CIS-A2K/Policies and guidelines/Kannada Wikipedia

Kannada Wikipedia was started in June 2003. The main page of the Wikipedia may be seen here. This is the village pump and this is the mailing list.

CIS-A2K

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CIS-A2K (Centre for Internet and Society - Access to Knowledge) is a campaign to promote the fundamental principles of justice, freedom, and economic development. It deals with issues like copyrights, patents and trademarks, which are an important part of the digital landscape.
If you have a general proposal/suggestion for Access to Knowledge team you can write on the discussion page. If you have appreciations or feedback on our work, please share it on feedback page.

Quick links

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List of policies

Kannada Wikipedia

Konkani Wikipedia

Marathi Wikipedia

Odia Wikipedia

Telugu Wikipedia

Checklist

This is a quick checklist:

Area	Check	Kannada Wikipedia	Konkani Wikipedia	Marathi Wikipedia	Odia Wikipedia	Telugu Wikipedia
General Site Config	Main page protection	Y	N Details	Y	Y	Y
	Main page sections	Y	Y Somehow	Y	Y	Y
Discussion channels	Village pump	Y (here)	Y (here)	Y (here)	Y (here)	Y (here)
	Mailing list	Y (here)	N We're working	Y (here)	Y (here)	Y (here)
Policies and guidelines		Please see this separate page for details.
Process	Featured article	This will be analyzed in separate sections/sub-pages
	Good article	This will be analyzed in separate sections/sub-pages
	Did you know	This will be analyzed in separate sections/sub-pages
	Request for adminship

Issues and tasks

Disadvantages of having strict policies

A disadvantage of having strict policy is editors often stop editing if they are scolded and pointed towards policy. In June-July 3 editors stopped editing for this reason. For small Wikipedias it is an issue.

Policies to be created

In previous meet-ups and during the Kannada Wikipedians meet-up on 21 June, User:Pavanaja made a list of policies which need to be created: Content policies

• Neutral point of view
• No Original Research
• Verifiability

June 21 Kannada Wikipedia meetup

• Biography of living persons
  • Notability
  • Conflict of Interest
• Article title
• Image policy
  • Fair use policy (This will include maximum image size eg. 1000px*1000px limit)
  • Copyrighted images (similar to Fair use)
  • Kannada Wikipedians are discussing if this can be made a policy: images without EXIF data will be deleted
• Deletion policy
• Blocking policy