Meta:Policies and guidelines
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |