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%B...
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