Wiktionary:Index to policies

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Index

This page includes various indexes to policies in Wiktionary.

Voted official policies

This is an auto-generated list of policies which have gone through a community consensus test:


Other guidelines

This is an auto-generated list of articles which represent discussions about how things are, or should be, done. Not all of these represent a community consensus, yet these attempts to codify current practice are as close to policy as has so far been necessary.

Wiktionary think tank policies

Other guidance

Contributors occasionally write articles which offer their perspective on elements of English Wiktionary, community, or working within the free-knowledge movement. Some of these are categorized in this auto-generated listing:

No pages meet these criteria.

"How things are done" on Wiktionary is a constantly changing, evolving thing. So are "informative pages" which occasionally are created to answer a perceived need or community interest, yet may eventually lose their purpose or motivation. Sometimes policy flexibly evolves to continuously describe as things morph, other times new practices displace old. Here is an auto-generated list of inactive guidelines:

Inactive pages

Useful pages

This section is manually maintained, and has therefore fallen out of date. It includes links to various useful, specific, or out-of-date guidance, help, and policy pages. Explore at your own risk, and update links and concepts as you find need:

(NB: the status key should be redeveloped. Some of these articles should be marked as inactive, others as essays. )

account
Why create an account? (PI)
abbreviations
Policy - Abbreviations (DP)
administration
Wiktionary:Blocking policy
Wiktionary:Protected page guidelines
American
American or British Spelling (TT)
archaic terms
Obsolete and Archaic Terms (DP)
assume good faith
Assume good faith (DP)
blocking
Blocking policy (TT)
British
American or British Spelling (TT)
Cantonese
About Chinese (TT)
case
Beer parlour/case-sensitivity vote (TT)
Wiktionary:Redirections#Redirecting_between_lowercase_and_uppercase_
Chinese languages other than Mandarin
About Chinese (TT)
civility
Civility (DP)
criteria for inclusion
Criteria for inclusion (SO)
dated terms
Obsolete and Archaic Terms (DP)
deletion
Page deletion guidelines (SO)
dispute resolution
Dispute resolution (TT)
formatting
Formatting Policy Proposal (RP)
historical terms
Obsolete and Archaic Terms (DP)
Japanese
About Japanese (TT)
About Japanese/Transliteration (DP)
no personal attacks
No personal attacks (DP)
obsolete terms
Obsolete and Archaic Terms (DP)
policy on policies
Policies and Guidelines - Policy (SO)
redirections
Redirections (TT)
Shanghainese
About Chinese (TT)
spelling
American or British Spelling (TT)
Standard Written Chinese
About Chinese (TT)
style
Wiktionary:Style guide
Taiwanese
About Chinese (TT)
templates
Policy -Templates (TT)
Using templates (PI)
thesaurus
Thesaurus considerations (TT)
translations
Translations/Wikification (TT)
Translations (TT)
transliteration
Transliteration (DP)
Wiktionary talk:Transliteration (TT)
About Japanese/Transliteration (DP)
unfashionable terms
Obsolete and Archaic Terms (DP)
Unified Wiktionary
Project - Unified Wiktionary outreach (PI)
Usage
Usage notes (TT)
Verification
Verifiability (TT)

Status key:

  • PI = Policy Implications
  • TT = Think Tank
  • DP = Draft / Proposal
  • SO = Semi Official
  • O = Official
  • RP = Rejected Policy

See also

  • The Meta-Wikipedia site contains many articles about Wikipedia and related topics in a more editorial style.