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To help contributors make a difference in how pages and articles are laid out and have their voice heard about maintaining, changing and creating policies, the Mass Effect Wiki employ two Forums for contributors to take part in shaping the wiki policies and guidelines.

Any contributor can post a proposal for in either the Policy Forum when proposing a change, addition, or removal of current active policy, or the Projects Forum when proposing a change.

Policy Edit

Main article: Forum:Policy

The Policy Forum is the place where contributors can propose addition, revision, or removal of a current active policy.

The policy forum is made out of five parts:

1. Voting notice with a fixed expiration date on participation in voting. When creating the post the author must define the deadline for voting, which is exactly seven (7) days from the posting, in which time a deliberation will take place.
2. A summary of the proposal with relevant links or files listed. Authors are not obligated to supply any information when creating the post, but encouraged to do so as it helps other editors understand the proposal and give accurate voting.
3. More Information section for more in-depth description of the proposal. Authors are encouraged to to be clear of what they are trying to achieve while supplying as much information as they can, otherwise editors viewing the proposal might not understand what the proposal is for and in most cases, will vote in neutrality or against the proposal to avoid unclear alteration that could harm the wiki.
4. The Voting section contain three (3) subsection which are Support, Neutral, and Oppose. When voting, editors will sign (using four tildes ~~~~) in one of those sections.
5. Discussion section for comments and question about the proposal. While the voting is taking place, some contributors will ask followup question and inquire on specifics in the proposals, authors are encouraged to participate and give as much information as possible.

Projects Edit

Main article: Forum:Projects

The Projects Forum is where contributors can discuss, propose addition or change to pages. Those proposal are different then the wiki management discussions taking place on talk pages and deal with major decision that affect the way articles are laid out and what information they contain. Those discussions and proposals also effect the Manual of Style.

The projects forum is made out of three parts:

1. A summary of the proposal with relevant links or files listed. Authors are not obligated to supply any information when creating the post, but encouraged to do so as it helps other editors understand the proposal and comment accordingly. Also a link for a working example of the proposed changes will stir the comments to a solution.
2. More Information section for more in-depth description of the proposal. Authors are encouraged to to be clear of what they are trying to achieve while supplying as much information as they can, otherwise editors viewing the proposal might not understand what the proposal meant to achieve.
3. Discussion section for comments and question about the proposal. Some contributors will ask followup question and inquire on specifics in the proposals, authors are encouraged to participate and give as much information as possible.

The deliberations on the proposal take seven (7) days. If the proposal passes, the article(s) will be change accordingly.