Interwiki faction standard

An interwiki faction standard is the collective equivalent of an interwiki identity standard. It would allow for persistent association of identities, individuals and views over multiple large public wikis. So far it seems to be advocated only by people who are called "trolls" on some of these, and who often appear as new trolls on wikis that don't know of them. Presumably they would wish to retain a reputation of their own choice, that is, a faction, rather than always being assigned one by the cliques on the new wiki where they arrive. It is unclear if this is a good thing, so there is no advocacy of such a standard at present among any non-troll/political faction.

factional advocacy

Trolls

This section approved by Trolls.

As wikis begin to implement factions, it will make it difficult for factions to co-operate cross-wiki. To ease this co-operation, the interwiki faction standard is proposed.

It would built on and complement the proposed interwiki identity standard for self-declared individual identity. It is likely that individuals would belong to different factions on different large public wikis, they having different purposes and different critical distinctions. However, the mechanisms and control verbs by which one is asserted to be in a faction, accepts or denies that assertion, joins other factions, or is relegated to the default vandals faction that one ends up in if no faction (not even the trolls) will accredit one's edit as being of any use.

Once implemented, the OurAnswer:reds could make a decision to be the same as the Recyclopedia:reds, etc., to set default faction membership as faction members or new trolls (those who are asserted to have, but do not themselves claim to have, a particular bias) arrive. This would be up to the factions not the sysop power structure on each such wiki, resulting in less sysopism hopefully.