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# '''Administrators are here to provide a safe, pleasant working environment''' - They are not to use their powers to win content disputes. | # '''Administrators are here to provide a safe, pleasant working environment''' - They are not to use their powers to win content disputes. | ||
#'''"''You'' can edit this page right now" is a core guiding check on everything that we do.''' We must respect this principle as sacred. <ref>This line is lifted straight from Wikipedia. Encyc shamelessly steals this idea, and will live by it.</ref> | #'''"''You'' can edit this page right now" is a core guiding check on everything that we do.''' We must respect this principle as sacred. <ref>This line is lifted straight from Wikipedia. Encyc shamelessly steals this idea, and will live by it.</ref> | ||
# '''The Encyc MediaWiki uses MediaWiki software''' - and has essentially no control in how this software develops or changes | # '''The Encyc MediaWiki uses MediaWiki software''' - the world's most popular, and has essentially no control in how this software develops or changes. | ||
# '''The Encyc MediaWiki uses the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike License''' - to be compatible with Wikipedia, because we believe in sharing free content. | # '''The Encyc MediaWiki uses the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike License''' - to be compatible with Wikipedia, because we believe in sharing free content. | ||
# '''Encyc has no official mailing list''' - because MediaWiki is sufficient for us to communicate. I will not suppress lists if users make them. | # '''Encyc has no official mailing list''' - because MediaWiki is sufficient for us to communicate. I will not suppress lists if users make them. | ||
Revision as of 09:15, 19 November 2009
This is a statement of principles from Encyc founder Emperor[1]. It is modeled on Jimbo Wales' Statement of principles on Wikipedia.
- We need free content - Contributors who donate their time by offering quality writing are to be appreciated.
- Administrators are here to provide a safe, pleasant working environment - They are not to use their powers to win content disputes.
- "You can edit this page right now" is a core guiding check on everything that we do. We must respect this principle as sacred. [2]
- The Encyc MediaWiki uses MediaWiki software - the world's most popular, and has essentially no control in how this software develops or changes.
- The Encyc MediaWiki uses the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike License - to be compatible with Wikipedia, because we believe in sharing free content.
- Encyc has no official mailing list - because MediaWiki is sufficient for us to communicate. I will not suppress lists if users make them.
- Complaints are looked at as valuable feedback - but nobody has to listen to them if they don't want to.
- Encyc is meant to be readable - Ideally I'm thinking of something about as readable as USA Today, a general-interest newspaper that a high school student can read and enjoy. I dislike jargon, academic terms, and other language that gets in the way of effective communication.
- The Management shall stay out of the way - Wikis work best as communities of equals.
- Encyc should not hurt people - Users are discouraged from publishing personal information or conducting extended campaigns to present living people in a bad light.
- Encyc is a general-interest encyclopedia, but it is also not paper - Users should be given wide latitude to express themselves
- Encyc wiki code should be understandable by a layperson - Encyc shall not lose the wiki-way and make editing a page something that only a computer programmer feels comfortable doing.
- Encyc strives to be as inclusive as possible - Want to write an article about your favorite Pokemon or your cousin's landscaping business? Go ahead.