I've been looking at Development guidelines, Development policy and the related templates, and I'm not sure I got this right. Is an RfC on this wiki the way to declare something as official (say, turning a page from Category:Essays into a guideline/policy)? Given that the software is developed collaboratively not just by WMF staff, who makes sure that rules are followed by devs? Thanks. (pinging @AKlapper (WMF) - @SSethi (WMF) who may have or point to an answer)
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Might be Technical Decision Forum (but hard to follow, indeed).
I mean, edits like https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Inclusive_language&type=revision&diff=4781353&oldid=4603169 seem to suggest anyone can just slap a template on a page (and the template wording itself seems to corroborate this idea...).
All the template says is "This page documents a MediaWiki development guideline, crafted over time by developer consensus (or sometimes by proclamation from a lead developer)".
Given the people who have edited that page, the template seems like a fair description of it.
If its supposed to be a binding policy on developers (and not just on wiki), i would suggest wikitech-l discussion. I dont think enough people pay attention to on wiki stuff that a pure on wiki discussion should count for anything.
I dont think there has been much "official policy" for the wiki in the past. Code of conduct is the only one that comes to mind.
Thanks a lot, Bawolff.