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This article describes the governance of this wiki.
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= History =
 
== Current state ==
 
Currently (March 2013), the wiki is effectively without government. There is a set of five [https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop users with admin] rights:
 
 
 
* [[User:Genjix]]
 
* [[User:Kiba]]
 
* [[User:MagicalTux]]
 
* [[User:Nanotube]]
 
* [[User:Sgornick]]
 
 
 
However, none of them has shown any recent interest in applying their power in any sort of governance.
 
 
 
MagicalTux is the only [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Sysops_and_permissions#Bureaucrats beaurocrat], and nobody else is capable of appointing new admins.
 
 
 
[[user:ripper234]] [https://bitcoinfoundation.org/forum/index.php?/topic/51-could-should-the-foundation-manage-the-bitcoinit-wiki/#entry594 was chosen] by the Bitcoin Foundation (with MagicalTux in its board) to join sgornic as lead wiki admin.
 
 
 
== Future ==
 
* More admins are needed to make effective progress in governing the wiki.
 
* A core set of rules are needed. Admins will enforce these rules.
 
 
 
= Proposed Core Rules =
 
 
 
The rules below are only '''proposed''' at this point, some sort of discussion will take place before they are formalized.
 
They do not replace [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Etiquette standard wiki etiquette], but are rather in place to be used where the etiquette fails.
 
 
 
# Discussions that are not utter rubbish (spam/gibrish) should never be deleted or reverted. [https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ATonal_Bitcoin&diff=11554&oldid=11522 Example of rule violation].
 
# Edits should respect [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view NPOV].
 
## In case of dispute, citations should be brought in to support a POV.
 
## Citations should be "convincing". Quoting a few opinions and prefixing an opinion with "some claim that" is not cause to violate NPOV.
 
# No [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring edit wars] are allowed.
 
 
 
= Transgression =
 
The rules above will only be enforced starting from a particular future date - past "transgressions" are of course not punishable.
 
Admins will not be trigger-happy, and any punshiment for breaking the rules can (to some degree) be appealed (recommended medium is posting to bitcointalk).
 
 
 
However, rules without a bite are meaningless, and so appropriate measures will be used to enforce this set of rules.
 
The measures include warnings, locking articles, temporary bans, and ultimately might include permanent bans.
 
 
 
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