Recap Time Squad Wiki:Policy

The Recap time Squad Wiki is the official hub for everything about Recap Time, its squad members, the community and the projects we maintain. Even through this wiki is considered as official by us, we allow anyone with an Miraheze account to contribute (to respect your IP address privacy and avoid spam from unregistered users, though most pages are editable while logged out if you will). In order to achieve this, we require our contributors to follow a set of policies and guidelines documented here.

While its heavily based on Hermitcraft Wiki's policies, we also modified it to fit our needs. Policy improvements should be discussed in the talk page first before one can codify it here.


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General rules
Please do:
 * Be considerate towards others and assume good faith.
 * Keep information accurate, truthful, and relevant to Recap Time.
 * Follow our Manual of Style and our Community Code of Conduct, and the greater Fandom Community Guidelines and Terms of service

Please do NOT:
 * Harass others or use discriminatory or offensive language, which includes swearing.
 * Advertise your own content or spam links.
 * Plagiarize content without a citation.
 * Ask or pretend to be a squad member of Recap Time.
 * Reveal someone' personal information without their permission.
 * Spam or create posts and/or comments that are unrelated to Recap Time.

Backseat Moderation
Backseat Moderation is enforcing the rules despite not being a moderator. If you know what you are doing, backseat moderation is OK, and may land you a position in our staff. If you do not know what you are doing, backseat moderation is not OK, and may land you a block. If you are not an admin (bureaucrat if you're warning an admin about the admin rules), follow the language guide below in order not to claim authority over the user.

Language Guide

 * Bad Language: "... or you will be blocked."
 * Good language: "... or an admin will block you."

Feedback
If you have any questions or suggestions for our policies and guidelines, feel free to contact a wiki administrator or an squad member with bureaucrat prvilleges.

Even if you're not a wiki staff member, please read this. The rules in this tab are conduct guidelines for wiki staff members. Recap Time Squad members has a separate and expandsive documentation on the handbook besides the wiki staff mini handbook.
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Application
You can view the application form on the staff page.

Requirements

 * Being verified on our Discord server or public Guilded.gg server via regular processes on Verification Endpoint API.
 * Wiki contributions on other communities, including outside Fandom-hosted wikis.
 * Clear of any violations against our Community Code of Conduct (aka no active strikes)

Optional, but recommended

 * Any open-source contributions, not necessarily on our GitLab projects.
 * Experience in wiki administration and content moderation (bonus points if you ever run an MediaWiki-based website on your own with shell access), at least a year

Using Rollback
Rollback undoes an edit in one click. Rollback should only be used to revert vandalism (it hides the version undone). Otherwise, just undo the edit. Normal users should use undo whether they are reverting vandalism or not. When you use the rollback edit, alert an admin so the vandal can be appropriately punished. Failure do do so may mean the loss of your privilege.

Enforcement
Unless the user is acting in bad faith (e.g. vandalism, harassment, spamming), issue a warning on their first offence. Indefinite blocks should NEVER be given on one's first offence, even if the offence is in bad faith (e.g. vandalism, harassment, spamming). Indefinite blocks can be removed after 5 years if the user behaves well on other wikis.

When a user is blocked, it should be for a specific reason (e.g. "adding nonsense to a page"), not for something vague like "being disrespectful". The more specific, the better.

There are plenty of warning templates here.

Other Languages
If a user speaks a different language, it is preferred that you communicate with the user in their preferred language if they request it. The user can speak whatever language they want in personal communication, but otherwise, they are required to speak English.

This list is non-exhaustive, and editors of all levels should use their judgement and common sense when editing articles and templates. The MoA section provides a fraction of how you contribute in the wiki.
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 * Files uploaded through the wiki should be given a relevant name. If you do not know how to name a file, see this blog article in FANDOM Community Central.
 * Use Arabic numerals when writing numbers, not Roman numerals.
 * Use the subject's local "dialect" in an article (e.g. American English on an article of and American Hermit or any build they made and organization or event they started). Otherwise, there is no preference for a specific dialect of English. If you are unsure how one dialect spells a word, consult English Wikipedia Manual of Style on grammar spelling.
 * However, use language intelligible to all varieties wherever it is possible.
 * When quoting, use their preferred national variety of English whether it is the article's variety or not. Do not reformat quotes to be grammatically correct. However, one may leave footnotes on grammatical mistakes explaining how they are incorrect only if they are universally considered mistakes.
 * For writing dates, use the UTC time zone.
 * Use the straight apostrophe ( ' ) and quotation marks ( " ), not the curly ones ( ‘ ’ “ ” ).
 * Americans would read "10/3/20" as "October 3, 2020" while the British and Canadians would read it as "10 March 2020". To avoid confusion, simply write out the dates so people know by the written out month.
 * Do not use the ampersand (&). Instead, spell out and.

Protection is when only Content Moderators and and above are allowed to edit a page. Semi-protection prevents accounts less than 4 days old from editing a page. Move protection only prevents a page from being renamed. Only Content Moderators and up can protect pages. Pages may be protected temporarily to stop an edit war or to prevent frequent vandalism.
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Pages That Should Be Protected
By default, pages should be both edit and move protected include:
 * The Main Page
 * The profiles of Content Moderators and above. The profile's owner can unprotect their profile if they desire.
 * Policy Pages, excluding the squad handbook pages.

Pages That Should Be Semi-Protected
Semi-protection not only prevents new users who do not know the Manual of Style from damaging the wiki. It also directs them to more obscure pages where help is more needed.
 * High-visibility pages
 * Squad handbook pages
 * Project pages
 * High-use templates


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Appealing

 * If you are blocked and would like to appeal it, do so on an admin's Community Central, not on another Wiki the admin works on. If you harass the admins on other Wikis, your block will be extended.
 * If you were blocked on another wiki, do not follow the admin or anyone associated with them here to complain.
 * If you believe the admin who blocked you was acting in bad faith, talk to another admin who is not affiliated with the blocking admin about it (preferably one with a higher rank). The blocking admin, fearing the exposure of their bad faith, will probably take further disciplinary action to prevent themself from being disciplined.

Sockpuppetry

 * Sockpuppets, or unapproved second accounts, are NEVER acceptable. If you want to create a second account, ask a staff member for permission; then they will consider it. Sockpuppets will be blocked indefinitely.
 * If a sockpuppet is being used to evade a ban, the block on your original account will be extended.

Botting
We also maintain community lounges for everything related to the wiki in different places, bridged through Matrix. They're documented in their own subpages with the Community page. While FANDOM doesn't have off-platform policy in their ToS, our Community Code of Conduct still applies in these places.
 * Unapproved bot accounts will be blocked indefinitely when discovered to cause harm to the wiki. In case an approved bot is broken in the wild, contact wiki staff for a temporary block.
 * If you would like to use a bot, ask a staff member for permission so we can contact FANDOM Support to flag that bot behind the scenes.
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Chatrooms

 * Matrix
 * Discord
 * Guilded.gg - Bot API still in the works so no Matrix bridge yet
 * Telegram

Forums

 * Reddit