]. He can control if the site goes offline or changes from [[MediaWiki]] to a different software engine, etc. He does not rule the wiki like a [[godking]]. [[Sysop]]s are appointed and dismissed by [[bureaucrat]]s who are accountable to no one but each other. Any sysop can unilaterally take an action such as blocking a user or deleting an article. If no other sysop reverses the action, then it stands. Actions like deletion and blocking should be done with caution and community input: once a pattern of such actions has been identified, the practice and the principle behind it can be codified by any user as an official WikiIndex policy. Sysops making contentious actions can be discussed at the [[WikiIndex:Community portal]]. If the community finds these actions unacceptable, other sysops can undo them or that person can have his rights modified.

[[Category:WikiIndex draft policies and guidelines]]