Meta:Policies and guidelines

This is an index of policies and guidelines, organised by their scope. Most pages linked below are policies. Some are explicitly marked as guidelines.

All Wikimedia projects

Link	Description	Scope
Terms of use	This describes the general conditions and mutual responsibilities that all users must agree with, before using Wikimedia projects and sites, or reusing their content.
Universal Code of Conduct	This defines a minimum set of guidelines of expected and unacceptable behaviour. It applies to everyone who interacts and contributes to online and offline Wikimedia projects and spaces.
No open proxies	This prohibits users from editing Wikimedia projects through open or anonymous proxies.
Privacy policy	The WMF privacy policy.
Steward policies	Various policies relevant to Stewards.
Office actions	This covers on-wiki actions taken by official representatives of the Foundation.
Language proposal policy	How to propose opening a new language subdomain of an existing project. Handled by the language committee.
Closing projects policy	This defines the process to close (or delete) a WMF wiki. Proposals are handled by language committee.
Special global permissions	Policy and information about permissions used by System administrators and Ombudsmen.
CheckUser policy	CheckUser access and use.
Oversight policy	Oversight access and use.
Global rollback	The approval process for global rollback access, and guidelines for its use.	see list
Abuse filter helpers	The approval process for global Abuse filter read-only access, and guidelines for its use.	see list
New wikis importers	The approval process for the new wikis importers global user group, and guidelines for its use.
Global bans	The process for the formal revocation of editing privileges across all Wikimedia wikis.
Password policy	Password requirements for users of Wikimedia wikis.

Meta-Wiki

Link	Description
Administrator policies	Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki administrators.
Bot policy	Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki bots.
Bureaucrat policies	Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki bureaucrats.
Civility policy	Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki civility and urbanity.
Deletion policy	The process and rules for page deletion.
Inclusion policy	Types of pages that are acceptable or unacceptable on this Wiki.
Interface administrators	Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki interface administrators.
Anti "snowball" policy	Prohibits speedy closure of discussions at this project.
Meta-Steward relationship	Outlines the relationship between elected staff at Meta-Wiki and the Stewards.
Flood flag	[guideline] The purpose and acceptable use of the "flood" flag.
IP block exemption	[guideline] The purpose, acceptable use and rules regarding the IP block exemption permission.

Some Wikimedia projects

Link	Description	Scope
Bot policy	Approval process for bot access, and guidelines for its use	see list
Global sysops	Information and policies related to global sysops.	see list
Neutral point of view	Information about various 'Neutral point of view' policies.	wp, wb, wn, wikt, wq, ws
Wikinews accreditation policy	The Wikinews policies for granting accreditation, used on certain languages of the Project.	wn