Wikimedia community code of conduct

A code of conduct (CoC) is a set of guidelines which directs the behavior of all community members during their participation in that community.

The Wikimedia community does not currently have a document named "code of conduct".

Beginning in September 2019 the Wikimedia community began to develop the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC), which was adopted in 2022.

Related policies and guidelines

• Terms of Use
• d:Q21079028 – global – wmf:Non discrimination policy – e.g. w:en:Wikipedia:Non-discrimination policy
• Meta:Civility
• Friendly space policies
• mw:Bug management/Phabricator etiquette
• Wikimedia Foundation – Code of conduct policy
• Code of conduct of the Board of Trustees (approved in April 2016)
• Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces approved by Wikimedia Foundation technical staff in 2017 (announcement and details)

Local project policies

• d:Q4654593 – Project:Civility – e.g. w:en:Wikipedia:Civility
• d:Q3621820 – Project:Etiquette – e.g. w:en:Wikipedia:Etiquette
• d:Q4657367 – Project:Please do not bite the newcomers – e.g. w:en:Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers
• d:Q4663356 – Project:Assume good faith – e.g. w:en:Wikipedia:Assume good faith
• d:Q4654725 – Project:No personal attacks – e.g. w:en:Wikipedia:No personal attacks
• d:Q10971677 – Project:Harassment – e.g. w:en:Wikipedia:Harassment
• d:Q8102641 – Category:Wikipedia conduct policies – e.g. w:en:Category:Wikipedia conduct policies

Wiki community group codes of conduct

• Wikimedia user groups/Agreement and code of conduct
• Wiki Project Med/Code of Conduct
• Wikimedia UK Trustee Code of Conduct – Based on the Nolan principles, a set of standards in the UK. Following an extensive research and deliberation process in 2012-12.
• v:WikiJournal User Group/Code of conduct draft
• Wikimedia New York City/Code of Conduct
• Code of conduct of Wikimedia Italia
• Art+Feminism User Group/Safe, Brave Space Policy

Codes of conduct for other online communities

• Contributor Covenant – a shared Code of Conduct adopted by many open-source projects
• Debian (Q7593) - General Resolution: code of conduct (has GPL2 as its free license)
• Django (Q842014) - Django Code of Conduct CC-By licensed
• GitHub Community Guidelines
• GNU Kind Communications Guidelines
• JavaScript – Code of Conduct
• Mozilla (Q9661) - Community Participation Guidelines – Creative Commons
• Python (Q28865) - Python Community Code of Conduct CC0
• Rust (Q575650) - Code of Conduct- MIT license – adopted by WHATWG (here) and others
• X (Q918) - Code of Conduct v1.0
• Ubuntu (Q381) - Ubuntu Code of Conduct v2.0 said to be CC-licensed, but this is doubted by Mozilla
• Write the Docs Code of Conduct – CC BY-NC-SA – based on Django's and updated in 2019
• Citizen Code of Conduct – CC-BY-SA
• Conference Code of Conduct
• YouTube, "harassment policy", discussed but not published?
• International Organization for Standardization (Q15028) - ISO Code of Conduct for the technical work
• Internet Archive

See also

• Grants:IdeaLab/Code of conduct synchronization
• d:Q2119819 – Code of conduct (article) – e.g. w:en:Code of conduct