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This will be very interesting to observe because it might apply western concepts of good behaviour to a global audience. Previously it let different chapters, different parts of the world behave differently. In effect Wikimedia should want to allow users who are actual signed up Fascists in their countries to contribute to their project, whilst also ensuring they behave themselves.

To me, (most probably because the language of this has been shaped by progressive politics in the west and the article is written in English and Wikimedia is primarily English speaking) this might well be an experiment with applying the western, middle class, highly educated, liberal and progressive values which really do work well on monocultural programming and tech communities to a really globally diverse and actual multi cultural project.

There really is no other global project like this which spans and crosses actual cultures and languages. None.

This will be fascinating to watch, I hope they get it right, or at least publish their failings if they don't.

>>thinki+(OP)
> western, middle class, highly educated, liberal and progressive values which really do work well

Says who? Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic folks, of course. Don't get me wrong, there is an underlying reality behind the oft-repeated claims of 'Whig history' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history . In particular, democratic and classical liberal values seem to do an unusually good job of de-escalating unwanted social conflict: NPOV (as known on Wikipedia) is at its root a "liberal" idea, not an authoritarian or intolerant one! But these overbroad claims should always be treated with plenty of caution.