Talk:Wikivoyage/Migration/FAQ/Proposed Policy Hierarchy Archive

The first proposed policy hierarchy

(from 21 Aug 2012)

1.0 Guiding Principles

• Goals and non-goals
• The traveller comes first
• Consensus
• Plunge forward

2.0 Core Content Policies

• Be fair
• Don't tout
• Tone

(note - I separated these seven policies out because I think they're the most important big-picture policies we have)

3.0 Community Policies

3.1 Unwanted Edits

• How to handle unwanted edits
• Edit war

3.2 Links

• External links
• Internal links
• Inter-language links
• Links to Wikipedia
• Links to Open Directory

3.3 Specific Community Policies

• Sex tourism policy
• Illegal activities policy
• Deletion policy
• Protected page policy
• Image policy
• Privacy rights (possible VFD - seems to be people in photos, which is already covered in Image policy)
• Main Page guidelines
• Sock puppets
• Using talk pages

3.4 Roles within the Community

• Hierarchy
• Administrators
• Experts

3.5 Cooperating with other Websites

• all of the various "cooperating with..." pages

3.6 Infrastructure and Software

• Technical infrastructure policy
• Script policy
• Using Mediawiki templates

4.0 Organization of the Wiki

4.1 Hierarchy of Articles

• Geographical hierarchy
• Other ways to see travel

4.2 Creating Articles

• What is an article?
• Naming conventions
• Bodies of water
• Disambiguation pages

4.3 Structuring Articles

• Article templates
• Article templates/Sections
• Section headers (possibly redundant, or revised and included in MoS)
• Avoid long lists (the 7+2 rule, which doesn't seem to have it's own policy page... or maybe I'm missing it)
• Information boxes
• Listings
• One-liner listings

4.4 Specific Content Policies

• Rental listings
• Tour operators
• Information for gay and lesbian travellers
• Routebox navigation

4.5 Article Status

• Article status
• Star nominations

5.0 Legal Information

5.1 Terms of Use

• Cookies
• Privacy policy
• Terms of use

5.2 Licencing and Redistribution

• Copyleft
• CC-by-sa
• Copyright details
• Non-compliant redistribution
• Dual licencing
• Full text of CC-BY-SA 3.0
• Full text of GFDL 1.2

6.0 Manual of Style

6.1 Content

• Avoid HTML
• Avoid negative reviews
• Don't overlink
• Neutrality of the medium
• No advice from Captain Obvious
• Geocoding

6.2 Language

• Abbreviations
• Use of pronouns (combine existing 1st and 2nd person policies into one)
• Foreign words
• Romanization
• Spelling
• Trademarks

6.3 Numbers and Dates

• Currency
• Time & date formats
• Measurements
• When to use dates

6.4 Formatting

• Creating emphasis (combine existing bold and italic policies)
• Phone numbers

Let me know what you think. Cheers -Shaund 05:08, 21 August 2012 (UTC)