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{{Essay | specifiedcategory = Essays related to Wikimedia{{#translation:}}}}
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This page is about '''community''', about interactions between users through wiki projects. Formerly this page opened with the question “Is Wikipedia really a community?” Now, the situation is much broader.

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[[File:Wikipedia community.png|thumb|right|This obsolete diagram shows not-Wikipedia projects as part of the Wikipedia community. It is obsolete because such projects attract users who are not from Wikipedia, and users who contribute much more to those projects than they do to Wikipedia.]]

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[[File:Wikimedia community.png|thumb|right|This is an attempt to show a Wikimedia community partitioned into different projects, perhaps ignoring that some users contribute to multiple projects.]]

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[[<tvar|participation>File:2004 WMF Election participation2.png|thumb|right</>|Users from <tvar|ENWP><bdi>enwiki</bdi></>, <tvar|DEWP><bdi>dewiki</bdi></>, and <tvar|FRWP><bdi>frwiki</bdi></> effectively own the [[<tvar|election>Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_elections/2004</>|2004 Board election]]. Click image to zoom.]]

== Body risk == <!--T:5-->

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An early claim was that {{<tvar|wikipedia>ll|Wikipedia</>|Wikipedia}} is not a community because it does not share body risk. The pseudonyms and IP addresses do not correspond to real people; it is unlikely a community could be built on virtual people maybe. Because the not-Wikipedia projects also allow pseudonyms and IP addresses, they have the same situation.

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One idea for Wikipedia is to build a free encyclopedia together through the common goal of building a free encyclopedia. However, a community goes beyond the simple sharing of a simplified vision, and includes common community values. In 2012, English Wikipedia appears to have common values as well: [[en:WP:GF|assume good faith]], [[en:WP:PA|no personal attacks]], [[en:WP:NPV|NPOV disputes]], and user talk templates. {{<tvar|wikinews>ll|Wikinews</>|Wikinews}} also has those four attributes, but not in the same manner. In not-Wikipedia, not-Wikinews projects, NPOV disputes and user talk templates appear to be much less important.

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Perhaps Wikipedia and Wikinews are more like families than communities. One does not choose a family, but belongs to it. However, a [[wikt:family|family]] is a cultural idea that varies worldwide, so this paragraph may be incomprehensible to some peoples.

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Some users remain bothered by the notion that {{<tvar|wikimedians>ll|Wikimedian</>|Wikimedians}} cannot constitute a community because they do not share body risks. If we only consider those Wikimedians who are humans, we are all part of at least one community: the human community. Right now, we are all sharing the risks of being hurt or killed, by war, AIDS, or by poor atmospheric quality. In biological terms, a community is a group from one species living together and strongly interrelated. Communities cause a mixture of benefits and disadvantages; communities are stable when, over time, both the whole community and the individuals that make it up benefit. Diversity and communality both play roles in community.

== Wikibooks and partition == <!--T:10-->

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Wikibooks is a special case. The project divides itself into multiple, autonomous book projects. [[b:en|English Wikibooks]], in particular, is lacking a mechanism to repel new book projects that are outside the scope of Wikibooks, given by a [[b:en:WB:WIW|official enforced policy]].

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Wikisource likes uniformity: a single standard [[s:en:Template:Header|Header template]] on English Wikisource introduces most texts.

== Can the Wikipedia community become a Wikimedia community? == <!--T:13-->

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It is already so. For example, we have {{ll|IRC channel cloaks|IRC channel cloaks}} for different Wikimedia projects, and we also have "wikimedia/" cloaks. At least on Freenode, we can have a Wikimedia community.

== See also == <!--T:15-->

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* {{ll|The Wikipedia Community}}
* {{ll|False community|False community}}
* {{ll|IRC channels|IRC channels}}
* [[:Image:2004 WMF Election participation2.png]] ''image showing "community"''
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[[Category:Community{{#translation:}}|Community]]<!-- this essay is not the main article of this category -->

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