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Governance Score
How WikiSure measures semantic governance maturity: calculation, scoring criteria, and how to interpret results.
What it measures
The Governance Score is a composite 0–100 measure of an organization's semantic governance maturity. It rolls up five operational signals captured continuously from the WikiSure registry — not a self-assessment survey.
Components
- Definition coverage (25 pts) — share of critical business terms with an approved canonical definition.
- Owner accountability (20 pts) — share of canonical definitions with a single named owner (committees count as zero).
- Approval discipline (20 pts) — share of changes routed through Steward + Approver review.
- Freshness (20 pts) — share of definitions reviewed within the last 12 months.
- Drift remediation (15 pts) — share of detected drift events resolved within SLA.
Maturity bands
- 0–24 Ad hoc — definitions exist informally; no governance signal.
- 25–49 Emerging — coverage gaps and stale definitions dominate.
- 50–74 Operating — governance is routine but drift remediation lags.
- 75–89 Governed — coverage + ownership + freshness all healthy.
- 90–100 Aligned — agent-ready semantic infrastructure.
How to improve
The cheapest gain is usually owner accountability: assigning a named owner to every existing definition lifts the score immediately and unlocks the rest of the model. The most durable gain is drift remediation SLA: an organization that closes drift events within a defined window also raises its coverage and freshness over time.