[Foundation-l] Compulsory policies for all Wikipedias

[David Gerard]

2009/4/9 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:01 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/4/9 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Jaska Zedlik <jz53zc at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>> So, does an all-Wikipedias rules list exist, or if not, what are there
>>>> global rules which all the Wikipedias must follow?

>>> No.

>> NPOV. Wikipedias which refuse it have been shut down.

> The question was about a list which should exist somewhere (at Meta).


Yes, we could do with one.


> BTW, probably I missed that some Wikipedia was shut down because of
> violating NPOV. Which Wikipedias were shut down because of NPOV
> violation?


I understand it was a factor in the shutdown of the old-Belarusian and
Siberian wikipedias. Not the only thing, but a factor. I could be
wrong here on its importance, of course.


- d.