--- Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
On one hand, our project is held together by a couple of major rules, which should absolutely be followed by all projects. Hmmm, I see only a few ones
- general goal of a project should be respected,
whatever the language. 2) content should be freely usable, freely reusable and free to modify. 3) content should follow NPOV rule
And that's about it.
Although these three rules apply equally to the Wikipedias the same cannot be said of all projects. Wikisource and Wikiquote particularly do not hold a NPOV policy on material. Of course, editorial notes are another story but they make up a very, very small part of our project. Free to modify is also not a consideration on Wikisource as we explicitly forbid it in almost all cases. Also since next nothing in our project is available under GDFL it make the "freeness" very complicated. Even public domain is not straightforward. There are things that are PD in the US bur not in England for example. I could give many more inconsistencies of international copyright.
On the other hand, our project is not run in a top-down fashion. There is no reason why the Foundation should know or approve local project policies. So, generally, I see not why "this is not good" unless the policy is about the goal, or the licence or the npov.
I do not think things should be run completely from the top down. But we should have some basic guidelines similar to what you gave above actually on the wikis somewhere and translated in the correct language at the very least.
Would you be interested to create a group of people whose goals would be
- To study which languages should be covered in our
projects, or not
- To study the wiseness to open a new language of a
given project (according to number of interested editors etc...)
- To gather a collection of pages of rules and
guidelines to mandatorily translate in the future language before any creation of the new wiki
- To collect pages to suggest new wikis to help them
find their way in the jungle (with recommandations such as "register to foundation-l", "follow requests for permission on meta" etc...)
Do you think that would be interesting ? If so, would you agree to lead the creation of that group ?
Ant
I think that is very interesting and would definately want to be involved. I do not know that I have enough conacts amoung people with different language skills to start it up myself. If such group of people can be rounded up I would definately want to see this through. One the first things I feel is needed is updated stats on the current wikis so we can see what worked in the past and what has stalled. Also if the stats page gave numbers of admins and buerucrats (if any) that might be useful.
BirgitteSB
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