Editorial independence

The editorial team

w3c.wiki is operated by an independent editorial team. Bylines on entries appear as Editor [Name] or Editorial team. Entries are written to a vendor-neutral house style; no browser, framework, testing tool, or commercial product is privileged in body content.

Sponsor disclosure policy

A small number of entries may be marked as sponsored. When sponsored:

• A clear in-page banner identifies the sponsoring party at the top of the entry, before the article body.
• The sponsor has no editorial control. The editorial team retains the final word on title, framing, examples, and links.
• The sponsor relationship is also surfaced in the entry's machine-readable metadata (sponsorStatus: disclosed-sponsor).

No body content contains commercial calls to action ("scan your site", "try our product", "sign up for X"). Display advertising, where present, is served via an ethical, contextual ad network and never inline within article body content.

Analytics & tracking

Analytics are collected via a privacy-respecting, self-hosted Plausible instance. There is no Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, LinkedIn Insight Tag, or behavioural ad-network instrumentation on this site.

Transferability

w3c.wiki is built so that it can be handed to a new operator without rewrites. The seven transferability constraints are:

1. Independent registrar account for w3c.wiki.
2. Independent Cloudflare Pages account for the site.
3. Independent analytics on a dedicated host.
4. Independent email service provider with self-owned DKIM/DMARC.
5. Independent membership infrastructure in the editorial-entity name.
6. Vendored content engine: the build does not require any external monorepo workspace context.
7. Zero parent-organisation tokens in any emitted artefact: HTML, JSON-LD, sitemap, RSS, response headers, or DNS.

The asset transfer playbook lives in the repository under ops/runbooks/transferability.md and is exercised quarterly via a sandbox-account dry run.

UDRP fallback

Because w3c.wiki is a trademark-adjacent domain, a pre-built UDRP fallback architecture is in place. If a UDRP panel decision required relinquishing the domain, every URL would 301-redirect to a neutral fallback domain hosting a full mirror of the encyclopedia. The flip is gated by a single Workers KV key and DNS TTL is pinned to 300 seconds. The runbook lives in the repository under ops/runbooks/udrp-fallback.md.