skyHow:Policy

Note: This is a draft

This is a policy on what is and is not allowed on skyHow.

What belong here?

How-to articles

How-to content belong on skyHow, as long as it follows the SkyWiki's content policy. This includes, not limited to:

• Respecting the U.S. law
• Pornography or sexual content are prohibited
• Commercial activity not allowed

Quizzes

Like wikiHow, quizzes belong on skyHow, as long as it follows the SkyWiki's content policy.

• Unlike wikiHow, which quizzes on that wiki are protected from editing to administrators only, quizzes here can be edited freely.

Copyright

Do not copy content from copyrighted websites without permission.

Although skyHow is similar to wikiHow in scope, again, please do not copy content from wikiHow without permission. The wikiHow's User Content License Grants states:

This license does not grant other Users the right to reproduce, distribute, adapt, or otherwise use the User Content outside of the [wikiHow] Service unless given explicit written permission by wikiHow or the User who created the specific content.

It is OK to copy content from other sites, as long as it is public domain or licensed under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA. For the latter two, you need to attribute the users and provide the link back to the original page.

We want skyHow to redistribute the contents for both personal and commercial usage, so it's not allowed to copy content from websites that prohibits reuse commercially outside these websites.

Naming

For how-to articles, the title of a page should contain a verb at the start. "How to" is added automatically at the start and doesn't need to be included at start of title.

For quizzes, the title of a page should end with "Quiz".

Blocking policy

Administrators should block users and IP addresses who engages in vandalism, spam, disruptive editing, personal attacks, or abuse of multiple accounts (sockpuppetry). They should block users who are found to be underage (i.e. under 13 years old) for the duration until the users reach 13 years old.

For user(s) and/or IP address(es) engaging in vandalism, spam, disruptive editing or personal attacks, administrators should send a warning to the affected user(s) and/or IP address(es).

Users who are abusing multiple accounts may be indefinitely blocked by administrators. Any trustworthy user can request a CheckUser request on Steward requests on SkyMeta. Stewards will look at the IP address(es) involved in multiple account abuse and should be blocked.

Adminstrators should not block IP address indefinitely; these (who are disruptive) should be blocked for a maximum of 6 months, unless it is an open proxy, which should be blocked for up to 3 years.