[Foundation-l] Policies on wikimediafoundation.org

MZMcBride z at mzmcbride.com
Sun Jan 22 01:11:28 UTC 2012


Samuel Klein wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jesse (Pathoschild)
> <pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 19:38, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I think it makes sense to better delineate what applies to different
>>> groups.
>> 
>> Agreed. A good starting point is the navigation template for
>> Board-approved policies, which distinguishes between global policies
>> (like the licensing policy) and staff policies (like the credit card
>> usage policy): https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:Policy-board
> 
> Yes.  I just split the policy template into -board and -staff to
> suggest which group is effectively maintaining that policy.  Some
> staff policies started life via a Board resolution when the staff was
> small, but should now be maintanied by staff.
> 
> We might want a -draft template as well for policies in development.

Thanks for this. I saw your edits. Overall pretty good. :-)

Using your tagging, it might be easier to clarify
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies#Policies>.

MZMcBride






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