Angela wrote:
Timwi wrote:
Someone please proof-read it before making it
official. :/
It needs more than proof reading before it can be made official.
Suggesting, as the page did before I edited it, that this was an
agreement between users and the Foundation, is not legally meaningful
when the board has not even approved these terms. I have emailed
Anthere and Jimbo about this with a view to determining whether or not
we do want these terms to be official. I also think that if we have
terms of use, they need to be translated and put into effect
site-wide. It doesn't make sense to have these conditions for one
language version of Wikipedia, and nothing at all for the other wikis.
I think we should continue the consensus-based system of "officialness"
that we've been using for years now: if the Wikipedia community says
it's official, then it's official. That's what the discussion on the
talk page is for: to hammer out a consensus wording.
Perhaps for legal niceties the board ought to rubber-stamp it, but I
certainly would expect the board wouldn't fail to agree to something
that has been drawn up by consensus.
-Mark