Hello, Currently we have very few global principles for the Wikimeian projects, namely the GFDL principle and maybe the NPOV principle. We have many recommendations listed on the Meta, which are not taken seriously in many projects. Wikimedia projects have grown tremendously, and in my opinion, it has become crucial that the list of principles governing all projects be a little more detailed. I suggest a few basic recommendations become obligatory. For example, [[meta:Polls are evil]] should become mandatory as a guideline to all projects. This article is very important as it put into practice the NPOV principle as well as the desicion-by-consensus and the differentiation between facts and views principles. I suppose there are other recommendation of this kind that should become mandatory guidelines. I am not suggesting a constitution or a full rule book. I do suggest to carefully single out several basic principles, since the projects' autonomy is a bit too wide, especially as we want to promote cross-contributions between projects. Dror
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