Wikimedia projects have certain founding principles in common.
These principles may evolve or be refined over time, but they
are considered ideals essential to the founding of the Wikimedia
projects – not to be confused with the Wikimedia Foundation
(which also arose from the Wikimedia projects). People who
strongly disagree with them are nonetheless expected to either
respect them while collaborating on the site or turn to another
site. Those unable or unwilling sometimes end up leaving the
project. These principles include: - Neutral point of view
(NPOV) as a guiding editorial principle. - The ability of almost
anyone to edit (most) articles without registration. - The "wiki
process" as the final decision-making mechanism for all content.
- The creation of a welcoming and collegial editorial
environment. - Free licensing of content; in practice defined by
each project as public domain, GFDL, CC-BY-SA or CC-BY. -
Maintaining room for fiat to help resolve particularly difficult
problems. On the English Wikipe