[Foundation-l] It is high time we decided upon global Wikimedianprinciples

Mon Aug 4 17:18:00 UTC 2008

Ting Chen wrote:
> We have some fundamental rules, that at least theoretically should be implemented on all projects. That all content are under GFDL and should thus be granted free for ever is one of these rules. NPOV is another such rule. Openness is also a foundamental rule of all WikiMedia projects.
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> And we have some rules that was issued by the foundation in the past. Only use free live person photographies is one of these rules that I can remember of now.

?

I do not remember such rule.

The nearest rule I can think of is 
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy

Ant

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> If the rules could and would be implemented on the individual projects is hard to say. It may be so that on some projects the rules are implemented more ridigly than on other projects. It is difficult, if not even impossible, to install a global mechanism to watch for the implementation of all these rules on all projects.
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> I don't think that we need other global rules at the moment. Im principle I think the selfgouvenment of the projects by themselves works quite well and I would like to keep global rules ordered by the foundation as few as possible.
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> Ting
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> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 06:49:32 -0700
>> Von: "Dror K" <dror1975 at icqmail.com>
>> An: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Betreff: [Foundation-l] It is high time we decided upon global	Wikimedianprinciples
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>> Hello,
>> Currently we have very few global principles for the Wikimeian projects,
>> namely the GFDL principle and maybe the NPOV principle. We have many
>> recommendations listed on the Meta, which are not taken seriously in
>> many projects. Wikimedia projects have grown tremendously, and in my
>> opinion, it has become crucial that the list of principles governing all
>> projects be a little more detailed. I suggest a few basic
>> recommendations become obligatory. For example, [[meta:Polls are evil]]
>> should become mandatory as a guideline to all projects. This article is
>> very important as it put into practice the NPOV principle as well as the
>> desicion-by-consensus and the differentiation between facts and views
>> principles. I suppose there are other recommendation of this kind that
>> should become mandatory guidelines. I am not suggesting a constitution
>> or a full rule book. I do suggest to carefully single out several basic
>> principles, since the projects' autonomy is a bit too wide, especially
>> as we want to promote cross-contributions between projects.
>> Dror
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