Very good idea to have such policy.
Quote: # Full participation in projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation must not require the use of any proprietary software on the user's system.
I'd like to throw in two things:
* the crossbrowser compatibility - I saw couple scripts or styles which operated in Gecko based browsers (Firefox & co.) as intended, but in IE it was completely unusable. Since Gecko based browsers are not proprietary software, this point doesn't cover these issues, however participating on and/or using of WMF projects should also not require use of any particular software. (Yes, opensource is free available, but the common problem is eg. employees can't install anything on their computers at work and having preset browser.) * the accessibility issue - (not necesarily software issue, but tightly related with previous item) since we declare being "open" encyclopedia, we should take care about having pages accessible at least against WCAG Single A and/or Section 508 guidelines.
If these two items don't fit in the desired intention or sense of the policy, I'd welcome creating of the accessibility policy as well.
Regards
Danny B.
------------ Původní zpráva ------------ Od: Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org Předmět: [Wikitech-l] Software Policy Draft Datum: 03.9.2007 10:47:55
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This is a first modest draft for a software policy for WMF projects. It's an attempt to codify our existing practices re: free file formats & open source software. I'd appreciate feedback & edits. If we can end up with something that makes sense, I'll put it to a Board vote.
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