The Offetstine Wiki is a primary source. This is opposed to most reference wikis, which are tertiary sources (see also Wikipedia's policy on the same topic) and thus require reputable citations for all novel claims. Many wikis serve as a centralized aggregate of established information, and do not reserve the right to establish their own claims. The Offetstine Wiki, by contrast, is a repository for consensus on worldbuilding affairs in Offetstine.
Rationale
Unlike sources which document existing works of fiction and may defer only to concepts put forth by the respective authors (a common paradigm seen in, for instance, Fandom.com), Offetstine Wiki represents a living document used to help organize the ideas proposed by worldbuilders and roleplayers in Offetstine. As ideas are proposed and realized in real time, it is often difficult to judge the value of codifying a proposal upfront. Despite this, the Offetstine Wiki ethos maintains that rigor and clarity are invaluable resources in sound worldbuilding.
To this extent, novel ideas may be proposed directly on the wiki, rather than hashed out in detail between characters or roleplayers first. As usual, contributors accept that their writing shall be scrutinized and edited mercilessly when they submit to Offetstine Wiki, which allows reputability to be established through rigorous peer review rather than citations. This is, of course, more becoming of a primary or secondary source than a tertiary source, hence the delimitation and claim of this policy.
Effects
Weasel words
As a primary source, Offetstine Wiki has a number of policies which differ from online encyclopedias and knowledge bases such as Wikipedia. As the preferred tone of the Offetstine Wiki is in-universe, contributors may need to attribute claims to in-universe characters which are not formally defined, due to their lack of notability. Furthermore, the wiki does not gain anything by carrying the names of individual characters to whom such claims must be attributed.
To that extent, the Offetstine Wiki explicitly allows weasel words as inline attributions for claims which stem from an undefined in-universe source. For instance, on the article for the town of Offetstine:
Estimates suggest that as many as 1 in 600 people in Offetstine are demi-human, as opposed to a much more lax estimate of 1 in 20 000 worldwide. However, these statistics are presented weakly by virtue of the Masquerade.
This claim is preferred to an attribution of a particular in-universe statistician or magical epistemologist (e.g. Constance Vivas) if it cannot be traced back to a specific character. As the claim, of which some variant was proposed on 27 July 2021, predates the introduction of Vivas's character on 4 December 2021, it is not sensible to attribute it to her. Unsourced claims which an author is not fully confident about may be suffixed with the transclusion {{Amend}}.
Declassification
Despite its in-universe tone, the Offetstine Wiki does not preclude the use of an encyclopedic tone, similar to what Wikipedia prescribes. The Offetstine Wiki is not the SCP Foundation. Articles should be written from the perspective of a resident of the world of Offetstine, but only insofar as the tone helps legibility. Information that would not be commonly available in-universe does not need to be restrained from readers, and editors need not contribute any reflection of the biases of in-universe characters.
Articles that contain information that is classified in-universe may document it rather fearlessly, and maintain a neutral tone as if written by an omniscient in-universe character. For instance, on the article for Raja, the former leader of the Coalition:
During his tenure in the Coalition, Raja enlisted several humans as his "proxies", turning them into vampires and using his magic to elicit their loyalty. At the tail end of his tenure in the Coalition, his proxies disbanded, either disappearing with him or returning to their prior lives and claiming no knowledge of the man.
It is known that the magic that Raja used to enthrall his proxies brought the side effect of exaggerating flaws and eccentricities in their personality; for example, while Raja succeeded in turning the formerly peaceful Lucinda sufficiently cruel and ruthless for Coalition affairs, he also exaggerated her childish nature, driving her to envision herself as an adolescent and other Coalition members as her caretakers.
Information about Raja's particular nature was withheld even from high-ranking members of the Coalition. It is reasonable to claim that this information is completely unknown to all currently accepted characters in Offetstine. Despite this, it serves as a useful worldbuilding asset, and to that extent is documented in the Offetstine Wiki.