2007/9/11, Kat Walsh kat@mindspillage.org:
What's a "meta" policy? The restriction on open proxies is not a Foundation policy that must be enforced on all projects: there's never been a board resolution or other official action about it. It's just one many communities have chosen to adopt (and may, also, choose not to adopt), and so it is written on meta for reference by many projects.
Well, I have heard differently. Here some comments made during discussions about the blocking of open proxies on Dutch Wikipedia:
"I hate to bitch but: het blokkeren van open proxies is foundation policy. Mi dus niet iets waar "wij" (lees de lokale community) iets over te zeggen hebben."
transl.: "I had to bitch but: blocking open proxies is foundation policy. In my opinion therefore not something where "we" (read: the local community) have a say in."
"het blokkeren van OP's is formeel beleid op alle Wikimediaprojecten"
transl.: "Blocking open proxies is formal policy on all Wikimedia projects"