User:Roux/Constitution

The Wikipedia Constitution is an attempt to codify the structure of Wikipedia, the rights of Wikipedians, and lay out a framework for changes of the same.

Founding Principles

 * From Meta:Founding Principles

The Wikimedia projects as a community have certain founding principles. These principles may evolve or be refined over time, but they are considered ideals essential to the founding of the Wikimedia projects – not to be confused with the Wikimedia Foundation (which also arose from the Wikimedia projects). People who strongly disagree with them sometimes end up leaving the project.

These principles include:


 * 1) Neutral point of view as a guiding editorial principle,
 * 2) The ability of anyone to edit (most) articles without registration,
 * 3) The "wiki process" and discussion with other editors as the final decision-making mechanism for all content.
 * 4) Free licensing of content; in practice defined by each project as public domain, GFDL, CC-BY-SA or CC-BY.
 * 5) Maintaining room for fiat to help resolve particularly difficult problems.  By convention, Jimbo Wales and later Arbitration Committees retain certain authority on en:wp (and other wikis set up similar frameworks) -- to make binding, final decisions such as banning an editor.

Wikipedia expands on the above principles, referring to them as the Five Pillars. All policies, guidelines, and community norms must ultimately derive from or support these core beliefs.

Definitions

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Charter of Rights and Responsibilities

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Role of the WikiMedia Foundation

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Role of Jimbo Wales

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Role of the Community

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Judiciary
For lack of a better term, someone have one?

Dispute resolution

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Role of the Arbitration Committee

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Role of the Mediation Committee

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Role of Administrators

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Role of Administrators

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Role of Bureaucrats

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Role of CheckUsers

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Role of Oversighters

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Role of Stewards

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