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Thinking about this as it relates to individual wiki and yes, this specific wiki. | Thinking about this as it relates to individual wiki and yes, this specific wiki. It may be hard to define, but we might know what it feels like. Most wikis' rules about what is on- or off-topic are implied by the [[about page]], which describes the wiki's purpose. There may also be an explicit "Inclusion policy" or "What this wiki is not" page stating what content is acceptable and unacceptable. Sometimes there are dissident users who advocate a "[[wikipedia:Project:Wikipedia is a community|This wiki is a community]]" policy, but they tend not to prevail in completing eliminating the banning of some off-topic content from the wiki. Sometimes people advocate [[wikipedia:Benign neglect|benign neglect]] of the issue, thinking that off-topic discussions will tend to peter out on their own if left alone for awhile. | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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*http://www.communitywiki.org/en/OnAndOffTopic | *http://www.communitywiki.org/en/OnAndOffTopic | ||
*[[wikipedia:Off topic]] | *[[wikipedia:Off topic]] | ||
===Rules=== | |||
*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project:About | |||
*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project:Inclusion_policy | |||
*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project:What_Meta_is_not | |||
*[[mw:Project:About#What_MediaWiki.org_is_not]] | |||
*[[wikipedia:Project:Writing_better_articles#Stay_on_topic]] | *[[wikipedia:Project:Writing_better_articles#Stay_on_topic]] | ||
*[[wikipedia:Project:Talk_page_guidelines#Others.27_comments]] | *[[wikipedia:Project:Talk_page_guidelines#Others.27_comments]] | ||
*[[wikipedia:Project:User_pages#Excessive_unrelated_content]] | *[[wikipedia:Project:User_pages#Excessive_unrelated_content]] | ||
*[[wikipedia:Project:Refactoring talk pages]] | *[[wikipedia:Project:Refactoring talk pages]] | ||
Revision as of 09:10, 19 March 2014
Thinking about this as it relates to individual wiki and yes, this specific wiki. It may be hard to define, but we might know what it feels like. Most wikis' rules about what is on- or off-topic are implied by the about page, which describes the wiki's purpose. There may also be an explicit "Inclusion policy" or "What this wiki is not" page stating what content is acceptable and unacceptable. Sometimes there are dissident users who advocate a "This wiki is a community" policy, but they tend not to prevail in completing eliminating the banning of some off-topic content from the wiki. Sometimes people advocate benign neglect of the issue, thinking that off-topic discussions will tend to peter out on their own if left alone for awhile.
External links
- http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/OffTopic
- http://www.communitywiki.org/en/OnAndOffTopic
- wikipedia:Off topic
Rules
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project:About
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project:Inclusion_policy
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project:What_Meta_is_not
- mw:Project:About#What_MediaWiki.org_is_not
- wikipedia:Project:Writing_better_articles#Stay_on_topic
- wikipedia:Project:Talk_page_guidelines#Others.27_comments
- wikipedia:Project:User_pages#Excessive_unrelated_content
- wikipedia:Project:Refactoring talk pages