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.

All Wikimedia projects

LinkDescription Scope
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.

Meta-Wiki

LinkDescription
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.

Some Wikimedia projects

LinkDescription Scope
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
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