Wikiversity:Policies

Policies

See the talk page for general discussion about Wikiversity policies. Please note that the Wikiversity project proposal underlies these policies. Discussions related to the development of research policy are conducted in a multi-lingual format at beta.wikiversity.org—you can start at: Research guidelines.

Policies required by the Wikimedia Foundation

Policies listed at Meta:Policies and guidelines for all Wikimedia projects are outside the direct control of the Wikiversity community and must be followed by Wikiversity.

Meta also lists some policies which are adopted by some projects.

For example, Meta:Neutral point of view is adopted by some Wikimedia projects. However, Wikiversity has developed policies that allow participants to NOT use the neutral point of view (NPOV) in some situations. Editing outside of the constraints imposed by NPOV imposes other special requirements on editors. Most Wikiversity pages adhere to NPOV.

Existing policies

This is a list of official policies that have been adopted on the English Wikiversity (the link shows the voting). The adoption process is discussed on the talk page. A policy should already have the Template:Policy banner before being added to this list.

Behavioural

• Assume Good Faith
• Civility

Content

• Reliable sources
• Verifiability

General

• Be bold
• What is Wikiversity?

Other

• Community Review Policy
• Bots
• CheckUser policy
• Interface administrators
• Custodianship
• Rollback
• Privacy policy

Draft policies

Note: These policies are in development. Please contribute and comment.

• Artificial intelligence

Proposed policies

Note: Some of these policies were rejected by vote shortly after Wikiversity's foundation. These policies should be revised and resubmitted for approval or archived.

Behavioural

• No legal threats
• Respect people

Content policies

• Academic freedom
• Cite sources
• Course Titles and Numbers
• Disclosures (incorporates NPOV and Confessions)
• Wikiversity:External links
• Wikiversity:Free license content
• Naming conventions
  • (rejected by 3:2 in August 2006; 1 abstention)
  • (As of August 2009, the proposal was rejected 7:3:3 on its talk page; the policy was clearly unacceptable in that form)
  • (There have been substantial modifications since 2010 that are yet to be re-assessed.)
• Network naming conventions
• Referees
• Subpages
• What Wikiversity is not (rejected by 5:3 in August 2006)

Enforcing policies

• Banned user
• Blocking

Misc

• Administrator Creation and Behavioral Criteria Guidelines and Policy
• archived CheckUser policy
• No early policies
• Manual of Style
• Polls
• Productive Forking and Tailoring is Encouraged
• Talkpage policy

Rejected policies

The following policies have been rejected so clearly that they should probably not be revived in any new form. They are listed here to help avoid repetition.

• Wikiversity:Assembly (rejected without vote)
• Wikiversity:Bans (rejected without vote)
• Wikiversity:Delegable proxy (written by 1 user, rejected by 1 user)
• Ignore all rules (rejected by 6:1 in August 2006)
• Wikiversity:Scholarly ethics (rejected by 6:1:1 from August 2006  — January 2007)
• Wikiversity:Voluntary custodial restraint (written by 1 user, rejected by 1 user)

Guidelines

Best practice guidelines

These policy-like documents contain guidelines which have not been voted on or which have not achieved formal consensus in a poll, but which have become established in practice.

• Consensus
• Deletion policy
• Usernames

Wikiversity development

Some of these pages have been proposed to the community for codification, while others are collections of participants' thoughts on the advancement of Wikiversity.

• Category:Wikiversity development - pages concerned with advancing Wikiversity
• Wikiversity mission (rejected by 1:0 in August 2006)
• Wikiversity:Proposed Hierarchical Structure
• How Wikiversity makes policy