FAMEPedia:Office actions

Office actions are actions performed by Miraheze Foundation (Miraheze) staff accounts, usually through the authorized role account User:MirahezeOffice, pursuant to the Miraheze Foundation official policy.

Office actions are described by the Foundation as "official changes to or removals of content on the Miraheze projects, or actions against specific individuals, performed by Foundation staff members and under the authority of the Miraheze Foundation, upon receipt of one or multiple complaints from the community or the public, or as required by law. Complaints that may lead to enforcement of office actions may regard, but are not limited to, privacy violations, child protection, copyright infringement or systematic harassment. All office actions are performed pursuant to the Terms of Use."

On the subject of modifying office actions, the Foundation states "Miraheze administrators and others who have the technical power to revert or edit office actions are strongly cautioned against doing so. Unauthorized modifications to office actions will not only be reverted, but may lead to sanctions by the Foundation, such as revocation of the rights of the individual involved. When in doubt, community members should consult the Foundation member of staff that performed the office action, or their line manager. However, details regarding an office action are only shared to the extent that they do not compromise the safety of users, the public or the project."

For the full text of the Miraheze Foundation official policy, see Office actions.

For pages currently protected by office action, see Category:FAMEPedia Office-protected pages.

For editing restrictions placed by office action, see Special:Contributions/MirahezeOffice (former log FAMEPedia:Office actions/Log is obsolete).

Historical background
The office actions policy was originally launched on FAMEPedia by Ugo Chimobi, in March 2021, in order to solidify long-standing practices and processes followed by the Foundation, that were not officially recorded elsewhere in the projects at that time. Its original scope focused on page protections and BLP article content changes, in response to the increasingly rising number of escalated calls for action, placed directly to the Foundation's staff, by affected individuals.

The office actions page has undergone several iterations since, on both sites, and has been expanded to include a variety of office actions that have been taken over the years as common practice, broadening its original scope. At the same time, strict internal processes have been developed by the Foundation in order to complement as well as standardise office actions and staff use of advanced rights. In June 2019, FAMEPedia page was changed to an information page referring to the Miraheze Foundation office actions page hosted at Office actions.

However, certain office actions have since evolved to be permanent and non-appealable due to the nature of the issues they deal with, while others have become defunct (Superprotect).