User:ChristianKl/Draft:Jurisdiction within Wikidata

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English for Policy[edit]

English is the primary language in which new policy is made. Translations of the policy are useful for users of other languages to understand our policy but when in doubt the English original policy take precedence.

Jurisdiction for between Languages for Labels, Descriptions and Aliases[edit]

Different languages have different customs about how they name entities. Via the principle of subsidiarity the subcommunity within Wikidata for every language can chose their own guidelines for the text in Labels, Descriptions and Aliases which are found on Help:Label/[Language Code], Help:Descriptions/[Language Code] and Help:Aliases/[Language Code].

Jurisdiction between Wikimedia projects[edit]

When it comes to labels, descriptions, alias and statements of Wikidata items, properties and lexemes and the respective talk pages, Wikidata is responsible for deciding the content. That means Wikidata policies and consensus found within Wikidata governs that content, even if particular content is added via gadgets that are hosted on other Wikimedia projects.

Sitelinks[edit]

When it comes to sitelinks the Wikimedia project to which the sitelink goes decides with which page it wants it's sitelinks to be associated. This doesn't mean that the project can decide about what Wikidata items are notable but as long as a Wikidata item exists the Wikimedia project can decide that they want to have a certain page linked to that item. Usually, that means when there are different opinions about how a page should be linked the discussion page of the page is the venue where the debate that seeks consensus is to be held. That means language of the discussion is determined by the language of the given Wikimedia project to which the sitelink goes.

Wikiprojects[edit]

For internal consistency it's useful when certain parts of Wikidata are modeled with consistent guidelines.

Jurisdiction of Wikiprojects[edit]

Instances of second-order class (Q24017414) should be tagged with maintained by WikiProject (P6104) to specify to which Wikiproject they belong. If an item doesn't have itself a maintained by WikiProject (P6104) statement it should be treated as inherenting the maintained by WikiProject (P6104) via instance of (P31). For contentious issues Requests for Comments can overrule the local consensus at a Wikiproject

Powers of Wikiprojects[edit]

Wikiprojects can decide via consensus on their talk pages for items under their jurisdiction on:

  1. naming guidelines for consistent labels/descriptions/aliases
  2. how properties should be used to model certain information

Via the principle of subsidiarity, when in conflict with guidelines in Help:Label, Help:Descriptions or Help:Aliases and the guidlines by Wikiproject that has jurisdiction, the guidlines of the Wikiproject take precedent.