I am trying to make the Wiki understandable to non-developers.

Here is the text from the Game settings section:

== Diplomatic Difficulty ==

* More AI Ruler Alliances and Diplomatic offers
* More AI Ruler Trade offers, on more favorable terms
* Less AI War declarations / higher belli requirements
* AI will never cancel alliances at Very Easy / Easy
* AI Rulers will never conspire to declare war together at Very Easy/Easy
* More favorable evaluation of Diplomatic offers
* More favorable evaluation of Diplomatic trades
* Regional Relations, Civ Attitude effects 60% to 140% of Normal
* Belli Effects 60% to 140% of Normal
* Adjustment to Initial (game start) player integrity, subsidy, wmapproval values
* Adjustment to Initial (game start) AI subsidy, wmapproval values
* Adjust end of day wmapproval, subsidy rating
* Adjust rate of gradual reduction of belli when not at war
* End of Day Change of AI Ruler dip relations, civ attitude, and belli
* (New in 5.2) No AI ruler vs player largest army or build cap belli at Very Easy
* (New in 5.2) Humans automatically gain some belli against AI at Very Easy


"More AI Ruler Alliances and Diplomatic offers" :

At what setting - high or low?
Alliances with who - me, other AIs?

"Less AI War declarations / higher belli requirements" :

Should be "fewer AI War declarations".
At what setting - high or low?
Alliances with who - me, other AIs?

"Regional Relations, Civ Attitude effects 60% to 140% of Normal":

What does this mean?
Which Regional Relations - I can think of three different measurements for these.
What is "Civ Attitude"?

"Adjustment to Initial (game start) player integrity, subsidy, wmapproval values":

What is "player integrity"?
Adjusted higher, lower?
As Diplomatic difficulty increases or decreases?

"Adjustment to Initial (game start) AI subsidy, wmapproval values":

What is an "AI Subsidy"?

"End of Day Change of AI Ruler dip relations, civ attitude, and belli":

At which level of diplomatic difficulty?
What kind of change?

"(New in 5.2) No AI ruler vs player largest army or build cap belli at Very Easy":

What does "largest army" have to do with anything?
I know what "build cap belli" is but no new player would.
What does "No AI ruler vs player largest army" mean?

Can someone please help me out here? I can guess at most of this but the text is so geeky and ambiguous that I don't want to risk it.

Here is a link to the whole page:

http://www.supremewiki.com/index.php/SR ... y_Settings

The other sections are just as bad, but if I cross-posted about them then Balthagor would probably ping on me.

OK, let me try this again with a simpler question - the Wiki says that the Diplomatic Difficulty setting effects include:

"
Adjust end of day wmapproval, subsidy rating
End of Day Change of AI Ruler dip relations, civ attitude, and belli
"

Does this mean that the DD level effects whether there is an EOD adjustment or not?

Or does it mean that it determines the number of days between adjustments?

Or does it mean the the magnitude of the daily adjustments are changed? If so, in which direction, using what criteria?

Its the magnitude each day. And the charts Cat posted on the wiki show generaly which direction things are going to change to.