Changes

An "affiliate" relationship is appopriate appropriate when a canonically Orthodox group of persons sharing OrthodoxWiki's vision desires to expand OrthodoxWiki's project into other lanaguageslanguages. We are very happy when to have other Orthodox-based wikis formally join OrthodoxWiki as full affiliates.

It is the responsibility of the affiliate(s) to actively maintain and manage the localized OrthodoxWiki in conformity with OrthodoxWiki's major guidelines, especially its [[OrthodoxWiki:Copyrights|copyright policy]] (for legal reasons) and OrthodoxWiki's [[OrthodoxWiki:Style_Manual#Neutrality_and_the_OrthodoxWiki_Bias|principle of neutrality]]. They will also be responsbile responsible for translating core OrthodoxWiki texts from English into the other language.

OrthodoxWiki affiliates are permitted and required to adopt the official OrthodoxWiki logo, although they may translate it into the other language if they like. Likewise, they should make use of the OrthodoxWiki favicon and search plugin icon, allow they may adapt these as they wish (for example, changing them to a different color to differentiate between lanaguage language versions of OrthodoxWiki in the search box or for bookmarks).

We will provide a localized subdomain (such as ru.orthodoxwiki.org, gr.orthodoxwiki.org, bu.orthodoxwiki.org, etc.). This can be pointed to anoher another IP address to be hosted locally, or we may provide space on the server that hosts OrthodoxWiki (a server belonging to [http://www.OrthodoxInternet.com Orthodox Internet Services]). In some cases, a domain name more appropriate to the language in question may also be parked upon the subdomain.

For practical reasons, it is important that localized OrthodoxWikis maintain the same copyright/licensing arrangement as the English-lanaguge language OrthodoxWiki.

A "colleague" relationship is especially appropriate where the focus of another wiki (e.g. their interpretation of [[NPOV|N.P.O.V.]] and "mainstream Chalcedonian Orthodox bias") differs from OrthodoxWikisOrthodoxWiki's. We expect this would be the case, for example, if an Old Calendarist Greek group wanted to create their own wiki, or for Coptic/non-Chalcedonians or Roman (or other) Catholic wikis, or if another Eastern Orthodox group wanted to start a wiki with a substaintially substantially different focus or mission. In some cases, we may recognize other wikis as "colleagues" even if they do not call themselves Christian.

The word "colleagecolleague" assumes that we have a sense of common mission or complementarity, and are happy to work together and support each others work.

This is a list of OrthodoxWiki core Documents which must be translated (in abbrevated abbreviated form, if necessary) and maintained consistently across localizations. The English-language text will remain the "canonical" text.

* Greek-langauge language OrthodoxWiki - [[:el:Αρχική_σελίδα]]