Wikifederalism

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Wikifederalism is the principle that each wiki under the Miraheze umbrella should have autonomy to govern itself, and that a decision made on a local wiki should be overridden by a global decision only when necessary to protect other wikis. For example, community consensus on a wiki to allow images to remain posted on the wiki in violation of copyright laws would be subject to being overruled by a global decision, because it could result in legal liability for Miraheze. Or a use of switch statements in templates on a local wiki that uses a large amount of server resources might also be prohibited by global decision as a waste of Miraheze resources.

The opposite of wikifederalism is anti-wikifederalism, a broad term referring to all ideologies that oppose weak central control over Miraheze wikis. This encompasses not only the idea that there should be strong central control over all Miraheze wikis, but the opposite idea, viz. that each wiki should be completely independent and that there should be no central control at all. This is sometimes advocated by wikisecessionists. Thus, wikifederalism favors moderate decentralization.