Policies/en/Adaptation-Conventions

💡 In simple words: WikiDeal uses good texts from other places that let people share and change them. We copy these texts but always say who wrote them first and keep the same sharing rules. This page explains how we do that.

🎯 In 20 seconds (scientific summary): We are heading towards systematized reuse of externally licensed content through rigorous attribution protocols and transparent adaptation conventions. This approach suggests potential scalability across policies, educational materials, and documentation while maintaining license compliance and community governance integrity.

This is a draft version. This page describes the conventions used to reference and adapt externally licensed content on WikiDeal. Status: proposal, to be adopted. See the detailed disclaimer.

In simple words: many good texts already exist under free licenses that allow anyone to reuse and adapt them, as long as clear credit is given and the result stays under the same kind of license. Instead of rewriting everything from zero, WikiDeal can build on such texts. This page explains the general principle, and the precise word-by-word conventions used when adapting the policies.

Adaptation conventions

General principle

WikiDeal can reference and adapt content published under a Creative Commons license that permits adaptation, such as CC BY-SA 4.0, provided that the attribution requirements of the license are rigorously respected: credit to the source, link to the license, link to the original material, indication that changes were made, and republication under the same license. The full attribution practice is described in the detailed disclaimer.

Conventions for the policies

The WikiDeal policies are adapted notably from the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki. The text stays as close as possible to the source; the following mapping is applied:

Source term	WikiDeal adaptation
Wikipedia (the project)	WikiDeal
Wikimedia / Wikimedia Foundation (the organization)	Ynternet.org Foundation
the projects	the Marketplaces
the Sites / Wikimedia Sites	the WikiDeal Markets and Portals (collectively, "the Platform")
Wikimedia movement / community	the WikiDeal community
affiliates / chapters	user groups, partner organizations
dedicated email addresses (legal@, emergency@, etc.)	info@wikideal.net
the encyclopedic vision	the slogan "Fair deals with nice people" and the founding question "Can users own, run and sustain a global marketplace?"
"(adopted [year])"	"(proposal, to be adopted)"
encyclopedic, informational use	legitimate contractual use, documentation of disputes, contract templates, communication text templates (for example alerts)
community roles (stewards, functionaries, Ombuds, etc.)	same names for now, to evolve with the steering committee
community governance mechanisms	mediation first, then arbitration (internal justice, Justice portal)

Terms without a WikiDeal equivalent are neutralized or flagged, never reinvented. Every adapted policy has the status: proposal, to be adopted.

Other possible domains

The same approach could apply beyond the policies. Possible examples include funding documentation, tutorials and other educational material published under free licenses. These are possibilities, not decisions: any such reuse would follow the same principle, rigorous attribution and adaptation conventions made explicit on a page like this one.