Policies/en/Office-Actions-Policy/Procedures

This is a draft version. Source: adapted notably from the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki, https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Office_actions/procedures (CC BY-SA 4.0), with changes. Status: proposal, to be adopted. See the detailed disclaimer.

In simple words: this page shows, step by step, who would check what before an office action is taken. No single person could decide alone: each action would go through several levels of review. The tables below list the baseline steps for each type of action.

Office actions procedures

In order for an office action to be considered and enforced, the following baseline steps would be involved, as relevant to the requested office action. This list is not exhaustive; steps listed here may be expanded to include more steps or removed entirely depending on the type of office action requested. This baseline list of steps is published in the spirit of transparency.

The review roles named below (team member, manager, director, department chief, communications, legal, executive direction) are those of the source organization. They are kept as an indicative review chain: at adoption, they would be mapped to the actual structure of the Ynternet.org Foundation and of the future WikiDeal governance bodies. All requests would be received through info@wikideal.net and routed internally.

Primary and secondary actions

		Foundation global ban	Foundation event ban	Copyright takedown compliance	Child protection	Conduct warning
1	Request office action from the Foundation.	info@wikideal.net	info@wikideal.net	info@wikideal.net	info@wikideal.net	No
2	Request acknowledgement.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
3	Request evaluation by relevant team member and suggestion of a course of action.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
4	Review by the member's team and manager.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
5	Review by the team's director or lead manager.	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
6	Review by the department's chief.	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
7	Review by the legal function.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
8	Review by the communications function.	Yes	Yes	No	No	Maybe
9	Review by the executive direction.	Yes	Yes	No	No	Maybe
10	Enforcement of the office action and notice to the affected individual.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
11	Notice to other affected parties.	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
12	Dissemination of information relevant to the office action to specific groups.	Maybe	Yes	No	No	Yes
13	Appeal option	Yes	Maybe	Yes	No	Maybe

Actions involving advanced rights

		Interaction ban	CheckUser	Page protection	Advanced rights removal	Range blocks
1	Request office action from the Foundation.	No	No	No	No	No
2	Request acknowledgement.	No	No	No	No	No
3	Request evaluation by relevant team member and suggestion of a course of action.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
4	Review by the member's team and manager.	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
5	Review by the team's director or lead manager.	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
6	Review by the department's chief.	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
7	Review by the legal function.	No	No	No	Yes	No
8	Review by the communications function.	Maybe	No	No	No	No
9	Review by the executive direction.	Maybe	No	No	No	No
10	Enforcement of the office action and notice to the affected individual.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
11	Notice to other affected parties.	Yes	No	No	No	No
12	Dissemination of information relevant to the office action to specific groups.	No	No	No	Yes	No
13	Appeal option	Maybe	No	Yes	Yes	Yes

Certain steps of the aforementioned process may be omitted and others may be added, subject to each specific office action and the relevant policy that prescribes it.

See also

• Office actions policy
• All policies