Hi,

The last time, I asked a question how to share WP:NOT idea among WP local projects. I really appreciate lots of informative feed backs.

According to your replies, I confirmed that basically, officially, only requirement is that they follow the founding principles http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founding_principles.

1. Neutral point of view as a guiding editorial principle, 2. The ability of anyone to edit (most) articles without registration, 3. The "wiki process" and discussion with other editors as the final decision-making mechanism for all content. 4. Free licensing of content; in practice defined by each project as public domain, GFDL, CC-BY-SA or CC-BY. 5. Maintaining room for fiat to help resolve particularly difficult problems. By convention, Jimbo Wales and later Arbitration Committees retain certain authority on the English Wikipedia (and other wikis set up similar frameworks) — to make binding, final decisions such as banning an editor.

At the same time, I see (in english WP) Wikipedia:Five pillars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

As you see, this looks very fundamental 'pillars' to define what wikipedia is...

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia Wikipedia has a neutral point of view Wikipedia is free content Wikipedia has a code of conduct Wikipedia does not have firm rules

Clearly, NPV and free-content(free licensing of content) are shared between the founding principles and the WP-5-five-pillars. The first one is - an encyclopedia, which is an obvious definition of the wikipedia project.

So, what I would like to watch closely here are the last 2 pillars, Wikipedia has a code of conduct Wikipedia does not have firm rules

To me, Wikipedia:Consensus that is a part of Wikipedia has a code of conduct tightly connects to

Wikipedia does not have firm rules = Wikipedia:Ignore all rules, WP:NOTLAW, WP:NOTDEMOCRACY.

and basically mentions the same concept, it looks like.

So, my questions are as follows.

1. While Wikipedia:Five pillars includes Founding_principles and the definition of WP(Wikipedia is an encyclopedia), is this still english local WP pillars? or What do you think if we share the WP pillars among WP local projects? What do you think if a local WP project refuses to share the WP pillars?

2. What do you think 'IF' a local project like ja-wp ,as a result, determines discard the essence of the concept -WP:Consensus and prefer treat WP:rules as a Law?

That's it, thanks. Regards,

--wp99