Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
One other question would be "is the personal attacks policy limited
to
the English Wikipedia?"
No, it is global. Personal attacks are not helpful in the creation of
a high quality encyclopedia and a healthy, caring community.
<snip>
--Jimbo
Hi, are there any other policies that you consider global?
--Dittaeva
leercontainer-wikimedia@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi, are there any other policies that you consider global?
Neutrality (NPOV) as expressed in my original exposition of the concept.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia (there can be some cultural variation in what is considered appropriate for an encyclopedia versus a dictionary, but my point is just that Wikipedia is not a joke book or a personal chat site, etc.)
There's probably some other things that I'm forgetting right now, but that's the essence of it. Decisions about how to select sysops or exactly what to do about particular trolls are so case-specific and culture-specific that it would be silly of us to imagine that non-en wikipedias will follow the same path.
Things like naming conventions or style conventions are going to be highly culture and language specific.
Indeed, I would imagine that some of the younger/smaller wikis will learn from the mistakes of the older/larger wikis.
Even the detailed implementation of a broad rule like "no personal attacks" is going to be culture specific to a degree.
--Jimbo
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales a écrit:
leercontainer-wikimedia@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi, are there any other policies that you consider global?
Neutrality (NPOV) as expressed in my original exposition of the concept.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia (there can be some cultural variation in what is considered appropriate for an encyclopedia versus a dictionary, but my point is just that Wikipedia is not a joke book or a personal chat site, etc.)
There's probably some other things that I'm forgetting right now, but that's the essence of it. Decisions about how to select sysops or exactly what to do about particular trolls are so case-specific and culture-specific that it would be silly of us to imagine that non-en wikipedias will follow the same path.
Things like naming conventions or style conventions are going to be highly culture and language specific.
Indeed, I would imagine that some of the younger/smaller wikis will learn from the mistakes of the older/larger wikis.
Even the detailed implementation of a broad rule like "no personal attacks" is going to be culture specific to a degree.
--Jimbo
I might add that another current global rule is one of openess and freedom of participating. We welcome everyone to participate, whatever the gender, age, social background, level of education, citizenship etc... We do not request real name, we do not even request pseudonyme.
If one wikipedia was beginning to restrict participation, by for example, requesting that the editor provides due diploma to prove his educational background to be able to contribute, or a signature from a husband or father to authorize a woman to edit, or for a user to pay to be able to become a wikiholic, then, there would be a serious problem.
Note that this global rule of openess overlaps with the "no personal attacks". When one feels threatened, be it by one editor or by the community, then, there is no more openess really.
No ?
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