On 06/09/05, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com> wrote:
The conclusion that I take away from this thread is
that yes,
each wikipedia has its own culture and preferred practices, and
it would be extraordinarily useful to have articles describing
all that. Even just a translated summary of distinctive policy
pages would be helpful to people who are not fluent in the other
WP's language. For instance, if I were interested in whether the
Russian WP accepts "fair use" images, an English WP article on
the Russian WP would probably be a more reliable way to find out
than by posting an English-language question on the Russian
equivalent of village pump.
I've just - entirely by coincidence - encountered [[en:Japanese
Wikipedia]]; I suspect this is pretty much an excellent example of
what you want. Contains the usual history section - milestone
articles, media coverage, awards - but also a "Characteristics" page,
which tells us they don't accept fair use, they delete copyvios out of
the history, and - interestingly - that "An article will be deleted if
it countains the name of a private citizen unless they are a public
figure."
The last is certainly one an external user wouldn't have expected, and
this is the sort of thing these pages could be very useful for
generally...
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- Andrew Gray
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