[Foundation-l] Compulsory policies for all Wikipedias

[Birgitte SB]

--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Jaska Zedlik <jz53zc at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jaska Zedlik <jz53zc at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Compulsory policies for all Wikipedias
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 2:25 PM
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 21:27, Milos
> Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > The question was about a list which should exist
> somewhere (at Meta).
> >
> 
> Thank you, but not obligatory a list. I meant any form,
> even a number
> of rules written on this mailing list. Otherwise we (may)
> have a
> situation when, for instance, a user puts some inflammatory
> or
> divisive content on their user page and administrators are
> unable to
> delete it, until a policy which regulates this is adopted
> locally.
> NPOV and Wikimedia Founding principles regulate only
> "articles and
> other encyclopedic content" and can't be applied in this
> case.
> 
> Or even further, community could adopt a policy when
> divisive content
> is allowed on user pages. NPOV is not violated, Founding
> principles
> are not violated as well. So everything depends only on a
> local
> community. I don't think this is a common thing, but maybe
> it worth
> thinking about this now rather when we face this problem.
> 


Those are not situations which would be covered by any Compulsory policy across projects.  Community governance does depend only on the local community.  That is a feature not a bug.


Birgitte SB