Wiktionary:Index to policies
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:
- Wiktionary:Be bold in updating pages
- Wiktionary:Tamil transliteration
- Wiktionary:Names of organizations
- Wiktionary:Collocations
- Wiktionary:Phrasebook
- Wiktionary:Wikidata policy
- Wiktionary:Matched-pair entries
- Wiktionary:Entry layout
- Wiktionary:Normalization of entries
- Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion
- Wiktionary:About sign languages
- Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion/Fictional universes
- Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion/Brand names
- Wiktionary:Blocking policy
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.
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:
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This section is manually maintained, and has therefore fallen out of date. It includes links to various useful, specific, or out-of-date guidance, help, and policy pages.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.