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.
________________________________ From: Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@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with the rules of copyright, license, NPOV and “What Wikipedia is not”, but this page “is obsolete or no longer maintained” (and there is even no rule of “Five pillars”).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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