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https://consensus.websiteleague.org/ Consensus is our consensus-finding and decision-making system. This is an instance of Loomio, a consensus management application designed for organizations like ours. We use it for taking polls of the Stewards to get a sen...

https://coordination.websiteleague.org/ Coordination is our development, operations, and governance chat. It is an instance of Zulip, a hybrid software that has Discord-style chat, organized into forum-style threads. The tools it provides us help keep convers...

We do have a Discord server; however, we have wound this down for official use, because the work we need to do outgrew Discord's very limited organizational tools. All information and official League chat is on Coordination, which anyone is allowed to join and...

You are currently on Information, our wiki which has been recently reorganized; this is where folks can go to learn about how the League works, how to set up and run a node, and how we govern the organization.

https://planning.websiteleague.org Planning is our kanban board and task tracking system. It is a Vikunja instance. This is where we keep track of what we've done, what we're doing, and what we're going to do.

Muffinlord please stop suggesting we solve all disputes via "the cage"

Posting machine broke? 

If you unfollow/block someone and it doesn't seem to take immediately, restart the service; it's faster than waiting for it to kick in on its own.

Who amongst us hasn't broken notifications between two instances, really?

Seering et al. propose there are three simultaneous processes which define moderation and its relation to online communities. These are: (1) Over the course of weeks or months, new moderators are chosen, learn through daily interactions, and develop a modera...

Top-down Top-down (or centralized) approaches to moderation are predominant at the platform level and include "individual-level sanctions (such as removing content posted by users and banning users), community-level sanctions (in which entire communities are...

The moderation process itself Moderation often serves to reinforce existing personal (power upheld within relationships), community (power developed within cultural contexts and upheld by groups), and systemic (power upheld by social institutions) power struc...

Cultural norms Content warnings are of debatable effectiveness and, when poorly implemented, can be more harmful than not. They are most valuable in a broader, trauma-informed approach. [Scott et al. 2023] Actions before the moderation process A moderation ...

Sarah Gilbert. 2023. Towards Intersectional Moderation: An Alternative Model of Moderation Built on Care and Power. Shagun Jhaver, Sucheta Ghoshal, Amy Bruckman, and Eric Gilbert. 2018. Online Harassment and Content Moderation: The Case of Blocklists. https:/...

https://gitlab.com/website-league Our GitLab is where we keep patches to bring the software we use into compliance with our standards.

Ported from the original document on Dec. 13, 2024. Last updated: 2024-12-13 Rationale To facilitate collaboration between Stewards, as well as to ensure all users have visibility into the workings of the Website League, the League operates a set of central...

NOTICE: The most updated version of this document, unless otherwise stated, will always be found on our website. Last updated: January 25, 2025. Ported from original document February 9, 2025. Part I.  General Rights and Duties of Users Rule 1. Duties and R...

NOTICE: The most updated version of this document, unless otherwise stated, will always be found on our website. Last updated: January 25, 2025. Ported (from original) February 9, 2025. Part I. Definitions 1. Short Names for Website League Documents 1-1. T...

Ported from the original document on Feb. 9, 2025. Our Pledge We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, eth...

The Website League runs on a lot of different software, mostly adopted from the existing Fediverse and ActivityPub ecosystems. Where to Contribute The primary repository for all of the projects we've adopted is hosted on gitlab: https://gitlab.com/website-l...