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Fri Mar 14 23:02:16 UTC 2008

like the core social policies are often the ones that break down, i.e.
if a group of admins decides to sieze control etc. So maybe we should
stop arguing about *content* policies (which are obviously different
from project to project, though not that different) and focus on a set
of core social policies for the projects that can and should be the
"norm" on anything the Foundation does. For instance:

* civility
* consensus
* openness -- by default anyone is welcome to participate,
unless/until they behave badly

this is pretty basic stuff, but it seems that they are sometimes these
qualities are in short supply. On a small wiki without of a lot of
guidance, it may be that these community principles do not in fact
develop "naturally", depending on the people involved. It would be
interesting to hear more about case studies from smaller projects.

phoebe