Wikipedia:Differences between the English Wikipedia and Wikipedias in other languages

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This essay is supposed to document things (such as processes, for instance) that are different from the English language Wikipedia in other Wikipedias.

German

• They have a Trust network. Users have a "formal way of declaring their confidence in other users."

Portuguese

• There is a system for de-sysopping people that is like the RfAs.
• There are votes to decide which articles will be deleted. For an article to be deleted, it needs 2/3 of votes.
• Lists have a different domain, called "Anexo". This featured was copied from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Polish

• Fair-use images are not permitted, all images must be uploaded to Commons.
• Users are generally not allowed to remove (blank) comments even from their own talk pages.
• With regards to notability, habilitation is sufficient to meet WP:NPROF.
• When citing sources at the end of the sentence the period is put after the reference tags, not before them.
• Because the Wikipedia has fewer volunteers, there are fewer talk page discussions. Instead many topics are discussed in the Village Pump-equivalent style noticeboards.

Russian

• When citing sources at the end of the sentence the period is put after the reference tags, not before them.

Spanish

• Lists have a different domain, called "Anexo". For example, the list of countries is located in es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Países del mundo.
• There are no separate stati for administrators and bureaucrats.
• Fair-use images are not permitted, all images must be uploaded to Commons.

Swedish

• Fair-use images are not permitted, all images must be uploaded to Commons.
• 68.5 percent (as of October 2022) of articles on Swedish language Wikipedia are bot-generated, mostly by Lsjbot, covering topics related to animals and geography.
• Content at risk of bias or recentism has more often been deleted on svwp than on enwp, for example premature articles about ongoing events or content of criticism/reactions sections, although Wikipedia should reflect many POV:s. It is considered difficult for such a small group of active contributors to keep such content in balance. Names of Swedish or Finnish suspects or convicts are not unveiled before it is published in Swedish-language Media, which are restrictive with name-publishing before the verdict is final, also if it is published in international press.
• In practice, weasel words are often tolerated, although grammatical "fluff" should be replaced by explicit attribution according to the Swedish Manual of Style.