[Foundation-l] It is high time we decided upon global Wikimedianprinciples

[Joe Szilagyi]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Dror K <dror1975 at icqmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> Currently we have very few global principles for the Wikimeian projects,
> namely the GFDL principle and maybe the NPOV principle. We have many
> recommendations listed on the Meta, which are not taken seriously in
> many projects. Wikimedia projects have grown tremendously, and in my
> opinion, it has become crucial that the list of principles governing all
> projects be a little more detailed. I suggest a few basic
> recommendations become obligatory. For example, [[meta:Polls are evil]]
> should become mandatory as a guideline to all projects. This article is
> very important as it put into practice the NPOV principle as well as the
> desicion-by-consensus and the differentiation between facts and views
> principles. I suppose there are other recommendation of this kind that
> should become mandatory guidelines. I am not suggesting a constitution
> or a full rule book. I do suggest to carefully single out several basic
> principles, since the projects' autonomy is a bit too wide, especially
> as we want to promote cross-contributions between projects.
> Dror
>

What about if a community decides it likes straight voting? What if another
community decides it just really likes rules and IAR is a taboo over there?
Like someone mentioned below Wikinews doesn't do GFDL.

- Joe