I think that the general principles are a perfectly acceptable "policy" and
creating a compulsory policy is a bad idea. Each project needs the independence provided
by the general principles. Due to the vast diversity of the Wikimedia family, we cannot
make hard and fast rules and expect each prject to use them. Flexibility is a virtue.
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From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 11:00:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Compulsory policies for all Wikipedias
I think the assumption is that any Wikipedia will adopt the general
policies found on the English Wikipedia, but tailor them for local
conditions. A project which wishes to significantly deviate from the
general principles of everyone can edit, neutral point of view, and using
reliable sources should probably be independent.
Perhaps it is time a definite policy is drafted and published.
Fred Bauder
Hi!
It is totally clear that all the Wikipedias must respect and follow
some particular policies which are global for all the Wikipedias. The
question is what are these policies?
Each small Wikipedia doesn’t have all variety of policies and
guidelines which major Wikipedias have, and—it’s obvious—some time
or
other they will need such a list of all-projects rules. What I found
for now is
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:How_to_start_a_new_Wikipedia
with the rules of copyright, license, NPOV and “What Wikipedia is
not”, but this page “is obsolete or no longer maintained” (and
there
is even no rule of “Five pillars”). There is also page
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founding_principles exists, but it
seems to be relevant for all Wikimedia projects, not only Wikipedias
(“Five pillars”, “What Wikipedia is not” are missed). There are
some
other pages exist, but they all are not relevant here as well.
So, does an all-Wikipedias rules list exist, or if not, what are there
global rules which all the Wikipedias must follow?
And one more question. What is the general practice of who and how can
decide whether something meets the (all-project) rules or not?
(This message was also posted to Wikimedia Forum on Meta).
Thanks,
zedlik
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