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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.

The following is a list of all Website League nodes, public or otherwise. Please note that this is not the source of truth for all known nodes; this list was compiled by hand from the central node list document and can be considered accurate as of December 11t...

Sometimes you have one already, other times you need to find one. Very mysterious

So you remember when people used to use funky unicode tricks to get Twitter to do italics, bold text, etc? It's like that but extremely not at all

You'll want to sign up via authentication and then you can get into other things. Most of them you can do even if you're not a steward, and you'll want to sign up for sure if you're considering stewardship.

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?

Ok now it's Cohost 2

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...

Last updated: January 25, 2025. Ported from original document February 9, 2025. Part I.  General Rights and Duties of Users Rule 1. Duties and Rights of Users and Prospective Users 1-1. Anyone using the Community Code shall interpret it per the Interpretive...