its nice idea most just usurp the english policies to start with anyway when they need it so having a base line on meta would be good though probably it would best to have it set up automatically in the incubator stage so that they get moved across when the projects takes the big leap forward and the community that develops the project can develop these policies as they grow. It also means that as part of the jump these pages will need to have been translated as well.
note I'm currently involved with a wikipedia in the the incubator
On 2 August 2017 at 22:29, Tito Dutta trulytito@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Some works and study was done for Indic Wikimedia projects (there are 24 communities) after a detailed consultation and needs-assessment, please see: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indic_Wikipedia_ Policies_and_Guidelines_Handbook.pdf There are three types of issues: a) Localizing policies (translating is not the only way, but localizing keeping a project in mind) b) Enforce them c) For smaller communities having a group of editors working on these
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On 2 August 2017 at 19:35, John Erling Blad jeblad@gmail.com wrote:
Nearly all Wikipedia projects has virtually the same core content
policies,
but with slightly different wording. Nearly all, because a lot of the smaller lacks them, and a lot has outdated or only partial policies. It takes a lot of time to actually make them and keep them updated.
Creating and maintaining the core content policies should not be
something
that small projects should invest a lot of time in, they should simply be able to point to existing policies on Meta. The central policies should
be
localized if necessary.
Checking Meta I find
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_no_original_research_policy
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Neutral_point_of_view
I can't find anything like "Verifiability".
Would it be possible for Wikimedia Foundation to make some sound baseline policies, and with the option for local projects to refine those? Perhaps with assistance from editors on Wikipedia?
Lets try to make the policies accurate, without "no original research" diverging into verifiability of external sources. It should be about original research in content on Wikipedia. Likewise, at some projects neutral point of view has become "do not diverge from creators point of view"…
Would this be possible? It would be really nice if those baseline
policies
pages could be copied to the individual projects like central user pages, so they would be "internal" to the projects. Thus the projects would have more "ownership" of them.
The same thing apply to other meta projects (Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, etc).
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