Only when they are common by necessity, not when they are common by coincidence. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of John Erling Blad Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 1:06 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Core content policy Common core policies should be on Meta, not Incubator. On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Gnangarra <gnanga...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think meta is the wrong place, the coreor base line policies should > be in the incubator not meta and created as guide at the start of a > project then let the project develop their uniqueness, individuality > from there. If it gets put on meta it will become a you must do this > and only this to the wikilawyers removing all community input into the > process. Also for many people they dont follow meta so what will also > happen is that these will get changed and the new policy will become > via a forced cascade to the communities. I for one could never > support any process being created as a means to take away from the > community its own solutions > > On 3 August 2017 at 15:33, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I used Wikipedia as an example, I would not expect core content > > policy > from > > Wikipedia to be a good fit for Wikivoyage. Still Wikivoyage could > > have common ploicies on Meta the same way Wikipedia would do. > > > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 12:53 AM, Keegan Peterzell > > <keegan.w...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Todd Allen <toddmal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > I'd definitely agree there. There are a few non-negotiable > > > > points > > (NPOV, > > > > copyright and licensing, nonfree content, etc.), but outside > > > > those, individual projects generally have latitude to run things > > > > as their community needs. > > > > > > > > > The English Wikivoyage has a "Be fair" policy, which is > > > explicitly different from NPOV [0]. Copyright also varies from > > > wiki to wiki, as > > fair > > > use for non-free content on the English Wikipedia exemplifies [1]. > > > > > > Things are not so simple. > > > > > > 0. https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Be_fair# > > > Neutral_point_of_view > > > 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content > > > > > > > > > -- > > > ~Keegan > > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan > > > > > > This is my personal email address. Everything sent from this email > > address > > > is in a personal capacity. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscrib > > > e> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > -- > GN. > President Wikimedia Australia > WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra > Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
