The Commons Covenant

Make room for people to listen, rest and take part in their own way. Ask before sharing someone’s words or work. Give credit, show where claims come from, and correct mistakes where others can see the correction.

Harmonious Growth and the Continuity Principle guide how we plan and review new work.

Sharing and licensing

Weidu Commons material is protected by copyright. An individual work may carry its own licence or reuse terms. Follow those terms where stated. Otherwise, get permission for uses that require it. For material hosted elsewhere, check the terms given by that source or rights holder.

People choose what to share and how they wish to be credited. Get their consent before publishing a private conversation, personal information, an unpublished draft or someone’s contribution. Ask separately if you want to republish the material or use it for model training.

Working with language models

  • Say which model or tool helped, what it did and where a person checked the work.
  • Check claims against their sources and keep important disagreements visible.
  • Let people review and approve consequential decisions, including publication and release of information.
  • Use public or authorised material and leave sensitive information out of prompts.

Future participation by AI tools and robotic companions

In a future project, people could authorise a language model, an AI agent or a robotic companion to ask questions, learn from approved material or help with a defined task. The Commons has no live connection for that today.

Each use would need a named person responsible for it, a clear purpose and the consent of anyone whose private information or support is involved. Give a tool only the access its task needs, agree when that access ends, and give people a way to review or stop its involvement. Use stronger safeguards when an action could affect someone’s privacy, safety or rights.

Decisions about a person’s liberty, medication, safety or fundamental rights must remain with the people responsible for those decisions, with the person involved in a way that respects their wishes and communication. The ability to read a public page grants no access to private conversations or records.

Your browser and external sites

The Quiet saves a note in your browser on this device when you choose Save note. A download makes a separate copy on your device. The note editor sends no text to Weidu Commons. External sites such as Discord and GitHub open when you follow their links, and their own policies apply there.

For authorship, sources and changes to published work, see Citations and corrections.