[WikiEN-l] Policy across different languages

[Jimmy Wales]

jayjg wrote:
> It appears that Russian Wikipedia is about to reject Verifiability as a policy:
> 
> http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C
> 
> Verifiability is usually considered one of the 3 core content policies
> on English Wikipedia.
> 
> This leads to a question; must the different Wikipedias have the same
> core policies? Could Russian Wikipedia do away with NPOV and NOR as
> well?  Could some other language Wikipedia do away with WP:CIVIL,
> etc.?

Well, it seems more that they are having some discussions over the 
precisely implementation, not over the policy in the broadest sense.

One of the things that I have enjoyed about travelling all over the 
world to visit with Wikipedians is the realization that people are more 
or less basically sane everywhere.  So I try not to panic about what is 
going on in languages I don't read.

There are some great Russian wikipedians.  They will see to it that 
everything is more or less ok. :)

--Jimbo