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

[Renata St]

> I may be hopelessly naive about this, but my general experience would
> seem to suggest that there's not really a need for this, because folks
> who are attracted to Wikimedia projects tend to share our (deep down)
> core values.  If not, our various communities tend to push them in
> that direction fairly strongly.
>
> Attempting to impose en.wikipedia's worldview on things like this is
> probably doomed to failure, in my opinion... it's almost the online
> version of pushing a colonialist agenda.
>
>
Totally agree that this is not necessary - much paperwork, discussion,
!voting, etc and very very little actual benefit.

Most projects are quite mature and settled their own rules, standards, etc.
Coming in as a "big boss from foundation" and telling to change things
around will only cause resentment.

I think the only global principle that's true to all projects is FREEDOM.
Both in $ and (c) sense. So give the projects another freedom: decide its
own policies.

Renata3