Meta:Policies and guidelines
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This is an index of policies and guidelines, organised by their scope. Most pages linked below are policies. Some are explicitly marked as guidelines.
Link | Description | Scope |
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Terms of use | This describes the general conditions and mutual responsibilities that all users must agree with, before using Wikimedia projects and sites, or reusing their content. | |
Universal Code of Conduct | This defines a minimum set of guidelines of expected and unacceptable behaviour. It applies to everyone who interacts and contributes to online and offline Wikimedia projects and spaces. | |
No open proxies | This prohibits users from editing Wikimedia projects through open or anonymous proxies. | |
Privacy policy | The WMF privacy policy. | |
Steward policies | Various policies relevant to Stewards. | |
Office actions | This covers on-wiki actions taken by official representatives of the Foundation. | |
Language proposal policy | How to propose opening a new language subdomain of an existing project. Handled by the language committee. | |
Closing projects policy | This defines the process to close (or delete) a WMF wiki. Proposals are handled by language committee. | |
Special global permissions | Policy and information about permissions used by System administrators and Ombudsmen. | |
CheckUser policy | CheckUser access and use. | |
Oversight policy | Oversight access and use. | |
Global rollback | The approval process for global rollback access, and guidelines for its use. | see list |
Abuse filter helpers | The approval process for global Abuse filter read-only access, and guidelines for its use. | see list |
New wikis importers | The approval process for the new wikis importers global user group, and guidelines for its use. | |
Global bans | The process for the formal revocation of editing privileges across all Wikimedia wikis. | |
Password policy | Password requirements for users of Wikimedia wikis. |
Link | Description |
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Administrator policies | Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki administrators. |
Bot policy | Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki bots. |
Bureaucrat policies | Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki bureaucrats. |
Civility policy | Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki civility and urbanity. |
Deletion policy | The process and rules for page deletion. |
Inclusion policy | Types of pages that are acceptable or unacceptable on this Wiki. |
Interface administrators | Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki interface administrators. |
Anti "snowball" policy | Prohibits speedy closure of discussions at this project. |
Meta-Steward relationship | Outlines the relationship between elected staff at Meta-Wiki and the Stewards. |
Flood flag | [guideline] The purpose and acceptable use of the "flood" flag. |
IP block exemption | [guideline] The purpose, acceptable use and rules regarding the IP block exemption permission. |
Link | Description | Scope |
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Bot policy | Approval process for bot access, and guidelines for its use | see list |
Global sysops | Information and policies related to global sysops. | see list |
Neutral point of view | Information about various 'Neutral point of view' policies. | wp, wb, wn, wikt, wq, ws |
Wikinews accreditation policy | The Wikinews policies for granting accreditation, used on certain languages of the Project. | wn |