Удзельнік:Zedlik/правілы

subj: Compulsory policies for all Wikipedias

It is totally clear that all the Wikipedias must respect and follow some particular policies which are global for all the Wikipedias. The question is what are these policies?

Each small Wikipedia doesn’t have all variety of policies and guidelines which major Wikipedias have, and—it’s obvious— some time or other they will need such a list of all-projects rules. What I found for now is http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:How_to_start_a_new_Wikipedia with the rules of copyright, license, NPOV and “What Wikipedia is not”, but this page “is obsolete or no longer maintained” (and there is even no rule of “Five pillars”). There is also page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founding_principles exists, but it seems to be relevant for all Wikimedia projects, not only Wikipedias (“Five pillars”, “What Wikipedia is not” are missed). There are some other pages exist, but they all are not relevant here as well.

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

And one more question. What is the general practice of who and how can decide whether something meets the (all-project) rules or not?

(This message was also posted to foundation-l mailing list and Wikimedia Forum on Meta). —zedlik 01:24, 9 красавіка 2009 (UTC)