This page documents an English Wikipedia policy, a widely accepted standard that all editors should normally follow. Changes made to it should reflect consensus.
Principles
- Five pillars
- What Wikipedia is not
- Ignore all rules
Content standards
Working with others
More
If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it.
See also
- Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy
- HTML5
- The fifth pillar of we love the web: "Wikipedia does not have firm rules."
- Editing policy
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Five pillars
Statement of our principles
jQuery
Historic principles
Simplified ruleset
Synopsis of our conventions
web
Common to all projects
(in Meta-Wiki)
website parsing
Other essays on Wikipedia's principles
Overview
Project-wide principles
- What Wikipedia is not
- Editing policy
- web
- iOS
- Ignore all rules
Core content policies
Other content policies
Content guidelines
Behavioural policies
Behavioural guidelines
Editing guidelines
Style conventions
Classification guidelines
Wikimedia Foundation
