Wikipedia is a jynt projeck an its foonders an contreibutors hae a commoun aim:
- Oor aim wi Wikipedia is ti mak a trustie an free encyclopaedia—atweill, the greatest encyclopaedia in history, in baith breadth an depth.
Wikipedia haes somepolicies an guidelines that help us ti wirk for that commoun aim. Some o thir policies are aye chyngin, whiles ithers are lang settled an maistly uncontroversial.
While oor policies continue tae evolve, monieWikipedians jalouse that written rules canna cover ilka possible kin o disruptive or malevolent behaviour. For exemplar, a uiser that acks agin the speirit o oor written policies micht be caaed ower een gin the letter o the rules haesna been violated. Them that edit inguid faith, shawciveility, leuk forconsensus, an wirk for the aim o makin animpartialencyclopaedia, shuid find awalcoming environment.
Maist Wikipedia policy wis set in the early days o the projeck, maistly afore the end o 2002. Chynges an addeitions are made biconsensus, altho in practice consensus on policy chynges is unco deifficult tae win. In monie cases policy haes grown informally; written policies uisually codify the tradeetion o langsyne.
Proponed an rejeckit policies are in thir categories:
See forbyeWikipedia:Whit wey ti mak policy.
You are aWikipedia editor. Wikipedia disnae hae a heid editor or a central, top-doon seistem whaurby the dailiday wirk on the encyclopaedia is watchit an appruivit. Instead, workin contreibutors makcopyedits an corrections ti the content an leyoot problems thay see. Saethe contreibutors are baith writersan editors.
Maist policies an guidelines are thus enforced bi individual users editin pages, an discussin maiters wi ane anither. Forbye some policies are enforced bi temporary blocks (abuin aa as a wey odealin wi vandalism) bi admeinistrators. In the waur cases theArbitration Committee micht mak a rulin ti deal wi disruptive situations, as pairt o the generaldispute resolution procedure.
Some features o the saftware that micht be turned til ill, sic as deletin pages an lockin pages frae editin, are restrickit tilAdmeinistrators, that are experienced, trustie members o the community. Policies gey relevant tae admeinistrators include:
