Board Thread:Announcements/@comment-24325645-20180424161101



Recently the administrative team of MicroWiki has been on hiatus as we've been working on real-life issues and events in our lives. In our absence from this online encyclopedia, we have conversed once on returning to clean up MicroWiki to maintain its standards as an encyclopedia like Wikipedia in format, content, and style. As of today I have returned and noticed we have many new contributors to MicroWiki. I welcome you all to this encyclopedia and thank you for choosing us. Now without furtherado, let us begin with the state of this wiki.

Policy Abuse

Contributors (user accounts that sign up and make their first edit to MicroWiki) are greeted with an automated message welcoming them and informing them of our encyclopedia's policies. These policies, which form the backbone of our wiki to ensure its quality remains in high standards, have been repeatedly abused recently—from outright vandalism to personal attacks. I would like to remind contributors who have been here since 2012 and earlier, including new ones, that we at MicroWiki take our policies seriously and there will be consequences for every violation committed to our policies. In addition to vandalism and personal attacks, Microwiki's administration will be deleting articles where possible if they violate our content policy. MicroWiki is a nation about micronations, and micronations by definition are: "a political entity that intends to replace, resemble, mock, or exist on equal footing with a recognised and/or sovereign state."

More information determing what is and isn't a micronation according to the encyclopedia and other sources is provided here from the article:

Micronations generally have a number of common features:

1. Micronations may have a form and structure similar to established sovereign states, including territorial claims, government institutions, official symbols and citizens, albeit on a much smaller scale.

2. Micronations are often quite small, in both their claimed territory and claimed populations — although there are some exceptions to this rule, with different micronations having different methods of citizenship.

3. Micronations may issue formal instruments such as postage stamps, coins, banknotes and passports, and confer honours and titles of nobility.

A criterion which distinguishes micronations from imaginary countries, eco-villages, campuses, tribes, clans, sects, and residential community associations, is that these latter entities do not usually seek to be recognised as sovereign.

''The Montevideo Convention was one attempt to create a legal definition distinguishing between states and non-states. Some micronations meet this definition, while some do not. The academic study of micronations and microstates is termed 'micropatrology', and the hobby or activity of establishing and operating micronations is known as micronationalism.''

As per former consensuses taking place on MicroWiki, cybernations are not considered micronations. Articles of pure fantasy, dubious content, or solely online such as in minecraft are surely not micronations. I recommend all cybernation article contributors to move their content to wikis solely based on cybernations.

Cleanups

Browsing throughout MicroWiki one can find many articles that have not reached the criteria of encyclopediac material. Because of this, I will be working to improve articles where possible, and if there is no other option than deleting the article or pasting it in a sandbox for contributors to work on in the meanwhile, it shall be deleted from the wiki. I am not doing this out of being rude or demeaning, rather, because again MicroWiki, according to its article, "is a free online encyclopedia seeking to catalogue and document every aspect of the micronational phenomenon. Originally established in 2005, the project aims to establish an English micronational equivalent to the well-known and extremely popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, using the same familiar content creation and maintenance tools. Like Wikipedia, MicroWiki's content is completely free and available to the general public for fair use. MicroWiki is an open encyclopedia that any user can edit. The website does not attempt to copy or replace WikiProject Micronations at Wikipedia, but rather to develop a wiki that is able to deal with specific micronational subject matters in greater detail than Wikipedia can under its current policy content."

Discussions in the MicroWiki forums will be relocated to their proper categories and if diplomatic requests are found they shall be removed. MicroWiki is not a diplomatic forum, and if one wishes to do so they may request diplomacy by contacting the contributor via their own website, blog, or social media presence.

If you as a contributor would like to assist in helping this wiki get back on it's feet and grow in encyclopediac material and professionalism, please do not hesitate to contact me on my message wall or within this discussion and I'll be with you as soon as possible. 