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An Act of Wiki is a statute of the legislative body of the Wikipedia community. Enacting an Act of Wiki is the most careful, inclusive, and deliberative policymaking in which the Wikipedia community will engage.
An Act of Wiki may result in the establishment of a Wikipedia policy or guideline, although other processes may establish those rules. Although an Act of Wiki may establish a rule of less importance and impact than a Wikipedia guideline, in general, no one should expect for the Wikipedia community to go through the process of passing an Act of Wiki for anything less weighty than a Wikipedia guideline.
If anyone proposes an outrageous idea, then a fair response is "It would take an Act of Wiki for Wikipedia to adopt that idea." If someone expects extraordinary bureaucracy as a prerequisite to their support for a small idea, then a fair response is "We do not need an Act of Wiki for Wikipedia to adopt that idea."