On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 May 2014 19:23, Wil Sinclair wllm@wllm.com wrote:
Is it correct that each project/subdomain of Wikipedia and Wikimedia has its own, potentially unique Child Protection Policy?
No. The meta policy at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use#4._Refraining_from_Certain_Activities applies to all projects and so where a local policy may exist, it must implement the meta policy.
Thanks for the link.
If you intend to focus discussion in one place, rather than on multiple projects, email lists and on non-wikimedia managed websites at the same time, then meta would probably be a sensible place to summarize or ask for a community consensus. As has been explained, this has been done before, and one learning point was that by having multiple channels, drama or even excitement may be created, but any potentially good ideas for improvement are *far* more likely to drain away in the sand and result in continued general dissatisfaction and frustration.
People can obviously discuss whether the policies are optimal and/or sufficient, but I'm just asking what the current policies are. Since I started the discussion here and no one seems interested in drama, it sounds like the thread should be continued here. Sorry if I didn't post to the most appropriate list; I'm a newbie.
,Wil