Nookipedia:Proposals
Nookipedia Proposals allow the community to vote on sitewide changes that would affect a large number of pages or users. This process is not a replacement for community-wide input (see:The Roost) or talk page discussion. Rather, it takes the final product of those discussions (in the form of a proposal) and puts them to a vote.
Rules
- Proposals are only necessary for changes that would affect a large number of pages or users. Some examples: rules/policy changes, adding/removing namespaces, making major modifications to/replacing templates that affect 1000+ pages.
- Proposals are for voting on fully worked out ideas. They should be a binary yes/no choice and not have any yet-to-be-determined components: no 'option a, b, or c'. Proposals may be submitted without prior public comment or feedback, but should not receive major edits or changes once voting has started. If a proposal does not follow these rules or is otherwise deemed unfit, it may be vetoed at the discretion of a Bureaucrat.
- Proposals can only be submitted and voted upon by registered users. Comments or votes from unregistered users will be removed immediately. Furthermore, all votes or comments must have a signature attached (
~~~~). Users are not allowed to vote on their own proposal, but may respond to comments.
- Proposals will be open for seven days. This voting deadline can be extended upon request, at the discretion of a Bureaucrat.
- At the end of the voting period, if the proposal has at least a 2/3 majority (66%) support and five total votes it will be considered successful. A Bureaucrat will then officially close the proposal, and either enact it themselves, or coordinate with other staff members to make sure the proposal is completed.
- If the proposal does not have five votes at the end of the voting period, the voting period will be extended for seven days.
- Once a proposal has been enacted, the staff member responsible will make a note here and move the proposal to the Archives.
How to make a proposal
All proposals must be made using the template provided below, posted under the "Current Proposals" heading:
{{proposal
| title = A short, one-sentence description of the proposal.
| description = Additional proposal details/explanation.
| comments = User commentary on proposal.
| votes = User votes on proposal: {{Support}} or {{Oppose}} + signature (~~~~).
}}
Current proposals
There are no active proposals. For a record of past proposals, visit the Archive.
| Proposal: | Migrate Nookipedia from CC BY-SA 3.0 to 4.0 |
| Nookipedia is, like many other wikis, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. This proposal is to migrate Nookipedia to using version 4.0 of the same license. 4.0 has been available since 2013, and includes some good improvements and common sense changes -- see this article for full details. Improvements include explicitly allowing attribution by linking to a history page (practical for wikis); a 30-day window to correct license violations; and better internationalization.
Wikipedia moved to 4.0 last year (see this blog post), and a growing number of our fellow NIWA wikis have migrated (or plan to) this year (Inkipedia, Pikipedia, etc.). Regarding implementation: Creative Commons licenses are forward-compatible, which means that if you adapt a CC 3.0 work, you can license it under 4.0. For Nookipedia, this means that all existing content can and always will be considered to be a 3.0 work, but as new edits are made and articles become derivatives of themselves, they will be considered a 4.0 work. Regarding impact: This change has very little impact to the day-to-day experience of our editors and readers. Most impact would be seen by text re-use between Nookipedia and others. While Creative Commons versions are forward compatible, they are not backwards compatible. This means that 3.0 works can be used in a 4.0 work, but 4.0 works can't be used in a 3.0 work. By moving to 4.0, we will be better aligned with other wikis on 4.0, and can adapt both 3.0 and 4.0 text. Inversely, any wikis on 3.0 looking to re-use Nookipedia's 4.0 text won't be able to, but can also migrate to 4.0 if they wish. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 17:48, October 19, 2024 (EDT) | |
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| Result: (??%) | To be determined. |
Support ~
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