On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 23 May 2014 19:23, Wil Sinclair
<wllm(a)wllm.com> wrote:
Is it correct that each project/subdomain of
Wikipedia and Wikimedia
has its own, potentially unique Child Protection Policy?
No. The meta policy at
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use#4._Refraining_from_Certain_Activities>
applies to all projects and so where a local policy may exist, it must
implement the meta policy.
Thanks for the link.
If you intend to focus discussion in one place, rather
than on
multiple projects, email lists and on non-wikimedia managed websites
at the same time, then meta would probably be a sensible place to
summarize or ask for a community consensus. As has been explained,
this has been done before, and one learning point was that by having
multiple channels, drama or even excitement may be created, but any
potentially good ideas for improvement are *far* more likely to drain
away in the sand and result in continued general dissatisfaction and
frustration.
People can obviously discuss whether the policies are optimal and/or
sufficient, but I'm just asking what the current policies are. Since I
started the discussion here and no one seems interested in drama, it
sounds like the thread should be continued here. Sorry if I didn't
post to the most appropriate list; I'm a newbie.
,Wil