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# Documenting actual good practices and seeking consensus that the documentation truly reflects them.

# Proposing a change in practice and seeking consensus for implementation of that change.

# Declarations from the [[Akvo:Managing Director | the Akvo Foundation ]] Managing DIrector]], [[Akvo:Board of Trustees|the Akvo Foundation Board]], or [[Akvo:Developers|the Akvo Developers]], particularly for copyright, legal issues, or server load.

=== Policies ===

Akvopedia policies:

* [[Akvopedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License|GNU Free Documentation License]] - This is the copyright notice regarding the material available on this site. Please see also the [[Akvopedia:Copyrights]] guideline about how this policy in practice is implemented.*[[Akvopedia:Privacy_policy| Akvopedia Privacy policy]]- This policy has a higher priority than general policies

=== Guidelines===

'''[[Akvopedia:Guidelines | Guidelines]]''' are more advisory than policies. Updates to a guideline are typically discussed on its talk page, but it is acceptable to directly edit a guideline. Disputes over wording are often resolved by discussion and compromise toward developing a consensus.  A '''[[Akvopedia:Naming conventions|naming convention]]''' or '''[[Akvopedia:Style guidelines|Style guidelines]]''' is a specific kind of guideline, related to proper naming, or the way articles should be written.

A '''general guideline''' is that the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies Wikipedia policies] serve as guidelines for the Akvopedia unless they have specifically been superseded by guidelines or policies in this document. The reason for doing this is that the Wikipedia policy set is so large and comprehensive that it covers nearly every aspect of a wiki, however, as they are changing outside of our control we can't refer to them as policy. But they are a good guideline where there is no specific Akvopedia policy.

List A '''[[Akvopedia:Naming conventions|naming convention]]''' or '''[[Akvopedia:Style guidelines|Style guidelines]]''' is a specific kind of guidelines:guideline, related to proper naming, or the way articles should be written

=== Akvopedia guidelines ===

* [[Akvopedia:Copyrights]] is a guideline on how we implement the copyright license.

* [[Akvopedia:Naming conventions | Naming conventions]]

* [[Akvopedia:Style guidelines | Style guidlines]]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies Wikipedia policies] as general Akvopedia guidelines

==How are policies enforced? ==

'''''You''''' are an [[Akvopedia:About |Akvopedia]] editor. Since Akvopedia has no editor-in-chief or top-down article approval mechanism, active participants make copyedits and corrections to the format and content problems they see. So the participants are both writers ''and'' editors.

Some features of the software which could potentially be misused, such as deleting pages and locking pages from editing, are restricted to administrators, who are experienced and trusted members of the community.

 

 

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